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Artist - Janet Fountain |
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Copyright of all artwork belongs to the artist and is registered with Copyright Agency |
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| Title: |
Quail out my back door |
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| Medium: | Acrylic on paper | ||||
| Size (h x w): | 33 x 23 cm (13 x 9") | ||||
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Apr 2025 |
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| Salt Lake City | |||||
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Collection of the Artist |
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Partly based on movement studies of Fox
Squirrels
Every summer a California Quail couple would set up camp under the blackberry patch in our backyard. Often the male quail would stand guard and parade the yard. This disconcerted some of the squirrels and they would chatter warnings, and flail their tails in anger, from their cottonwood perches. The quail couple always established a nest and hatched a horde of little quail chicks. One year the quail male did not return from reconnoitering. The female had to abandon the nest, searching and calling out for him. Another, younger quail couple, took over the blackberry patch a couple of weeks later. The most chicks we could count in one batch was thirteen. But our count may have fallen short of the real number. |
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