-=> Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 29-Jul-2018 03:06 <=-   
      
    NB>> Our county is officially in a drought state   
      
    MK> No official word on drought here but it wouldn't surpise anyone if   
    MK> they do make the call soon.  As for the interior mainland there are   
    MK> far too many wildfires going but they are being deemed as the new   
    MK> normal.  Not as bad as last year but that could change in the drop of   
    MK> a hat.    
      
   Thankfully wildfires are very rare in these parts... but I know our West   
   Coast is beseiged with them... pretty scary ones, too...  Meanwhile   
   we've been getting some rain, and forecasts daily for more, so hopefully   
   that turns the tide, and doesn't overbalance...   
      
    MK> Weird but I still haven't seen any of the female quails and their   
    MK> chicks yet. Since May I have only seen two lonely looking male quail   
    MK> standing at the side of the road at different times, one in early June   
    MK> and the second one a couple weeks later.  Offhand I think all the   
    MK> additional staycationers might be the reason for the hightened shyness   
    MK> of the quail.  The nearest neighbour claims to have heard them in the   
    MK> brambles again but didn't actually see any of them, not even a   
    MK> spotter.  This is the first summer I haven't spotted any for this   
    MK> length of time.    
      
   Weather might play into it, too. I suppose... Hopefully they are just   
   being shy, and everything is ok with them...  More people around could   
   account for their reluctance to be out in the open, tis true... :)   
      
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