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Great day for a walk. #TopknotTuesday #Dogsky #DogsOfBluesky
April 1, 2025 at 11:48 AM
azgibsonz.bsky.social
🌿Quail post🌿

🪶 #TopknotTuesday
The cholla patch sure seems less harsh and much more friendly in bokeh as a background for this male Gambel's Quail standing watch on a weathered fence post.
March 9, 2026 at 10:47 PM
azgibsonz.bsky.social
Good morning Bluesky! 💙

May your #TopknotTuesday be filled with the wonders of Nature! 🕉️

📸 Gambel's Quail 🪶🌿
Close up profile of a male Gambel's Quail in the sunlight showing the details of his face and topknot
December 10, 2024 at 1:30 PM
skipdodoubleg.bsky.social
Fun in the sun today! #TongueOutTuesday
#TopknotTuesday
#DogsOfBluesky
February 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
azgibsonz.bsky.social
Two quail, one rock...

...because it's #TopKnotTuesday and #RockinTuesday! 🤘

📸 Gambel's Quail lovebirbs 🪶🌿

#BirdLovers
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#Birding
A mated pair of Gambel's Quail backlit on a boulder in the Mojave Desert.
October 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
azgibsonz.bsky.social
When someone asks you
"what's wrong?"
but nothing's wrong,
that's just how your face looks

#TopKnotTuesday 🪶
#LookingAtYou
#Quail
The Gambel's Quail I showed you last week...looking at you. Look it up.
February 23, 2026 at 11:43 PM
azgibsonz.bsky.social
Love is the bridge
between you
and everything.
~Rumi

🕉️

📸 Gambel's Quail 🪶🌿

#TwosDay
#TopKnotTuesday
#Photography
#BirdLovers
#Quail
Two lovebirds...er, Gambel's Quail appear to cross topknots, canoodling. It's a word.
March 3, 2026 at 1:38 AM
azgibsonz.bsky.social
“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
~Emily Dickinson

🪶

#ImageAndVerse
#TopknotTuesday
#EastCoastKin
#Photography
#Quail
A Gambel's Quail male in profile.
July 13, 2026 at 9:19 PM
azgibsonz.bsky.social
Yesterday I was clever,
so I wanted to change the world.

Today I am wise,
so I am changing myself.
~Rumi

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📸 Gambel's Quail 🪶

#TopKnotTuesday
#EastCoastKin
#Photography
#BirdLovers
#Quail
A striking male Gambel's Quail in profile fills half the frame while leaning over the edge of my fence.
March 31, 2026 at 3:07 AM
azgibsonz.bsky.social
Finally... #TwosDay, in this case #TopknotTuesday. 🪶

📸 Callipepla gambelii, times two 💞

#Birds #Birding #BirdPhotography
Male and female Gambel's Quail, both a little upset I'm taking their picture.
December 3, 2024 at 3:39 PM
azgibsonz.bsky.social
Good morning Bluesky! 🌡️🐦📸

I just saw 25°F on the app...

...so you get a bonus #TopKnotTuesday! 🪶

📸 Gambel's Quail #borb #borbalert

#Birds #Birding #BirdPhotography 🌿
The already-pear-shaped Gambel's Quail takes on extra dimension in the chilly morning air
January 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
azgibsonz.bsky.social
And his hair was perfect.
~Warren Zevon

🕉️ ...enough said. 🌿

📸 Callipepla gambelii 🪶

#TopKnotTuesday
#Photography
#BirdLovers
An intimate profile of a male Gambel's Quail standing juuuust this side of the shade for some fortuitous golden hour lighting...and Zen.
September 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
azgibsonz.bsky.social
🏆 Since I didn't actually check, I'll say I think this was my most popular Quail this year...or QOTY! 🪶

🕉️ May your New Year be filled with the wonders of Nature! 🤘😶‍🌫️

PEACE! ☮️

#TopKnotTuesday #Birds #Birding #BirdPhotography
A male Gambel's Quail standing still in good light, a rare sight...
December 31, 2024 at 1:45 PM
azgibsonz.bsky.social
Timeline cleanse...

🐥🌼🌿 Baby #borb... #LookingAtYou!

...and #TopKnotTuesday! 🪶🪶

📸 Callipepla gambelii, aka Gambel's Quail

#BorbAlert
#EastCoastKin
#BirdLovers
#Photography
#TinyTuesday
A proud papa Gambel's Quail looks on from the wildflower patch as his borby chick glares back at its first human...probably. Look at that little ball of fluff!!
January 27, 2026 at 3:18 AM
azgibsonz.bsky.social
🚨 #BorbAlert... on #TopKnotTuesday! 🪶

📸 Gambel's Quail ♂️

#BirdLovers
#Photography
It's the desert...how cold can it be? Just cold enough to get a Gambel's Quail in full on borb mode, apparently... Zen birding.
September 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
azgibsonz.bsky.social
Natural framing... 🫶

...meets #TopKnotTuesday! 🤘😆

Have a sweet one quail-peeps!! 🌿🐦🌿

📸 Callipepla gambelii, aka Gambel's Quail 🪶

#Quail
#Birding
#BirdLovers
#Photography
When a skittish male Gambel's Quail peeks at you through a 'window' in the bare branches with the Mojave Desert as a background you call it natural framing.
January 6, 2026 at 12:54 AM
azgibsonz.bsky.social
Today's #birding...

...tomorrow's #TopKnotTuesday. 🪶

📸 Gambel's Quail male, enjoys photography and long walks in the desert 🌿
Poor guy's all alone, so I told him I would put the word out. A handsome Gambel's Quail wondering if I know any single hens on the block.
August 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM
azgibsonz.bsky.social
Oh man... someone went and put a topknot on their dog.

I had the whole #TopKnotTuesday hashtag to myself until today! 🤘😂

📸 Gambel's Quail 🪶

#Birding #Birds #BirdPhotography
Just the face of male Gambel's Quail in profile...with a little photobomb from a hen trying to get into frame with him.
February 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
azgibsonz.bsky.social
If I told you this is Pumpkin and Honey Bunny... 🪶🪶

...would you get that reference? 🐦💘🐦 #TwosDay

#TopKnotTuesday #BirdPhotography #Birds #Birding
Mr. and Mrs. Gambel's Quail walking towards the camera together in the open...because neither one of them have seen me yet.
February 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
azgibsonz.bsky.social
🌿 Quail peeps! #TopKnotTuesday is the same birb I showed you last week, but different. 😏 Look it up.

📸 Callipepla gambelii #119 🪶

#Quail
#BirdLovers
#Photography
#BirdPhotography
From topknot to tailfeathers, a male Gambel's Quail shows off his gorgeous plumage while strutting across my fence in morning light.
December 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
azgibsonz.bsky.social
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
~Henry David Thoreau

🕉️

📸 Gambel's Quail... #lookingatyou 🪶🌿

#TopKnotTuesday
#Photography
#BirdLovers
#Birding
A relatively gregarious male Gambel's Quail is walking toward the camera but with his head turned to the side to keep a good eye on things...
January 13, 2026 at 2:16 AM
azgibsonz.bsky.social
Don't just stand there ffs...

...it's #TopKnotTuesday! 🪶

🌿 Off early, and heading for the hills! Peace!! ✌️
After many tries, I figured out how to manipulate the Gambel's Quail into coming over the fence on the north side of the yard in sweet morning light, and this cute male was the first one to fall for it. Zen.
October 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
azgibsonz.bsky.social
There is a voice
that doesn’t use words,
listen.
~Rumi

🕉️

#TopKnotTuesday 🪶
Gambel's Quail #202, a male, and today's birding, is facing the camera with his head turned to his left and his topknot appears to be sticking straight up as he spots me pointing a lens in his direction.
July 7, 2026 at 2:10 AM
azgibsonz.bsky.social
Me: "Ya know...some humans eat quail for Thanksgiving, bud..."

🪶: "..."

Me: "Not us. Lighten up, Francis..."

🪶: (*inner monologue) "...I'm sooo pooping on your patio furniture..."

🌿 Off early! Have a sweet #TopKnotTuesday! 🤘😶‍🌫️

#LookingAtYou 👁️
#BirdLovers
#Photography
A male Gambel's Quail looks a little surprised he got caught this close up.
November 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
azgibsonz.bsky.social
Meh...

⏰ I'm late to the #openbeak party with the #BirdOfTheDay peeps...

...but early for #TopKnotTuesday! 🤘😶‍🌫️

Yours truly,
Even Steven

📸 Gambel's Quail 🪶🌿

#Quail
#BirdLovers
#Photography
A close up profile of a male Gambel's Quail with his beak open. Note the serrated, or "saw-toothed," edges are for efficiently gripping and breaking up seeds and vegetation, rather than for powerful cracking.
February 2, 2026 at 8:11 PM