Birds I'm Watching: California Quail Babies

I startled a male California quail this morning and set him off, exhorting his chicks to take cover. These are the first chicks I've seen so far this year. I saw only three, but heard more. They are tiny. They've probably just hatched in the last day or two. Later saw the whole brood. There are about twelve babies--for the time being. They tend to disappear--to cats, to crows, to hawks....

Lately I've seen a fair number of acorn woodpeckers trying to get seed from the feeder and the usual Nuttal's woodpeckers there as well.