MLB was trimming the ground cover on the east side of our yard and when she pulled back a section from the wall, this is what she found:



As perceptive Gazette readers - which is both of you, I believe - will recall, we recently had a family of quail in our back yard, including nine chicks. And I'm pretty sure there are nine hatched eggs in the above photo. So, exercising my excellent deductive skills, I have concluded that this could have been the nest from whence they sprung.
However, I'm not going on record with a conclusive statement because there's always another possibility...

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