Covey of quail

Last time I saw a covey of quail (or "bobwhites" as they are also known) I had won a summer part time job in the Republican held Brookhaven Town Parks Department in the bicentennial year (summer of draught in Britain). I was raking rocks out of and helping spread calcium chloride (keeps fugitive dust at bay) and lime-lining a night-lit baseball field in North Bellport, NY, out on Long Island where the "bar leagues" played their slowpitch games, in a predominately black part of town. They had the "summer job lottery" to counter the charge that they were "nepotists" for summer jobs, going to party members kin only. Out past the 1st base foul line, was a covey of quail. Bellport, settled first by ship salvers, was once a produce exporter to NYC before a passage through Fire Island closed up by shipwreck.