SFist Photo: The Partridge Family of San Francisco

They are well matched to the ground cover. From left: Shirley (the mother), Keith, Laurie, Danny, Chris, and Tracy take a break after foraging for food at the Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park.

Wait a minute, these babies are actually newly-hatched California Quail, smaller cousins to partridges. So c'mon, get happy, because we don't have too many representatives of California's state bird left in S.F. Why's that? Well habitat destruction and "feral cat fans and off-leash dog lovers" for starters. Will S.F.'s population of wild quail come back to the level we had back in the day? Let's hope.