One of our bird feeders broke and fell to the ground last week. I spread the seed under the tree the feeder hung from. Since then, a few birds, mostly tits and robins, have been pecking away at it. Imagine my surprise when I looked out the window yesterday and saw this guy enjoying some seed! I grabbed the camera and snapped a few shots before he disappeared.
A male pheasant under the maple trees by our driveway.
A few weeks ago, I saw a pheasant out back, pecking at the ground for tasty morsels, but he wasn't in a spot where I could take a picture. By the way, most of the pheasants we see in and around the vineyard are farm raised, I'm told. They're released into the wild just before the hunting season starts.
A pleasant pheasant with no peasants present... with guns.
ReplyDeleteHeehee
DeleteShe picked the right garden to enjoy, I am sure some of your neighbors would have shot with a different sort of a cannon.
ReplyDeleteAnother well-written verse!
DeleteA handsome fellow!
ReplyDeleteVery cool! I've never seen a pheasant in the wild. My cousin had a stuffed one on the wall of his bedroom for as long as I can remember... probably the first one he ever shot, I guess. I wonder if it's still there!?Ha!
ReplyDeleteIt's fun to see that the house you grew up in is just two houses away from that big Sears No. 188 at 427, that I plopped down in front of yesterday. Here's the Sears No. 188"in the 1911 Sears Modern Homes catalog :).
Beautiful house, $926.00!!
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Beautiful pheasant. I’ve never seen a live one.
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What a fun surprise! L&L
ReplyDeleteSuch a striking pheasant! Beautifully photographed with the contrasting greens and his coloring (males usually are the sharp dressers in the bird kingdom and the females get the drab browns.
ReplyDeletemitch, we always need to be careful during hunting season. There seem to be fewer this year than in previous years. I wonder if they're all dying off... the hunters, I mean.
ReplyDeletetravel, none of our current neighbors hunt, as far as I know. As I sit here typing this, I can hear gunshots out in the vineyard. Sundays and holidays are hunt days.
evelyn, very colorful!
judy, cool! I didn't really grow up in one place; my family moved a lot. I can think of three different houses we lived in in Delmar alone, and a couple of others in neighboring communities.
bettyann, they are pretty!
L&L, do you ever see them at your house?
mary, that's true. The females are a drab mottled tan/brown. Good camouflage. If you startle a mating pair, the male will leap into the air squawking and fly away, giving the female a chance to sneak off in the other direction under the vines or bushes.
Thanks for that, Walt! I felt I was correct in the coloring from other birds (I hadn't really studied up on pheasants!) The male reaction must be "animal nature" as when I watch NATURE on PBS that seems to be the norm for many animals to ward off predators and protect the Mother and her babes.
DeleteA better pun in English than in French I suppose.
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