Hi Folks ,Had a wander around the woods today did get a couple of pics of the GSW at the feeding post I put up a week or so back,but on the way
home came across this old guy wandering down the side of the road(one of lucky ones "so far" to have been missed by the massed guns of local
farmers)couldnt help thinking how colourful he looked,so I had to hang out the car window and take a few pics,(hence the not so good quality)
Evening Des, what a handsome male Pheasant, lovely colours and a good photo if, as you say, you shot it (not literally ! ) from the car.
Thanks Hazel,yes I was hanging out the car window trying to use the mirror as a lens rest and hoping no other traffic came for a few mins.
Des
Thanks Alan,I think they are more colourful than we sometimes appreciate untill we look.
Lovely pics that show the colours off beautifully.
thanks Linda
Yes I know what you mean Bob .see dozens along the road providing dinner for the local crows ,especially when the keepers release them all together,they head for humans for the first week or two thinking they are going to be fed ,oh how wrong they can be.!!!
One of our most colourful birds the Male Pheasant i think. Fantastic colours. Nicely spotted Des.
One of the reasons so many are on the road is that there are some useless, lazy so-called Gamekeepers around who feed them more or less roadside because they can't be bothered to walk!
That means they more or less throw themselves at a car when they hear it coming because they think it's feed!
I routinely have about 40 in my garden every day. They wait for me to do the bird feeders to clear up the seeds that spill and I've 8 hens that follow me.
Thanks Lostnspace,as I said to Alan earlier,they are more colourful than you think,but when you really look at them they are a magnificant bird for colour.
Hi northernlass ,totally agree with you on the keeper front,and the relationship between humans and food,thats why the first few weeks that the shooting starts,they cant miss them,they very nearly sit on the end of the barrell untill it dawns on them that maybe food isnt coming but something nasty is .