Last August I had a lone female pheasant visit my garden. I was amazed at how tame she was. She even ate seed from my hand. Once fed though she disappeared into the fields beyond. Is this normal for pheasants? I thought nobody would believe me so I took photos.
Hi Popcornflop
Welcome to the RSPB Forum and enjoy!
It sounds like your female Pheasant might be an escapee, and is tame already
You are yet another human to pamper her and feed her
No worries as she will be fine and a nice addition to your garden too.
Can we see your pictures at all?
Regards
Kathy and Dave
Popcornflop said: Last August I had a lone female pheasant visit my garden. I was amazed at how tame she was. She even ate seed from my hand. Once fed though she disappeared into the fields beyond. Is this normal for pheasants? I thought nobody would believe me so I took photos.
Many pheasant are reared for shoots and therefore are quite used to humans who provide food even when they are allowed to roam the estate, when a car or tractors spreads food for them. Many of them do travel further afield and become ' wild ', but will still think that humans may have some food. The one in my avatar has been coming to our garden for over three years and he always makes sure we know he is around.
when any animal gets fed bye a human being on a reguler bassis it gets to bond with you you can go to some places and you will get allsorts of animals come to you for food if you go to a wildlife park or a zoo were lots of people feed animals you will get things like sparrows doves wild pigeons black birds thrushes come to you for food they will even come and take it out of your hand some people even feed foxs badgers in there gardens and they get that used to them feeding them that they will come right up to them for food even in places like london were the streets are well lit up birds feed all night and are not afraied of humams
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Hi Popcornflop, Welcome to the forum.
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