first for garden

[watervole]

I've just spent ten minutes watching a rather lovely female pheasant. In 25 years of living here, I've never seen one in our garden before. She seems to like the lawn close to the hedge and she's doing a very good job of eating up some of the birdseed that gets knocked to the ground by the sparrow from the feeder.

She looks a bit like this (not my photo) http://community.webshots.com/photo/102728157/120073738nhEoPI

I hope she comes back again.

Comments

[kerravonsen]

Cool.

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

Where do pheasantsgo in the summer? For the past three years we have had a covey(?) of pheasants in the garden over the winter and they vanish for the summer.

[alphekka-alpha.livejournal.com]

They seem to like sunflower seed hearts. A cock pheasant was a regular visitor to our garden last winter. He was a real beauty, and would come and look in at the patio door as if saying, "Oy! Where's my breakfast?!" 8-)

In the spring he was joined by, first two other cock birds, and then by a hen. We were in hopes at that point that we might have some chicks but they all disappeared in the summer. 8-(

[entorien.livejournal.com]

A pheasant! That is a first! Suddenley my Goldfinch seems a little lame...