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by loiswakeman @ 10/04/2008 - 11:21:04

I'm a bit worried about my garden pheasants. Yesterday at teatime, a fox was wandering about the lawn as bold as brass, sniffing round the bird table and the pheasants' hide in the rockery. The cock pheasant was kicking up a real indignant racket, though the fox ignored him and went on to investigate the bonfire ashes.

I haven't seen or heard him or his harem this morning - usually, they are waiting under the utility room window for me when I get up to make the tea, heads cocked, waiting for some magic corn to rain down on them! This is a photo of them at breakfast that I took in the snow earlier this week - sorry about all the water on the window :(

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kevinwilsonkevinwilson pro
10/04/08 @ 11:26

maybe they have been temporarily unnerved by foxy?
hope they return soon.

EllieGantEllieGant pro
10/04/08 @ 11:47

Oh, dear, it doesn't sound good. I hope they are hiding, but my mum and dad had a similar experience. Suffice to say that my mum was adamant she would never feed pheasants ever again as it was too upsetting.

But she does and a new one comes and knocks on the kitchen window at 7 am each day for his crusts!

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loiswakemanloiswakeman [Member]
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10/04/08 @ 18:34

I am awaiting the morning with trepidation. It's hard to ignore their little faces though when they ask for food - the females raise their crests and look so sweet ...

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LissaTLissaT pro
10/04/08 @ 15:01

The cock pheasant in our garden appears to be an insomniac - or possibly there is a track across our garden which a fox uses every night just before dawn - but I know that he will be shouting the odds each morning at about four and getting earlier.

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loiswakemanloiswakeman [Member]
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10/04/08 @ 18:30

Oh yes - I am very used to hearing a startled "honk" in the wee small hours. I think they roost in the conifers opposite the bedroom window.

When the children were small, I painted a dot on the edge of the clockface at about 7 am, and told them they mustn't come in and disturb me till the dot on the hour hand lined up.

Unfortunately, pheasants are not quite as amenable!

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