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Image Taken on 13 Jun 2018 at 17:46    Image of day on 27 Jul 2018

An elegant female Pheasant just a few centimetres from touchdown.


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Image Taken on 30 Aug 2016 at 18:28    Image of day on 19 Oct 2016

One version of female Pheasant and Grey Squirrel 'sharing' the photo site.


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Image Taken on 17 Dec 2017 at 14:52    Image of day on 24 Jan 2018

Mr and Mrs (one of Several!) Pheasants grabbing the corn before something else arrives to 'steal' it.


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Image Taken on 19 Jan 2023 at 15:58    Image of day on 15 Feb 2023

One of the female Pheasants at the hedge bottom.


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Image Taken on 29 Mar 2025 at 07:07    Image of day on 10 May 2025

A female Pheasant visits the Meadow site.
The Meadow area could contain several Pheasant nests, but having once trod on a nest many years ago we no longer venture into this area during the breeding season.


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Image Taken on 06 Jan 2023 at 13:38    Image of day on 30 Jan 2023

The female Pheasant appears to be the individual we have only previously seen lurking around Round Pond.


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Image Taken on 08 Mar 2009 at 17:48    Image of day on 01 Apr 2009

A little silliness for April fools day:
So that's one of the places the apples go!


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Image Taken on 24 Sep 2016 at 16:49    Image of day on 14 Nov 2016

"What's this thing then?"
Our single visiting pheasant gives this piece of cucumber a suspicious look.


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Image Taken on 17 Dec 2018 at 15:28    Image of day on 29 Jan 2019

Birds are said to be expressionless, and their faces mostly are. But you can read so much into head positions and 'Jizz' - loosely a birds 'demeanour'.


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Image Taken on 12 Nov 2010 at 10:14    Image of day on 10 Jan 2011

We spotted this female pheasant keeping completely still relying on her camouflage. There are probably many more we don't spot. Certainly the sudden flight of the female pheasant from close by is a characteristic of a walk about at this time of year. She did suddenly decide to make a hurried exit - on foot!


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Image Taken on 18 May 2012 at 13:42    Image of day on 22 Jun 2012

The pheasants have dug out a scrape in the vegetable bed and use it for dust/soil 'bathing'. The spreading of the head feathers in the lower image looks quite remarkable - we didn't know that they had that much control.


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Image Taken on 22 May 2011 at 13:17    Image of day on 28 Jun 2011

Poof ... the magicians Rabbit Pheasant female appears.
The dry weather has many birds making the most of ash to bathe in. This taken over 'a few' seconds in a steady wind blowing away the dust cloud.


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Image Taken on 21 Nov 2009 at 08:57    Image of day on 30 Dec 2009

One of the female pheasants fastidiously picking up a berry cluster.


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Image Taken on 10 May 2013 at 19:22    Image of day on 27 Jun 2013

Photogenic Female Pheasant.
(Try saying that 3 times quickly!)


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Image Taken on 24 Dec 2010 at 09:25    Image of day on 17 Feb 2011

Two unusual landings at the Bird feeder:
The Day Shift: Pheasant often startle us taking off as we walk about. This startled us in a more pleasant way as she popped up on the screen.


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Image Taken on 01 Dec 2016 at 15:44    Image of day on 13 Jan 2017

Days of frost at this site not melting even when the sun briefly appears. We seem to have returned to seeing just this one female Pheasant.


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Image Taken on 11 Feb 2013 at 07:39    Image of day on 17 Mar 2013

Rain removed the snow cover in just a few hours. What a relief from the endless white - an antarctic camp would not suit us at all, but then you hear of people going mad in such environments, so perhaps we are not alone


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Image Taken on 22 Dec 2010 at 08:27    Image of day on 23 Feb 2011

During an extended frozen period birds will frequent places they would not normally visit. Here are a couple of montages of a female and then a male pheasant arriving on the kitchen window perch to pick up dropped peanut fragments. The female even had a go at extracting her own from the metal feeder but her beak has the wrong shape to succeed.


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Image Taken on 03 Feb 2013 at 13:55    Image of day on 31 Mar 2013

Pheasants are hardly 'nimble', but they can make it onto perches more readily that one might think. We caught images like this several times over a week.


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Image Taken on 29 Jan 2017 at 08:19    Image of day on 08 Mar 2017

We ASSUME this female pheasant has been startled and is making a vertical take-off with such force that all the dry leaves around are lifted by the draught from the wings.


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