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Image Taken on 01 Apr 2007 at 16:00    Image of day on 18 Apr 2007

Our male pheasant drapes his tale through the beam.


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Image Taken on 25 Mar 2007 at 14:56    Image of day on 09 Apr 2007

The male pheasant has appeared again on both cameras after a few days absence. He really is magnificent.


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Image Taken on 27 Jan 2007 at 14:13    Image of day on 11 Feb 2007

Our Pheasant managed to get himself bang in focus for this portrait.


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Image Taken on 27 Jan 2007 at 14:29    Image of day on 09 Feb 2007

Another pic of our handsome pheasant.


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Image Taken on 30 Jan 2007 at 16:41    Image of day on 03 Feb 2007

Probable 'Hubby' for yesterdays female pheasant.


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Image Taken on 23 Dec 2006 at 09:45    Image of day on 04 Jan 2007

The whole of our large male pheasant just squeezing into the frame.


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Image Taken on 13 Dec 2006 at 02:18    Image of day on 24 Dec 2006

Earlier hours of next morning the male Pheasant passed by - this time with his head into the wind.


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Image Taken on 30 Nov 2006 at 15:29    Image of day on 06 Dec 2006

The male pheasant is now about most days. The morning before this afternoon picture one of 'his' females (that we call 'Blondie' because her plumage is unusually light) visited the same site but left her head out of the picture.


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Image Taken on 04 Mar 2006 at 17:05    Image of day on 15 Mar 2006

The male pheasant again stayed at this site for an hour taking his picture. Here is one of the better portraits. No sighting of the females at all.


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Image Taken on 20 Feb 2006 at 06:42    Image of day on 26 Feb 2006

Haven't caught the male pheasant on camera for almost a month. We haven't seen 'the girls' for about the same period. Hopefully they have found a safe nesting in the rank grass.


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Image Taken on 11 Mar 2020 at 16:50    Image of day on 31 Mar 2020

5 minutes apart we catch a female Pheasant (right), and the male in a quirky posture


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Image Taken on 04 May 2012 at 17:52    Image of day on 06 Jun 2012

Supper together.
This male (with dark ear tufts) has 3 ladies following him around. At times he makes his characteristic call every 2 or 3 minutes.


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Image Taken on 30 Mar 2021 at 19:27    Image of day on 08 May 2021

No more fights spotted recently between the Squirrel and Pheasant, but plenty of 'dirty looks!


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Image Taken on 16 Mar 2017 at 17:23    Image of day on 28 Apr 2017

Penny plain, tuppence coloured.
This quote refers to the difference between the two plumages ...
"In the 19th Century, a fave kids' toy was a model theatre. The characters, props and scenery were sold as separately as printed sheets which you cut out and mounted on bits of wood. The sheets cost a penny if they were just printed in black outline, so that the user had to colour them in, or tuppence (two pence) if ready coloured for posh kids".


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Image of day on 09 Mar 2005

Two of our larger birds passing like ships in the night.


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Image Taken on 13 Jun 2023 at 17:57    Image of day on 08 Aug 2023

After months of absence a male Pheasant returns.
It doesn't take long for a Grey Squirrel to attack.


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Image Taken on 14 Apr 2018 at 18:45    Image of day on 02 Jun 2018

Here is what we think of as the dominant male pheasant with his Blond plumage.


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Image Taken on 11 Apr 2016 at 15:50    Image of day on 19 May 2016

The Grey Squirrel looks keen on attacking the male Pheasant, but the bird looks more than ready to deliver some beak, claws and spurs in return!


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Image Taken on 01 Mar 2018 at 08:29    Image of day on 16 Apr 2018

The 'blond' dominant male Pheasant hunts beneath the coating of snow, his tail encrusted with ice.


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Image Taken on 06 Feb 2018 at 16:21    Image of day on 13 Mar 2018

A peaceful moment catches the dominant male pheasant with unusual colouration quietly stepping over what looks like a log, but is actually a piece of bark from the dead tree behind.


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