Thought I’d share 🙂 Whilst out riding today.

South Gloucestershire… look like they are spreading.

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PS It was eating blackberries.

Blimey the hoorays are not going to miss them come blasting season!!

Cool!
That’s a proper pimp my ride pheasant.

Wonder what it taste like?

Chicken.

@logical

Bit like the three legged chicken,,,, no one knows what it taste like as one has never been caught ! Boom tish.

Spreading? From where – Asia?? 😯

You often get the odd one released here and there with other game but they don’t breed in the wild.

You often get the odd one released here and there with other game but they don’t breed in the wild.

Yes they do according to the RSPB site. I wouldn’t be surprised if they cam from the Southampton patch on the map.

Or a single escapee from a local garden ?

http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/g/goldenpheasant/index.aspx

Saw a lady amhersts pheasant in Ae this year. Very surreal and at least as weird as a golden pheasant

Always nice to see a posh pigeon! Lady A’s are lovely looking birds. And, let us not forget the equally stunning melanistic.

However, normal pheasant look best when stuffed with wild rice and herbs, and cooked in a heavy pot full of red wine and onions. Perhaps a little pepper. Nom.

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More twitchers than I thought on here 🙂

Cannot miss that as a marker bird on the feed ride lol

Wow 😯

That is some colouring on that birdie!

Good work there. 🙂

Blimey the hoorays are not going to miss them come blasting season!!

Lived in the city your whole life then? 🙄

A lot of folk shoot to eat, or shoot to sell to eat.

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One of my favourite road rides is a stretch beside the Scaur between Drumlanrigg and Moniaive. Theres about 1/4 mile stretch that is absolutely hoaching with pheasants. To start with you see herds of them running across the fields in the distance like that scene in Jurasic Park then as you run through the woods its like a battle field, scurrying infantry zigzagging across the road, air support strafing form the left and right, crashing through the fences in clouds of feathers, then just to your sides explosions of ferns and bird launching out of the undergrowth like incoming shells. Just a total eruption of feathers and panic. Its really, really funny and we can hardly hold onto the bike for laughter.

Then over the hill to the Green Tea House for Pheasant and Orange casserole…. then back the way we came and the same pheasant fireworks again