this pheasant has started hanging around the bottom of the bird feeder picking up the bits dropped by the other birds. It is still quite nervous but seems to be getting more used to seeing people moving around in the kitchen. In fact in this shot it was about five feet away from me with glass doors in between.
It was a beautiful day and when I drove some children to the bus stop it was misty and frosty and misty beams of sunlight were coming through the trees. Of course I didn't have my camera, but rushed home and got it and headed back towards the village where I had dropped the children off. And of course by the time I got back the mist had partially cleared and the sun had risen just too high. Typical! A definite case of the one that got away.
Three good things:
Sam's tooth seems to be just about better.
Spent a couple of hours at the FOCUS on Imaging event at the NEC this afternoon. Saw some pretty interesting demonstrations. I had been meaning to go for the whole day but Angus was off sick today, so I didn't manage to leave the house till mid afternoon.
My niece Ella found out today that she got place on the musical theatre course she auditioned for at Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (LIPA) she was one of about 50 to get a place out of the 2000 who auditioned. So pleased for her.
Oh go Ella! Well done her - that's great news. (The friend who I was messaging with blatant lies about returning functionality has called her new baby Ella. Lovely name.)
Fantastic to see him so close up. I feel your pain on the misty day - The Backs were at their finest on Tuesday when I was late for an early school drop off (set all the alarms early and then noticed as we backed out of the drive that it was the time we always leave when I drive!!). Pheasants always remind me of my sister's commute to work though. She got a new car one December and driving though the Sussex countryside early one morning she slowed to avoid a pheasant that was doing its silly run thing - and the it stopped, thereby impaling itself on her side light and smashing it. Driving home in the evening a deer ran out of the hedge and completely smashed her other side light (and she thinks probably died later :0( ). So she limped home with her new car smashed up on both wings... 'Secret Santa at work gave her a book on how to cook road kill...
@judithg Oh no your poor sister! We once drove about fifty miles and wondered why people kept flashing us. We stopped at a service station and discovered that there was a pheasant spreadeagled across the radiator of the car where it had got lodged when we hit it earlier in the day. It looked like some weird trophy-like thing.
@jantan
I admit I did pop ahead a TINY bit when I saw the stampeding goat over there ---->>> in the thumbnail, so I got some of the story about the broken windows. Yikes! And also something about a barking dog problem?
Anyway, I am SO very far behind with viewing and commenting, but there are so many wonderful photos from members that I follow (many with interesting backstories to go with them) that I hate to pass them by and simply pick up with the current date. Sort of like missing out on an episode of a soap opera. LOL
Let's try that again...
I said Gorgeous FAv...I meant to say...
Gorgeous! Fav
He is a marvelously handsome bottom feeder. Very nice that he is slowly becoming more accustomed to you. :-)
I admit I did pop ahead a TINY bit when I saw the stampeding goat over there ---->>> in the thumbnail, so I got some of the story about the broken windows. Yikes! And also something about a barking dog problem?
Anyway, I am SO very far behind with viewing and commenting, but there are so many wonderful photos from members that I follow (many with interesting backstories to go with them) that I hate to pass them by and simply pick up with the current date. Sort of like missing out on an episode of a soap opera. LOL