A pheasant missing his red bits. The bird table leans and is cracked at the base because the badger keeps pushing it over. I shouldn't have been at home to spot this bird in the garden, but I had to call in sick today, for the first time in more than 6 years!
I woke around 12.30am, suddenly, and had to run to the bathroom - out of nowhere I developed a nasty sickness bug (felt absolutely fine until I woke up about to vomit!) that had me running to the bathroom about every 40 minutes until 3pm this afternoon. I spent most of the day asleep, in between bathroom trips. I think it's norovirus, as my symptoms exactly match that. I don't know of anyone who has ever had it so I can only assume that I picked it up from the computer I used at the test centre on Tuesday. Yuck!
so you can see that this one is missing some red bits. I've seen quite a few that aren't as colourful and always assume they'll have a harder time finding a lady.
April 20th, 2013
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yes, they're common farmland birds in the UK and are managed in places for shooting. There are quite few dark pheasants around too blacks and green, like this, which is not my photo
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brizo_the_scot/5030972830/
and there is an all white one I hope to get a photo of one day, just over the border in Derbyshire.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=571091766257627&set=a.540851319281672.126501.210127389020735&type=1&theater
We get pheasants in the garden often as we neighbour fields. A badger featured here about a year ago...
http://365project.org/roachling/365/2012-05-24
oh, I see you saw that one at the time anyway! The badger still comes, but I haven't attempted to photograph him again.
http://www.wildlifeupclose.co.uk/birds/pheasant/Pheasant.html
so you can see that this one is missing some red bits. I've seen quite a few that aren't as colourful and always assume they'll have a harder time finding a lady.