Had a new visitor in the back yard a few minutes ago. A rooster pheasant was out for a walk. I imagine he will get under the bird feeders later on. Also known as a ringnecked pheasant.
Wow!!! I would still be singing and dancing and carrying on about that bird in my yard. I once had a mallard duck and I went crazy with joy!
Very striking against the snow. You have such a menagerie of visitors in your yard. And we appreciate the pictures very much.
OH CK! Oh, I am with Drissel -- I would have been soooo happy to see such a beautiful bird in my space. Well, for that matter, I'm happy to see it in YOUR space! Thanks for that.
Most wild pheasants were killed in the blizzard of 1978. The breathing holes in their beaks froze over and they suffacated. But thanks to conservation groups such as Pheasants Forever they are coming back. I am lucky to have a neighbor who is a member of that group. Every year he hatches about 75 to 100 pheasant chicks and releases them into the wild. He lives about 4 houses down from me. So we have had them around here for the past 20 yers. Ohio does have a hunting season for them, but only on state controlled land.
I had no idea that had happened to the pheasants. It makes me worry about how all the birds around here have done during our recent blizzards. How wonderful that your neighbor is adding to the population each year. They are beautiful birds, and deserve our help.
Nice bird. We used to have some wild pheasants where I grew up. Somebody thought it a good idea to introduce them to our area. Unfortunately they didn't manage to breed, but we loved seeing them while they were there.
I usually have at least 1 pair around here every summer. The land across from me has been in the govt. land bank for years and is all grown up with natural cover. And they have been living in there. They come into my driveway to get fine gravel for their gizzards. One year we had 7 pairs with chicks and the driveway was getting pretty crowded. Now the field behind me has been in lnd bank for 2 years and is all grown up and the pheasants have moved into there. That's where this gentlman came from. We can usually hear them crowing in the mornings.
