For peasant, read pheasant

[dormouse1953]

So I was watching W1A just now when I heard a thump on the window and saw the flash of a bird's head and beak out of the corner of my eye.  My first thought  was that it was a pigeon blown off course by the wind, which has got up just now.  But the programme was just finishing, and when I got up I saw something moving in the garden.  It wasn't a pigeon, and it didn't seem to be going anywhere even when I started taking flash pictures through the window.  I assume it didn't feel like flying and it wandered off down the garden path behind the greenhouse.  It may have found the back gate as it doesn't seem to be there now.



I think it's a pheasant, but I'm sure someone will tell me it it isn't.

Comments

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Certainly looks like one to me.

My less than wonderful ornithological discovery today was realising that pigeons have found the kitchen window sill under my bird feeder, and are helping themselves to all the seed dropped by the tits. Which means that sooner or later they will crap on someone's head, since the front door is directly below the kitchen window...

[coth.livejournal.com]

Looks like a pheasant to me. What fun!

[dan-golem.livejournal.com]

I once watched a pheasant march with single-minded purpose towards a suburban front door. I fumbled for my ipod to take a snap but when I looked up the pheasant was gone, almost as if someone had opened the door for it (there seemed no other way out of the garden). There must be little populations of bold urban pheasants no doubt pursued by urban foxes.