Sitting in the dining room this afternoon talking to my wife and mother in law and the wife says "hey theres a pheasant in the back yard!" Sure enough a very young rooster is strolling through the back yard eating bugs and stuff. He parks himself under one of my big bushes and just hangs out most of the afternoon. Crazy!
Haven't seen a pheasant in my yard in 20 yrs I bet. Haven't seen a pheasant on the property in that long! Trying to figure out if he is a wild one or a released one but nobody around here I know of raises them. Closest is over 5 miles away. When we first moved here they were all over the place though.
So when MIL left I looked out back and he was gone. Decided to school him up some on suburban living. So I turned Bob loose on a check cord to see if we could find him. He found him and locked up with a beauty of a point in the east fence row in the taller grass. Of course the bird ran down the fence row so I released Bob and he soon had him stuck. I flushed him and he flew like a wild bird over into the neighbors cow pasture.
It was like Xmas morning around here for a while! I'm still excited to have seen that bird. Kind of encouraging I suppose.
Haven't seen a pheasant in my yard in 20 yrs I bet. Haven't seen a pheasant on the property in that long! Trying to figure out if he is a wild one or a released one but nobody around here I know of raises them. Closest is over 5 miles away. When we first moved here they were all over the place though.
So when MIL left I looked out back and he was gone. Decided to school him up some on suburban living. So I turned Bob loose on a check cord to see if we could find him. He found him and locked up with a beauty of a point in the east fence row in the taller grass. Of course the bird ran down the fence row so I released Bob and he soon had him stuck. I flushed him and he flew like a wild bird over into the neighbors cow pasture.
It was like Xmas morning around here for a while! I'm still excited to have seen that bird. Kind of encouraging I suppose.
