Well for the last two or three years I have seen an albino white pheasant round here, and this year end of march I saw an all black pheasant, at first I thought it must be a grouse, but yesterday it was strutting along on the grass verge in our lane and I got a close look and it was definitely a black pheasant - no females with it - perhaps they prefer those with more colour.
The first sighting sparked a haiku.....
Urban fox -
the sun and a black pheasant
above our garden
we have cats so they fly over our garden rather than into it.
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