Kitchen Garden Forum

I looked out of the window to see if there were any rabbits in sight, having found some large holes in the front garden only yards from the front door.
No sign of any rabbits, luckily, but this beautiful fellow was strutting his way up the garden:

Dear Bert, if you keep your eyes open, his wife will probably nesting near by, then the youngsters will appear.

They are indeed a magnificent bird.

.........but they love small bulbs like Crocus.

Geoff wrote:.........but they love small bulbs like Crocus.

Interesting - and guess which way he was heading: towards the only patch of garden that has crocuses in it!!!

Nice bird but so noisy. Wake us up every morning.. Sit on our quail cages and turn the roofs white

There is another handsome pheasant like that lives at the top of our lane,
have seen the hen too, she is pure white albino, just as well because they are always jay walking accross the lane, I have to slow for them most evenings LOL It's the first white hen I have ever seen.

We get the pheasants on the allotment and even in the garden when the shooting starts on the "glorious 12th" (August). You can't really blame them, can you?

On the allotment last winter the hungry pheasants even attacked the sprouts from below, probably in search of caterpillars on them.

Pheasants love brassicas. My wife's family farm alongside a large estate that breeds and shoots Pheasants (I think they've been stopped from shooting the peasants) so they put a strip of Kale in a nearby field. Day after the posh shoot they have their shoot of the ones taking refuge and feeding in the Kale.