Tuesday, 30 June 2015

More about Pheasants

An interesting post about pheasants.  I have had a very vociferous male accompanying several females around my garden (between Llanrhystud and Llangwyryfon so wild, not released) for several months and I began to realise that he was actually escorting the females from their nests at regular intervals to forage in the garden.  Then last week I watched the male noisily chivvying a female and five newly hatched chicks out of the just silaged field next door and across the garden.  Rather sadly, just a day later he was killed on the road and I haven’t seen the female or chicks since, but what interests me about these observations is the way this male appears to have been involved in actively protecting his females and chicks throughout the nesting period, this isn’t pheasant behaviour I was previously aware of.

I used to hear a green woodpecker from here regularly but haven’t done so at all this year, are they still sighted on Trefenter?  Ditto goes for brown hares, used to see them here but haven’t for a couple of years now.

from Kath Stevens