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