So picture this - Aprils Fools day - I'm out in the back garden filling a new Niger Seed feeder in the hopes the Goldfinches will grace us with their presence when I get a tap on the window. I look up and Mam and Dad are gesticulating Wildly at me so in I run and they tell me with a bemused look on their faces 'Think I just saw a Pheasant'. I'm standing there looking at the two of them thinking 'Ok that is a BIT far fetched'. But I still ran up the stairs to see if I could see it in a neighbours garden and wait for it ..... Yup there is a Pheasant running round in a garden to the back of us. Surprised is defo what you would say I was so I start to text people telling them and realise - its April Fools day - got to get a picture or NO one will believe me - hell I nearly didn't!!!
So luckily enough another neighbour startled it into coming back across our garden - I was looking out the window trying to see where it had gone when I see a lady in her garden do a HUGE double take and go to walk back in her hours but turn towards the Pheasant with a look of 'WHAT The hell' all over her face.
It flew across the garden to the top of another neighbours garage roof where I managed to get some pictures of it - and soon it was joined quite comically by one of our resident Magpies who was looking it up and down in a very befuddled way!
If you look at the map you will see why we were all so surprised - there aren't any parks where a Pheasant could have come from anywhere close to where I live!!!
Please send any ideas where it might have come from on the back of a postcard to 'Where the hell did it come from' at PO Box Birdie :)
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’What exactly are you?’
’I dunno but I don’t like the way you are looking at me!’
Wonder if I just ignore it, it will go away?!’
’Hey Matilda can you see what I see??? I'm not imagining it am I? There is a great big bird with no tail sitting beside me yeah? I swear I only had one or two pecks of the apple and I don't feel drunk!!!’
’What you looking at?’
So anyone looking for a Lost Pheasant without a tail - twas last seen roaming round Artane scaring the Magpies :)
What a good birding start to the month eh?
3 comments:
Thats really really weird, plus lack of tail is a bit worrying. We've got pheasants at home and they should have 3 or4 long feathers as their tail. Do you think it was hit by a car and wandered all night concussed?
looks as if your Pheasant has lost a bit more than half a tail. And it has either been attacked by a dog or Fox, I'd think.
Do they have birds at Beaumont hospital?
An injured animal will be confused and looking for shelter and food. A place to take a breather and a little preen.
Hi Siobhan and Yoke
Dunno it seemed pretty ok on its feet and ok flying was quite happy putering around.
None that I know of Yoke I would have said maybe at one time before they built all the apartments but there isnt much land now there at all.
One of the Tolka lads said that if it was kept in a cage it wouldnt develop a tail.
Just hope I dont come across a dead one on the road somewhere :(
Wonder where its gone hmmmmm.
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