Imagine my surprise last night when I spotted a male Ring Neck Pheasant near the feeders. It’s a new yard bird for me. I got a few pics before he left. I never expected to see him again. Imagine my surprise this morning when I found him sitting on a teak table on my front porch! I was unsuccessful get any more pictures. When I last saw him, he was running for cover under the spruce trees out front. Who knows. Maybe he’ll stick around and I’ll get to see him again. Nice way to start the day. Well, he’s back under the south feeder scarfing up seed. I thought I heard him call. And now he’s parading around my garden. Fun, fun
As an aside, when I was a kid we lived in a newly developed part of Westvale, near Syracuse. We were only the third house there so it was pretty wild. There were lots of pheasants back then. My dad and a neighbor used to go upstairs and shoot pheasants from there. No houses in that directions. Over the years I rarely saw a pheasant Sent from my iPad -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
