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    Looks like a comfrey to me but the flowers are so small. Does anybody know the species, please?

    This has me stumped too, the flower and leaf forms look closer to Green Alkanet, but like Borage, the flowers are also usually blue. Green Alkanet is also in Borage family (I mistook it for that and let it grow in my garden, and it’s proven quite difficult to remove as the tap root is so deep...
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    Male pheasant aggression towards chicks

    Hello! Ah sadly we lost them all. For a while I thought we’d have 3, one disappeared a week past Friday and then we had two left all weekend. Monday morning, no more chicks. However, the pair of pheasants are still in our garden and the female keeps disappearing so she may be laying a new...
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    Male pheasant aggression towards chicks

    Thanks very much, still 3 so far so fingers crossed. Still chasing crows out.
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    Male pheasant aggression towards chicks

    Thanks Andy, that’s such a helpful thing to know. It’s mainly the male that comes for food, and once a day the female. As you say, it’s definitely brutal, looks quite vicious pecking. Now there are only three chicks he seems to have settled so perhaps 14 was an unexpected intrusion. Whether...
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    Male pheasant aggression towards chicks

    Thanks so much for responding, that’s really helpful. We have 3 chicks left out of the original 14. The male seems to have settled back to his general disinterest and carefully distanced following the female and chicks. Last year, a crow nested in the garden and raised two chicks. All three have...
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    Male pheasant aggression towards chicks

    Anyone able to help with pheasant behaviour? Earlier in spring a male pheasant started visiting our garden bird feeders. Shortly after, he was joined by a female pheasant. Result: she nested in our garden, and last Wednesday 14 chicks hatched. Over the last week quite a few have been lost...
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