pheasant

Shame it wasn't looking the other way but pleased I managed one mid drum, full frame image, it was difficult to ensure it all fitted in the frame hence no feet......

Great characters these guys :)

Another species where the male is a bit ostentatious!

See this cock Pheasant perched on a distant post at Cley.

taken for granted this commom bird but showing these colours have we got a more beautiful british bird

Strictly speaking the Pheasant was not in the car park but I was. It was about a metre outside.

I spent a day at the Newport wetlands site and the RSPB site. This is the only bird I got any decent photographs of. It was in the car park, as I was leaving.

Milling through a corn field was this beautiful bird

This one is the same shot cropped and resized to show the amount of detail still retained.

I have been out today and thought i would share the merits of the 70-200 F4 IS. Here is a shot taken at 200mm straight from the camera with no prosessing just resized.

female pheasant looking at me

I just managed to get this one decent shot, but you would'nt believe the shots that were missed coz of the 50Ds bloody focusing which would have been so much better as the cock was taking to the air. Damn camera DOH!

Some beautiful colours in the feathers.

Pheasant sitting on the Fence looking into the Garden finally plucked up courage to join the others at the feeders via a overhaning Tree!

A frequent visitor to my Garden

Over the last ten days or so we have had a male and female (sometimes two) pheasant visit our garden. They lie in a relatively soft part, near to conifers and wriggle around and in doing so throw earth/dust over themselves. This can last for up to 30 minutes or so. Any idea why they do this?? Is...

Another one from today,trying out the new lens.

Not a lot about today.

A Pheasant eagerly tucking into fallen apples at Strumpshaw Fen. Ron