We're watching a pair of pheasants on the front lawn. The cock is doing
his full mating display with very obvious passionate intent. The hen is
looking really fed up as all she really wants to do is eat the grain
I've put out. If she stops moving he tries to take advantage, but she
just doesn't want to know. We had pheasants in the garden right
through last autumn/winter, but never saw this behaviour as early as
October - they waited until Spring had sprung. Do pheasants carry on
like this all the year, and we've only just noticed it going on in our
garden? Or, is this unseasonable behaviour?

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On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:38:54 +0100, SusieThompson
wrote:

We're watching a pair of pheasants on the front lawn. The cock is doing
his full mating display with very obvious passionate intent. The hen is
looking really fed up as all she really wants to do is eat the grain
I've put out. If she stops moving he tries to take advantage, but she
just doesn't want to know. We had pheasants in the garden right
through last autumn/winter, but never saw this behaviour as early as
October - they waited until Spring had sprung. Do pheasants carry on
like this all the year, and we've only just noticed it going on in our
garden? Or, is this unseasonable behaviour?

oo-er missus :-)
--
Martin

In message , SusieThompson
writes
We're watching a pair of pheasants on the front lawn. The cock is
doing his full mating display with very obvious passionate intent. The
hen is looking really fed up as all she really wants to do is eat the
grain

Or, is this unseasonable behaviour?

I don't remember it before. But I've been out of the UK for a while.
The pheasants round here (N Yorks) are pretty frisky now too.

Regards,
--
Martin Brown

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:43:37 +0100, Martin Brown
wrote:

In message , SusieThompson
writes
We're watching a pair of pheasants on the front lawn. The cock is
doing his full mating display with very obvious passionate intent. The
hen is looking really fed up as all she really wants to do is eat the
grain

Or, is this unseasonable behaviour?

I don't remember it before. But I've been out of the UK for a while.
The pheasants round here (N Yorks) are pretty frisky now too.

There were lots of squashed ones on the road, when we were in N Yorks
3 weeks ago. Does anybody make a living out of collecting and selling
road kill game birds?
--
Martin

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 10:02:45 +0200, martin wrote:

There were lots of squashed ones on the road, when we were in N
Yorks 3 weeks ago.

Nothing unusual about that. Pheasants have as much road sense after
being squashed as they do before.

Does anybody make a living out of collecting and selling road kill
game birds?

I know someone who did pick up a Pheasant that he killed only by
hitting it rather than going under the wheels or body. He said it was
far too bruised to be worth eating.

--
Cheers
Dave. pam is missing e-mail

"SusieThompson" wrote in message
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We're watching a pair of pheasants on the front lawn. The cock is doing
his full mating display with very obvious passionate intent. The hen is
looking really fed up as all she really wants to do is eat the grain
I've put out. If she stops moving he tries to take advantage, but she
just doesn't want to know. We had pheasants in the garden right
through last autumn/winter, but never saw this behaviour as early as
October - they waited until Spring had sprung. Do pheasants carry on
like this all the year, and we've only just noticed it going on in our
garden? Or, is this unseasonable behaviour?

It is obvious that the male is a normal sex mad,
won't-take-no-for-an-answer,sort of chap who simply wants his female to
starve herself into a fashionably thin shape and give him sex on demand :0p