Friday 8 August 2008

Garden pleasures!

Good morning!






Had enough?!

'Miguel' we call him. He struts across the lawn at about 6am ish and spends most of the day in our garden or in the greenhouse !

Back in the winter he started coming to us, sitting on the bedroom window sills, for shelter.

In the spring, he had a few 'ladies' in tow.

A while after that, we found Pheasant chicks in the lane.

He appeared , one morning, quite bedraggled and minus his tail feathers! So now he resembles an overgrown Quail!

Watching him, has given us so much pleasure. He now feeds from our hands and he comes to us as soon as he hears the rattling of the food tin.

The best things in life are definitely free!

15 comments:

  1. How lovely that he trusts you enough to feed from your hand. How true that the best things are free. Hope he'll still find a few lady friends in the Spring.

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  2. Hi Sal, are you up for doing a tag? If so, pop over to my home blog. It must be lovely living with the countryside around you, I would love this sort of visitor in my garden, just as long as my plants didn't get eaten! He looks quite a character to have scratching around. x

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  3. Senor Miguel is lovely!
    We had a pheasant last winter who had the run of about 70 gardens on the estate, all of which back onto each other ... with warm cosy sheds and hedges.
    He chose to sleep in the bus shelter! (maybe he kept missing the bus!)

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  4. He looks like a wonderful character. What a joy to have such a visitor to your garden. Just one question: why Miguel?!!!

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  5. How fantastic to have such a tame pheasant visiting you. Whenever I come across one they always fly up in the air squarking!
    Yvonne

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  6. We get the same visitors to our garden too..somehow they get in and can't get out! We usually find them under the birdtable, nibbing seed.
    Deb x

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  7. He's a handsome devil isn't he? We have a lot of pheasants around and about but I've never seen a tame one - magic !
    Twiggy x

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  8. Ah Miguel! Such a darling, and yet so scruffy. Only we could have attracted such a scruffy pheasant to our garden... Perhaps you distressed him ;-)

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  9. I love the name Sal.. how did you arrive at Miguel?
    I definitely agree with you.. these are rare occurences and give so much pleasure.
    We had a squirrel called 'Cheeky' who would take toast from our hands every morning.. burnt toast too!
    Michele x

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  10. How lovely to have a friendly pheasant in your garden - he looks quite a character! Do any of his offspring visit as well?

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  11. Thanks for the photos. We used to have a tame pheasant without a tail and we called him Stumpy. I used to joke with visitors that I was training him to follow a line of corn into the kitchen and into the oven!
    Only joking.
    Thanks for the post it brought back many memories.

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  12. This is wonderful! Very envious (in a nice way)!

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