Ring-necked Pheasant
Mar 8, 2020 09:57:47 #
On one morning last summer on one of my drive around photo shoots I can across a hen ring-necked Pheasant as I was taking her photo a male should up then another. There is a local hunting preserve that missed this guys. To see these beautiful birds in upstate NY is fairly rare unless your near the areas that are stocked for hunting. Nothing like North or South Dakota
Mar 8, 2020 10:01:41 #
olddutch
Loc: Beloit, Wisconsin
They are a Beautiful Bird.. and I don't mind that they came from China.. We don't see many in the wild anymore... nice Pictures
Mar 8, 2020 10:04:51 #
Mar 8, 2020 10:16:50 #
nice photos … I thought that they came from India, but I may well be wrong … maybe that was Peacocks? we have wild peacocks here in southeast Vermont … a student at the local wee bitty liberal arts college had a flock as part of his senior thesis, and nobody would take them when he graduated … I though that this was a b.s. story until I was working on a barn and I heard this odd noise behind me … way out in no-place - no cell phone reception, and noting at hand except a framing hammer, I turned around expecting to see God knows who and there he was … the biggest cock I have ever seen, doing the peacock display thing - you could almost hear him thinking "these are MY babes, and I won't share!!" then the tenant came up and asked what I was doing with his birds … came to find out that he (the tenant) likes to blow a bowl in the morning and give them all a few cans of dog food … he said that he hadn't seen a squirrel or rat since they moved in … looking at the beak, I can see why...
Mar 8, 2020 10:45:18 #
Mar 9, 2020 05:29:34 #
rstrick2 wrote:
On one morning last summer on one of my drive around photo shoots I can across a hen ring-necked Pheasant as I was taking her photo a male should up then another. There is a local hunting preserve that missed this guys. To see these beautiful birds in upstate NY is fairly rare unless your near the areas that are stocked for hunting. Nothing like North or South Dakota
Nice set
Mar 9, 2020 08:04:24 #
Nice shots! I used to hunt them all the time as a teenager on Long Island, but eventually their habitat became covered in cement!
Mar 9, 2020 10:23:41 #
rstrick2 wrote:
On one morning last summer on one of my drive around photo shoots I can across a hen ring-necked Pheasant as I was taking her photo a male should up then another. There is a local hunting preserve that missed this guys. To see these beautiful birds in upstate NY is fairly rare unless your near the areas that are stocked for hunting. Nothing like North or South Dakota
Lucky shots. Every time I try to capture the ones on my sister's property, they disappear so fast, it's mind-boggling!
Mar 9, 2020 10:35:57 #
Mar 9, 2020 10:36:19 #
Has to be my favorite bird, they are so pretty. Just wish they were still as plentiful as they were when I was young in Michigan
Mar 9, 2020 11:23:16 #
rstrick2 wrote:
On one morning last summer on one of my drive around photo shoots I can across a hen ring-necked Pheasant as I was taking her photo a male should up then another. There is a local hunting preserve that missed this guys. To see these beautiful birds in upstate NY is fairly rare unless your near the areas that are stocked for hunting. Nothing like North or South Dakota
love Pheasants and your images are lovely of them.
Mar 9, 2020 12:05:38 #
Stunning captures. Male pheasants are such incredibly beautiful birds. The just make our world more beautiful.
Mar 9, 2020 12:42:31 #
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