So, that nesting pheasant I discovered in my rose border last weekend? Well, she must have been sitting there for quite some time, considering that it takes 23-25 days to hatch a pheasant egg – and she has now abandoned the nest with a 100% hatching rate!
She probably took her chicks down to the lake or somewhere, because she’s nowhere to be found in the garden. (Pheasant chicks are great runners from the get-go more or less, so they can easily follow their mother for quite a stretch.)
But… She made her nest in my garden! Awr… Isn’t that just wonderful? Also, those egg shells… I just love that olive-green shade of a pheasant egg.
I do hope this repeats next year!
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How wonderful!
Indeed! I can get quite excited about wildlife in my garden…
Your garden must have afforded some protection. I am glad they did so well. There are 2 bird boxes here and one has swallows and the other wrens.
I have a host of nesting boxes scattered through the garden, but as far as I know only two have been in use this year (by starlings and great tits respectively).
Lovely!
I do feel privileged by having her stay in my garden.
(Now I have another visitor, but I think that story is a post in itself; a cat hid in my car yesterday at a motorway service station, so now I have a purring feline sitting on my lap and will need to find out what to do with it.)