As I started driving down No. 1 Line late this afternoon after a walk up the track, this pheasant trotted along the road in front of the car before slipping through the fence into a steep, rough paddock. I stopped a little further along where I could see back to where the pheasant was standing. Although not optimistic, I hurriedly changed lenses and managed a few photographs from a long way off. This isn't technically a great photograph, but it gives the impression of this spectacular bird in its environment.
I never fail to get a thrill from seeing a wild pheasant.
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Kia ora Pete,
ReplyDeleteThey are beautiful. I feel slightly ashamed I spent a lot of days in my youth hunting them.
Cheers,
Robb
Kia ora Robb. The irony is that if it weren't for the hunters, we probably wouldn't get to enjoy seeing them so often.
ReplyDeleteYou have captured one of those moments which is ordinary, and yet very special - precisely because we don't ordinarily turn to look.
ReplyDeleteLisa, I can't help looking when a bird as striking as this appears!
ReplyDeletePete, we have a pair of cardinals in our garden! I wish you were here to photograph these beautiful birds!
ReplyDeleteI wish I was there, too! I've never seen a cardinal (other than in photographs, of course).
ReplyDeleteKia Ora Pete...saw a flock of cardinals in the Wisconsin woods back home. Quite stunning really.
ReplyDeleteRobb
Kia ora Robb. One cardinal's spectacular; a flock must be an astonishing sight.
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