Pheasants really are a bit thick.

[gardening_gal]

My computer desk is sat in front of a window that overlooks the front garden. I'm supposed to be paying bills online and sorting out my spreadsheets but the reality is I'm on this site and also pheasant watching out the window.

We have a large number of pheasants visit our garden and they all do seem to be a bit thick. Entertaining, but thick.

I've just watched one stand at the edge of the lawn, put it's head down and run like crazy across the garden. It then turns round, saunters back to where it was and then does it all over again.

OH suggested it was some sort of mating ritual but there isn't any other pheasant around right now so I think it's just a bit eccentric.

No wonder you see so many dead at the side of the road, I suspect they play chicken with the cars. And lose. Poor things.

I really must get on with what I'm supposed to be doing but it's kinda mesmerising just watching this 'sole pheasant olympics'.

[Bill HH]

Actualy pheasants do go a bit crazy at this time of the year, it's all to do with attracting a mate, the one you saw doing it on his own is a habit not confined to pheasants.

[AllInContainers]

Maybe it's practising, using the reflection in the window as a mirror and trying do get his routine just perfect before he meets the pheasant of his dreams, loses his nerve, and makes a complete muppet of himself

[gardening_gal]

Actualy pheasants do go a bit crazy at this time of the year, it's all to do with attracting a mate, the one you saw doing it on his own is a habit not confined to pheasants.

We have quite a number of different wildlife visit us. Are you telling me I can expect my garden to be a racecourse for eccentric things generally.

[gardening_gal]

Maybe it's practising, using the reflection in the window as a mirror and trying do get his routine just perfect before he meets the pheasant of his dreams, loses his nerve, and makes a complete muppet of himself

That would work if he was running towards the window but he's running parallel to it.

However, I'm buying into your theory nonetheless as the thought makes me laugh.

[Bill HH]

We have quite a number of different wildlife visit us. Are you telling me I can expect my garden to be a racecourse for eccentric things generally.

Well I know Hares display some odd behaviour in spring, hence the saying "Mad as a March Hare"

[Compo72]

I don't know about pheasants been thick
We had a male start to come in the garden a few weeks ago
Now the female has joined him

Both tidy up the seeds n peanuts that the little birds have spilled from the bird feeders

The pheasants are in 4 -5 times a day like clockwork
Him first then her second


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[Potstubsdustbins]

Do taste nice though.

[Ja9]

Saw a vey funny card which I better not copy to show here for issues of copy right:a pheasants road safety course...instructor telling his pheasant pupils how to run into the middle of the road, do a silly head movement then run into the road again! Why do they always wait until you are driving past them to do that??!

[Ja9]

Do taste nice though.

Yes they do! Have you ever picked one up from the side of the road though...might be a bit maggoty!

[starbug]

Your pheasant isn't as thick as my wood pigeon, which has just spent half an hour walking over my grass seed and ignored it, then gone back to the base of the bird table to eat the crombs that have gallen off! He's made three or four circuits of the garden in the same way. For the sake of my new lawn, I'm very gald that he's so stupid!

[Ja9]

They are so funny watching them. We seem to have loads that poo everywhere, kids swings a favourite. Glad your lawn is being spared starbug

[noviceveggrower]

In relation to them being a bit thick, well sorry but they are really, in ratio terms compared to their body size compared to their head size means they have a very small brain. I think that's how my dad explained it to me I did look puzzled at him and he just told me they were really stupid and if I was in a car be careful because they go one way then another and back again.

[Kirk]

Pheasants are not a bit thick, they are a lot thick.
They really are trying (quite successfully) to get the thick animal of the year award every year.