Look what I found

[steelslaver]

My Polaris Ranger was parked close to my green hose and hasn't started in the cold. Old battery was shot. Putting the new one in and hear a ruckus in the greenhouse. I keep some cracked corn and hay in there for the deer and I had also made a small entrance for Dinner, the rooster who runs loose on the place. I am wondering what his problem is and when I checked it wasn't him it was an imposter. Wasn't that hard to catch and didn't fight me at all once I grabbed him.

When I took him back outside and tossed him in the air he didn't stop flying until somewhere after he cleared the neighbors roof top.

 

[jeffrefrig]

When he was in the greenhouse, could you call him Pheasant Under Glass"? Those are pretty birds; our beagle used to run them when they stayed on the ground; bring them around just like a rabbit!
Edit to add: That's when the darned birds would finally take flight, but often when they were close enough to take some bird shot.
Nice of you to cut it loose!

 

[Eric300]

I'm not a pheasant pluckier, I'm a pheasant pucker's son, and I'll sit here plucking pheasants 'til the pheasant plucking's done.

(say that real fast 5 times)

 

[s&wchad]

Pheasant...
It's what's for dinner!

... and you don't have to worry about biting down on a piece of shot!

 

[SS336]

With the temperatures you guys are having up there he is probably enjoying the warmth.

 

[LVSteve]

Pheasant...
It's what's for dinner!

... and you don't have to worry about biting down on a piece of shot!

BTDT. Somebody gave us a pheasant in England once. It could have been no farther than 10 yards from the shooter and he copped it with the full cone of shot. Another time we had one that had bounced off a windshield. Beware of splintered bone.

As for the OP being able to catch one easily, I believe it. There was an estate with pheasant shooting near where I lived, and we all swore that their pheasants strutted in the road hoping you would stop and feed them.

 

[steelslaver]

If I wanted to I could trap them all winter long. Spread out cracked corn, put down a fairly big metal cage Piece of wood hinged on floor with a string going up and back to a stick propping the door open. Put corn on wood. They would eat their way right inside and trip the gate.

Or one of my pellet gun. I have plucked hundreds of chickens, pheasants, grouse, ducks, geese and turkeys. I will let the Hutterites do it for me.

Out hunting and camping is another story though.

 

[Rustyt1953]

That picture is how I always envision you; perpetually happy.

 

[pawngal]

Smart pheasant, found a place out of the wind plus food.

 

[Onomea]

And a guy to launch him when he overate!

So, whatta ya figure the ruckus was about? Maybe Dinner showed up and didn't like the stranger at his feed?

 

[steelslaver]

And a guy to launch him when he overate!

So, whatta ya figure the ruckus was about? Maybe Dinner showed up and didn't like the stranger at his feed?

I think he heard me and then kept trying to fly into to clear panels. Just went in and grabbed him and he didn't try pecking me or nothing. I have had chickens that were harder to catch and hang onto

 

[Bald1]

We used to have a lot of ring necks around here but a decline in habitat and increase in predators has taken its toll. I have a big make bird here every spring and summer that raids the bird feeder then jumps up on a stump cackling for several hours.

 

[lihpster]

Just a man and his pheasant. Nothing to see here. Move along.

 

[YeshuaIsa53]

Corn fed. Yum. I would have set him back down and named that one Dessert so Dinner could have a friend. He'll most likely be back.

 

[Mule Packer]

Very nice!! When the snow piles up out here, I start filling bird feeders and hanging suet. I've noticed several pheasants out by the feeder on the tack shed. That's the one that has the cracked corn, sun flower seeds, etc. Beautiful birds!

 

[Rustyt1953]

Do you have a glass to put it under?

 

[zeke]

Taste treat and am a plucker from way back.

 

[steelslaver]

Pheasants need to get some little pieces of gravel for their craw. As I have a gravel drive and plow it they are often on my drive, I would also see them around where I feed the deer. I take a scoop off cracked corn with some hay and sometimes I spill a bit trying to carry the corn and a sheaf of hay out of the green house. He probably found the trickle of corn followed it to the door which I set up with a missing corner so the rooster could get in and did just what the rooster does. But, panicked when I came along and kept trying what he saw as an escape

 

[glenwolde]

Smart pheasant, found a place out of the wind plus food.

He's probably wondering why he got thrown out.

 

[SMSgt]

I used to hunt pheasants in eastern WA. They fed mainly on wheat. Most tasteless birds ever, tasted like whatever sauce you dumped on them.