A few more birds

[ronwoodcraft]

Weather has been pretty nasty here for a long time. Rain, snow, and more rain. Went out and took some pictures anyway.

 

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[G.I.B.]

Beautiful, nice photography.

 

[old digger]

COOL!

 

[RGINN]

Great pics!

 

[tamrock]

Had Pheasants around me 20 years ago, but they most likely were ate up by the Fox, Coyote and their nest were robbed of eggs by Skunks and Racoon as thier habits got smaller from all the development that's taken place. Maybe five years ago a rooster jumped up on me in the field behind me and my take was he left a private game reserve out east of everything here on what we call the Interstate 25 corridor. Not indigenous bird species, so I don't have much of a problem with their disappearance in the area. My dad said during the Great Depression he and his brothers trapped them. The dug a hole and put a stove pipe in the hole with corn kernels at the bottom. The pheasants would go in, but the slickness of the stove pipe made it impossible to get any traction backing out. They dined on a lot of cottontail, quail and what everelse you could hunt back then for dinner.

 

[ronwoodcraft]

Had Pheasants around me 20 years ago, but they most likely were ate up by the Fox, Coyote and their nest were robbed of eggs by Skunks and Racoon as thier habits got smaller from all the development that's taken place. Maybe five years ago a rooster jumped up on me in the field behind me and my take was he left a private game reserve out east of everything here on what we call the Interstate 25 corridor. Not indigenous bird species, so I don't have much of a problem with their disappearance in the area. My dad said during the Great Depression he and his brothers trapped them. The dug a hole and put a stove pipe in the hole with corn kernels at the bottom. The pheasants would go in, but the slickness of the stove pipe made it impossible to get any traction backing out. They dined on a lot of cottontail, quail and what everelse you could hunt back then for dinner.

That sounds like my childhood. We ate all kinds of critters.

There used to be a lot of pheasants in Oregon's Willamette Valley when I was a kid. We used to have them for thanksgiving dinner instead of turkey. Not many there now.....One theory I heard was back then when pheasants were plentiful, there were no 'possums. Then 'possums moved in and became plentiful, the pheasant's numbers declined due to the 'possums raiding the pheasant nest's. I think the feral cats have also taken a toll on them.

 

[bill_wabo]

Perfect framing, love your photos thanks for sharing.

 

[ronwoodcraft]

Many Thanks All for your input.

 

[Old Dude]

Beautiful pics. The quail and pheasants are my favorites. They still stock them here in northeastern Pa. You can tell the recently released ones. They are dumb as can be lol and still associate humans with food. They don't survive long!

 

[NC Digger]

Love those ring necks! Great pictures!