We're watching a pair of pheasants on the front lawn. The cock is doing
his full mating display with very obvious passionate intent. The hen is
looking really fed up as all she really wants to do is eat the grain
I've put out. If she stops moving he tries to take advantage, but she
just doesn't want to know. We had pheasants in the garden right
through last autumn/winter, but never saw this behaviour as early as
October - they waited until Spring had sprung. Do pheasants carry on
like this all the year, and we've only just noticed it going on in our
garden? Or, is this unseasonable behaviour?

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Susie Thompson, Isle of Arran
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