In article , SusieThompson
writes
We do get a lot of pheasants in the garden - what sort of damage can
they do to plants, etc? Do you know?

We get an enormous number of pheasant and other game birds in our
garden. The damage they cause, is far outweighed by the pleasure they
give me. e.g. The pheasants lay their eggs in the strangest of places,
the greenhouse which has a hole in the lower glass where they can come
and go although I have seen some of their eggs laying in the vegetable
garden where predators have taken them.

They roll all over veggies and scrape out some sort of dust bowls! I
have a badger, lots of frogs and toads, a young deer, foxes, ducks,
hedgehogs, families of poussin type birds and even a dreadful ferret and
a wicked feral cat who are frequent visitors. I get lots of grey
squirrels and I love them despite their bad press and often feed them,
they are almost tame now. I consider myself privileged to watch their
comings and goings.
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Judith Lea