Sacha writes
On 2009-11-25 23:59:17 +0000, "Christina Websell"
said:

"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 2009-11-25 08:57:51 +0000, Aries
said:

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:04:28 +0000, Sacha wrote:

We've had a cock pheasant on the lawn scrounging peanuts, just
recently. They're shameless!
Beautiful tho. I love seeing them but not when they're pinching my
seeds
!
Any veg we grow are for sale, so they're in pots in the greenhouses
and
more in danger from stray mice, if any are around. I sometimes put out
sultanas for the pheasants, too and they get quite silly about them.
--

The old poachers used to soak sultanas in whisky and then collect up
the
drunken pheasants when they either fell out of the trees or couldn't make it
up there to roost.
Doesn't seem very sporting, does it?

I'd heard of that trick and no, it doesn't!

I don't think the poachers were intending sport though, were they? Just
an easy, efficient and quiet kill.
--
Kay