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26-09-2005, 10:19 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: uk
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| | | A mouse eating pheasant!
Looked up today onto the bank at the edge of the wood, and was amazed to see a female pheasant wandering around with a mouse in its beak!
I suppose it wasn't as it appeared, as I am pretty sure the mouse was already dead (probably left there by the cat), but what a sight! This female though had the mouse for at least 10 minutes. I have no idea what happened to it!  |
26-09-2005, 10:56 PM
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| | One of those things where if you'd told people what you'd seen, and didn't have the photo to back you up, they'd probably have thought that you're a sandwich short of a full picnic.
Maybe we should start a 'bizarre photo of the month' competition  |
26-09-2005, 11:12 PM
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Originally Posted by StuartDH Maybe we should start a 'bizarre photo of the month' competition | LOL! Blimey, I could fill a couple of them for you!
Yes indeed, a very bizarre sight. Most amusing too, because she was constantly dropping it, then picking it up. |
27-09-2005, 07:42 AM
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| | What an amazing picture Helen. Proves there's always something new to learn in nature.  |
27-09-2005, 08:28 AM
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| | | Not so hard to believe. I've certainly seen domestic hens carrying a dead mouse, and fighting each other for the privilege - though I didn't actually see it consumed.
BWP says Pheasants eat occasional vertebrates including lizards, snakes and voles.
Well done to get the photograph.
henrya |
27-09-2005, 10:52 AM
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| | Great shot!!!! |
27-09-2005, 11:02 AM
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| | Unfortunately it was a dull day, and taken through the window.
Henrya, indeed I have heard about pheasants eating vertabrates, but I suspect it's not really something one would "expect" to see.  |
27-09-2005, 06:28 PM
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| | | This is no wind-up,
I once saw a female Moscovey duck kill a half grown Rat!! | | |
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