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Pheasants in love

posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 08:32am on 22/09/2006 under , ,
Walking into work this morning I decided to take a new route along the
riverside walk created by UCC and the city corporation. I like it. It's
quiet and feels miles from the morning bustle in the rest of the city.

Near the end of the walk, as I apporached the river bridge to cross to the
south bank I met two pheasants pecking about in the brush along the verge of
the footpath. The boy-pheasant got rather excited and dashed about in an
attempt to get away or to distract me, I'm not sure which. The girl-pheasant
looked like she had seen it all before and more or less ignored me. She was
probably just with the young guy in a rebound relationship, if such things
happen in the pheasant community. She could obviously do better and it will
never last.

Or am I projecting?
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posted by [identity profile] sammywol.livejournal.com at 08:12am on 22/09/2006
If you're projecting I'd go for a happier ending please.
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posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 10:55am on 22/09/2006
I've just thought that it might have been a nest and the male was doing his best to lure me away, but I don't think male pheasants are usually that concerned with reproductive success after the 'brief encounter'.

Perhaps he was just upset that I was spoiling his chances with the female. I didn't know my walk was so alluring to pheasant girls.
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posted by [identity profile] sammywol.livejournal.com at 11:11am on 22/09/2006
You should have told him you weren't a pheasant plucker.
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posted by [identity profile] brianrogers.livejournal.com at 10:14am on 22/09/2006
You're projecting - all female birds are like that. When Rachel and I were visiting the manor house used as the model for our C Falk game we saw their peacocks. The female birds were bored to tears, while the males were in full display, with a attitude that can only be described as "Dig the feathers! Hey, lady, dig the feathers!"

Female birds must feel like women at at 70's disco.
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posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 10:53am on 22/09/2006
Ah peacocks are great. We watched three of them, two males and female, at a wildlife park near Cork. One male was vigorously defending his patch (and the female), displaying like mad. The other male had lost a lot of plumage or was immature and had yet to grow the really big feathers, but he hung around and made eyes at the female.

And the female? She pointed ignored the flashy male and made obvious overtures to the scrawny male. Maybe the big male should have had some medallions to go with the colourful wings.
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posted by [identity profile] corylus-unbound.livejournal.com at 03:37pm on 22/09/2006
As birds go pheasants have never really convinced me that are particularly bright but like peacocks the males do have "Beautiful plumage".
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