Pheasant among the grass

Pheasant among the grass
Originally uploaded by Timothy Davies

Don't pheasants look so silly. As I was walking back to the second car park above the roundabout on the road up to Devil's Dyke, cutting across the Dyke Golf Club (keeping strictly to the bridleway, of course), a male ran across, and took me off guard. Then the female shot across. By the time my camera was ready, they were around the corner in the undergrowth, or at least the female was, the male was nowhere to be seen. But they do look so silly when they run. And make such a noise when they take off!