saw this beautiful bird...

Lovely - you've made a friend of a Reeves pheasant. Really like the 2nd one.

he's really gorgeous
so do I

beep beep

2nd one, someone please make with the highlighty goodness!

ETA: Happy to see this got a HL! DH's reaction to seeing it: "Wow. WOW. That's not just a photo, that's ART!."

Did he follow you home? Did your mom let you keep him? He is extraordinarily beautiful in any case!

That's a HL!

WoW! never seen one of those before!
Aren't they territorial? Was he not trying to chase you off?

hehe - knew this one would get a HL

Brilliant!

love the action shot - never seen one of those chaps over here, was he just hangin round the Hi Street?

that is lovely. More photogenic than the tramps i get following me home.

Well done! :) Great first pic!

Wow, Nige, great pics (esp the 2nd one)

A h/l. cool. So, you're St Francis of Assisi now?

haha. thanks for the h/l. so thats what it is! it looked so beautiful when it ran, and it was super-fast too.

What a stunner!

Am I the only one here thinking it would make a nice dinner too?

mmmm... garlic roasted pheasant

just went back.

caught that bird.

roasted.

ate it.

yum.

Pants on fire; pheasant has to be hung for 4 to 6 days. Anyway, surely no-one with your aesthetic sensibilty could eat anything that pretty?
;)

we have those around here sometimes...bmal used to call them burglar birds because of the eyemask.....lovely catch...

It does look a wee bit annoyed. I wonder if those black and white markings are designed to look fierce.

ok hildegard, you gots me! it is hanging in my kitchen now...

thanks p, and OJ you're probably right about the markings. it kept circling me and getting closer - no fear whatsoever.

what a great bird nice piture