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autumn berries, birding, birdwatching, blackberries, bramble, British birds, Cosmeston Lakes Country Park, Pheasant, pheasant eating blackberries
A rustle of vegetation … an eye … who’s this lurking behind the ‘snipe paddock’ fence at Cosmeston?
A female Pheasant? A common enough bird in the local countryside but not normally seen here in this dog-full park. She has quite short tail feathers and she’s not too bothered about my presence so I presume she’s a juvenile.
It seems she’s quite partial to blackberries.
Are there more of those delicious treats?
Aha, yes, another ripe one.
And, after scoffing those couple of berries, she wanders off in search of more.
Very interesting to see! My pet chickens have gone wild for blackberries this year, they can leap like you wouldn’t believe to get their beaks on some!
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I never thought of chickens liking blackberries but why not? I’m sure fruit must be good for them.
And now I have this image of leaping chickens in my brain. 🙂
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Oh it’s a sight to behold, for sure! Haha
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