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I pulled the curtains open this morning to find a pair of large white birds feeding in one of my fields. Couldn’t work out what they were until I found the binoculars. It was clear that they were too big to be doves and we have hundreds of pheasants in the fields at this time of year as I’m surrounded by farms that breed pheasants for idiots with guns to pay money to slaughter. As you might have guessed there is no shooting in my fields…so the “slaughter stock” has a safe haven….and we get hundreds at a time some days ! So perhaps not too surprising that two of our many visiting pheasants tunr out to be “1 in a Million” albinos.
I tried to get a good photograph, unfortunately they were a couple of hundred yards away and the longest lens I have is 300mm, so this is the best photo I could get before they took off.
Will look out for them again in the morning when the pheasants seem to settle for an early feed.
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