A Japanese visitor

Because we live in a rural village with fields and woods all around we get all sorts of birds and animals in the garden.

Pheasants are regular visitors at this time of year… normal brightly coloured reddy brown male birds and dull grey females wandering around the garden pecking at the ground and occasionally squawking their familiar kwok-kwok noise.

But the last few days we’ve had a rather more exotic looking visitor making its presence known with regular and much louder than normal kwoking noises. Still clearly a pheasant but this one is a vivid green colour with speckles similar to a peacock and the traditional long tail feathers.

Certainly seems to be pretty comfortable in its surroundings if the amount of seed its eating is anything to go by. Nothing about it in the normal bird books I looked in but a quick look on the web revealed it to be a Green Pheasant (the clue’s in the colour!!) which also happens to be Japan’s national bird.

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