"Bird brains"

I used to think this was a bit mean to birds, especially corvids, but Pheasants seem to be in a class of their own ...
Apart from their standard practice of apparently waiting for a car to come along before dashing out at an impossible-to-read angle, our local ones have taken to pecking at their reflection in our glass door ......
Any tales to tell, either dumbness or brilliance?

 

The local farmer breeds them for shooting, so we get more than our fair share of kamikaze Pheasants.

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Yes poachers used to put cones with corn int bottom with treacle round the rim , then wait for the pheasant to feed as would then be walking around blind and could be picked up by poacher

 

Many moons ago I went out with a bird I told her that Epsom salts were mined in Epsom she believed me, it wasn’t her brain I was attracted to

 

Had she tried Andrews ?

 

Yes she went out with him before me

 

More fiz?

 

They are possibly the thickest birds on God's earth. Plenty of squished ones round our way. And badgers. But they're not birds, of course.

 

"Our" Badgers usually come off best in a head to head with a car ....

 

Little hands

 

Or a pile of raisins with a 1/2" of horses hair put in a few. Daft buggers just stand there coughing.Easy to just walk up to em and click their necks.

 

Wood pigeons in the morning near me, they are completely brain dead (well they are when they trundle under my front wheels)

 

Yes and too fat to perch on feeders so wobble n fall off ,then decide to sit on my roof rack and watch n sh art down my windscreen

 

Yep, same here. They aren't terribly bright.

 

get yourself down to Halfrauds and ask for some Shart wipers

 

Isn’t he the Dutch prime minister?

 

I don't understand how that works?

 

Cone made out of thin card , make small hole in ground put cone in with corn in bottom treacle round top ,the pheasant sticks it’s head in to feed and it sticks to head . As they are sooo dopey they wander round with cone stuck on , poacher picks up pheasant hey presto , does work , I used to mix with country types back then

 

Does that work....sounds like a laugh watching it.