+Hazzball Gaming Over the next few days he began hassling my wife, the horses, the dog and the guests at our holiday home. So we caught him in one of the horses hay nets. He got tangled up, so we had to cut him out of it. We then put him in a cardboard box and took him to a large woodlands about 10 miles away. We set him free and we haven't seen him since. Lately though, another young male pheasant has been hanging around. I just hope he isn't the son of the first one, out for revenge like in Jaws 2. ☺
CountryHouseGent haha :D Shame you took him away though, he could have been your best friend! You could've given him food if you hadn't already, some seeds or something.
He may have thought you were offering food with your hand. Wild pheasants will adopt you and follow you everywhere. One did with our family, and never pecked us. They can become really great friends.
@@CountryHouseGentthe problem was you bowed to it. I guess that’s a way to initiate a fight to them. I have a pheasant as of recently idk much about them but I know that’s a gesture of violence or whatever. Mine are quite scared of me for now but they’re juveniles and theyre new to me. Next time just stand your normal level and offer food. Maybe that’ll change his attitude.
When you held your hand up toward his face like that, it was very bad body language for this species. I know that is how you signal friendly intentions to a dog. However, this is not a dog. To him your lowered hand was moving just like the way another male pheasant lowers his head before attacking. That's when he decided you were a rival that needed to be chased off.
Alyenbird Yep I think you're right. The first attack was easily my assuming too much. The second, not so sure but as you say, dropping down and holding the phone out, he thought I was preparing to lunge. Still, you live and learn.
Bad body language for any species hoping, counting on another for their substance. I have seen deer kick and headbutt the door of an automobile, because they received a empty hand. I have seen squirrel jump on a persons back, and run circles around that persons shoulders because there wasn't peanut in their hand. I have seen my neighbor pull up and throw his mail box across his yard, because he did not receive his paycheck in the mail.
This video makes me so happy! What a sassy pheasant lol. Can’t believe he bit you like that. I got attacked by one the other day. Jumped right at the window. Sometimes they wake us up by pecking on the window. Our neighbourhood is run by these guys haha. We really like them but are surprised by how sassy they can be. Also, looks like a lovely life you’ve built for yourself Surrounded by nature like you are. Thanks for posting this video and kudos for not getting too angry with that bird. You clearly manage anger well haha.
We got three wild pheasants here right now (Germany) and as long as Iive (33 years) I have never seen pheasants in my hometown. I am a hobby nature photographer and our pheasants are super shy. And after watching this video i am glad they are shy 😂
The more I look at his golden brown feathers, the more I think about a succulent, poultry dinner, burnished to a crisp yet juicy glazed, golden brown finish.
🤣🤣🤣Very funny. Bird body language is almost the same with every species. When they follow you, approach you, then stick their beaks out at you, an attack is imminent. It's true of parakeets and it's true of pheasants, geese, ducks, pretty much all birds. And, worse, they don't care about treats once they get all worked up.😂
He's treating you the way the males treat each other, so the previous guesses about territory and mating are probably right, but the behaviour and territorialism between males is hard to unpick. I've watched the local pheasants here for a while now and they're somewhere in between territorial and social. They'll shadow each other on their food routes, establish a kind of pecking order but not usually drive each other off. We have a tame one that eats out of your hand, and today he was shadowed by a much more impressive looking one who harried him but didn't actually bully him - just watched to make sure the smaller one wasn't getting all the food. Like rivalrous siblings, almost. It's very odd.
He was probably a stalked pheasant thats why he had the bald spot form the netting of the cage, pheasants fly when there scared and will fly up and hit the net alot when in captivity then there released into the wild. Here in PA they stalk like 10,000 pheasants a year per area or county i believe, for us hunters and to help wild populations, so if you live by game lands that stalk pheasants your going to have alot of them around your home thats for sure. And there just like chicken roosters so they do like to fight everything and they always use them sharp little spurs.
A few years whilst river 🎣 there was a pheasant where I parked dead friendly. Anyway after a few hours made our way back to the car and this pheasant went crazy, chasing us around the car, hissing spitting then once we got everything in the car it chased us all the way along the track. An hilarious experience.
We were on a unsealed back road somewhere near Stirling Scotland, horribly lost because the husband decided he didn't need a "stupid GPS" and one of these things runs out of the grass and just stops in the middle of the road! We weren't driving very fast so we stop and commence a 10 minute staring competition with the bird version of Gandalf "you shall not pass". And they say the animals in our country (Australia) are mean!
I had a similar encounter on Bredon Hill, Worcestershire today. A male pheasant came very close to me and followed me up and down a track pecking at my legs now and again. I think pheasants can get used to humans during the rearing process where they sometimes get handled, so must loose the natural fear of us. Not sure whether this close up behaviour is terrritorial or if they are trying to make some other form of contact (for food?). Does anyone know? I guess you could really get to know a pheasant like this, almost like a pet if you saw it often enough.
Jez..... psycho pheasant LOL. I thought he were quite beautiful & cute until he started doing that lol. Am sure he didn't mean any harm lol, perhaps just a protective instinctive behaviour as he is wild Or maybe he were just having an off day lol.
+Gary Phillips :D Absolutely not. He did himself no favours that day. One strike and you're out in my book - and a journey in a box to someone else's woods miles away. :)
We had one just like this, I was trying to feed it and gave it a name . . . then it started to attack, the last attack (3 in total) involved it jumping on my son (3) and clawing him quite badly. So no matter how interesting we had to get "shot" of him. It is funny how we humanise animals, even things like spiders.
I think it might see something on the camera as a threat, some birds sees danger in the most common and unexpected things or they simply try to bite or scratch it to examine it, and we, humans, have a very delicate skin XD lol
What time of year was this? Was it in Spring? His wattles are really red and pronounced. They get that way during the breeding season. He may have just been really hormonal!
Awesome video. I recently befriended a female pheasant. While it was extremely cold (-15c) she just sat quietly in the snow in my garden. I went out to give her some food, and I could get real close. Gave her some sunflower seeds, and she has been my friend since that. She comes around almost every day, and I give her a handful of seeds. After eating the seeds, she quietly walks away. She hasn’t shown any aggression at all. Are females nicer than males? There are 8 pheasants in the neighborhood, 1 male and 7 females, so I guess the females are his harem. The male is totally shy, but maybe that’ll change once mating season starts?
Where is this, UK or America? I’ve seen a few here in California but they were escaped livestock… had to double check, I couldn’t believe I was seeing them in San Diego.
Looks like you may have to hold him down to the ground... When a rooster wants to establish domince over another rooster, he will mount him like a hen. If you hold him to the ground for a few seconds (right side up), it shows that you are in charge.
i had one turn up about 6 months ago. he arrived very shortly after all but 1 of my ducks were wiped out by predators in one week. the last duck and the pheasant made friends and would hang together. the pheasant would come up and eat of the food bowl from my hand. the duck has since found a pair of wild ducks and hides way out the back. the pheasant recently bought a girl friend home. she was a bit more skittish but now ignores me. she has actually disappeared in the last few weeks, i am assuming she is sitting so one day soon may have babies running around as well. the boy is still front and center and follows me all over the show. sometimes he gets a bit stroppy, but i noticed he tried to cut me off sometimes form the right, sometimes from the left. so i thought, lets go where you are telling me to go. guess where we ended up? at the food bowl... now if he is bothering me i check there is food in the bowl. hes a bloody cat with feathers! he had a go at me once, and he got the fight response not the flight response, and has never done it again. seems a swift kick in the guts allowed us to reach an accord. it wasnt hard, but it was instant, more of a reaction from me that lifted him in the air for a bit... still, seemed to have done the trick and now we happily coexist :-) i consider him my pet
We've got one like this but I'm very cautious. I understand that, when the breeding season comes around and they're "popular" with the ladies, they'll attack anybody around. So best to be careful and not rely on the "friendship" too much since it revolves a lot around territorialism and food.
He's no different than us when we are very hungry. He is irritable and grouchy and wants to be fed. I didn't know they could inflict that kind of kick.
Any update on the pheasant so far? What happened after this? :D
+Hazzball Gaming Over the next few days he began hassling my wife, the horses, the dog and the guests at our holiday home.
So we caught him in one of the horses hay nets. He got tangled up, so we had to cut him out of it. We then put him in a cardboard box and took him to a large woodlands about 10 miles away.
We set him free and we haven't seen him since. Lately though, another young male pheasant has been hanging around.
I just hope he isn't the son of the first one, out for revenge like in Jaws 2. ☺
CountryHouseGent haha :D
Shame you took him away though, he could have been your best friend!
You could've given him food if you hadn't already, some seeds or something.
They’re quite delicious... possible solution for next time lol
You could have had roasted pheasant. ;)
Yeah shame on him. He should have turned him into dinner thats what i would have done
He's escorting you off his land lol
they are such beautiful birds and I love the way they run
SERBINATOR 85 And I love the way they taste roasted over an open fire.
808bAler well said! I agree
808bAler agree with u but I find it as a pet.
SERBINATOR 85 I have a pair nesting in my field they truly are magical animals to watch!
Pigeon7700 pheasants are birds they fly and have feathers I think you need to do research!
You hear all the other birds in the background laughing at you and cheering him on.
Lol, I noticed that too. It definitely sounds like that
The bird is very pretty thank you for sharing
That bird is simply just fowl.
😂 Very true.
Nicole Moore 😂
Pheasant not bird.
That is NOT a pleasant pheasant.
the phone offended him :P
More like Unpheasant.
'Tis but a peasant.
He may have thought you were offering food with your hand. Wild pheasants will adopt you and follow you everywhere. One did with our family, and never pecked us. They can become really great friends.
That must be right. He was definitely 'friendly'. 🤭
@@CountryHouseGentthe problem was you bowed to it. I guess that’s a way to initiate a fight to them. I have a pheasant as of recently idk much about them but I know that’s a gesture of violence or whatever. Mine are quite scared of me for now but they’re juveniles and theyre new to me. Next time just stand your normal level and offer food. Maybe that’ll change his attitude.
I second that on the stew. Mean pheasant makes a mean bowl of stew. Miss your vanagon camper videos.
just look at that shiny green head and plump body!!! SO CUTE!!!
Getting a bit grumpy when a bald spot starts to appear is pretty common
0:28 I can't get over how cute the noises are that he makes. I wonder what he's saying
it's amazing what bacon, rosemary and a preheated 175C oven will do for his attitude problem.....
He signalled that he was a rival
They are basically extinct where I live because of people doing that so not really a good idea
@@lizfowle2473 Why they are delicious I believe there’s lots in the UK and I believe there’s lots here where I live in my country
I think all the birds in the background are cheering him on! hahahaha
What's for dinner? Nice roasted pheasant.
When you held your hand up toward his face like that, it was very bad body language for this species. I know that is how you signal friendly intentions to a dog. However, this is not a dog. To him your lowered hand was moving just like the way another male pheasant lowers his head before attacking. That's when he decided you were a rival that needed to be chased off.
Alyenbird Yep I think you're right. The first attack was easily my assuming too much. The second, not so sure but as you say, dropping down and holding the phone out, he thought I was preparing to lunge. Still, you live and learn.
Alyenbird male peasants do these actions when you lower you head.
Bad body language for any species hoping, counting on another for their substance.
I have seen deer kick and headbutt the door of an automobile, because they received a empty hand.
I have seen squirrel jump on a persons back, and run circles around that persons shoulders because there wasn't peanut in their hand.
I have seen my neighbor pull up and throw his mail box across his yard, because he did not receive his paycheck in the mail.
@@cwf081166 🤣
@@cwf081166 that's a scary life
He's a baaaaaaaaaad duuuuuuuuude moving like a cocky Goth on warfare I love it
I didn't think England had any dangerous wildlife, but I stand corrected! He really had it in fer ya.
Ha, yes. A severe attitude problem.
My best friend always has pheasants around his house, once he was so annoyed by the pheseants he sneaked behind one and honked a airhorn
I have seen this display before. he only does this when you are in his territory. they are very territorial birds.
I think you're right and I also think it must have been mating season. Maybe I was competition?
"You think I'm after your bitches or something?" 😂😂😂
LOL, that's a little dinosaur.
This video makes me so happy! What a sassy pheasant lol. Can’t believe he bit you like that. I got attacked by one the other day. Jumped right at the window. Sometimes they wake us up by pecking on the window. Our neighbourhood is run by these guys haha. We really like them but are surprised by how sassy they can be.
Also, looks like a lovely life you’ve built for yourself Surrounded by nature like you are. Thanks for posting this video and kudos for not getting too angry with that bird. You clearly manage anger well haha.
Many people would just put the poor bird in the oven
@@antsfinland2760 they can't help it, them buggers are tasty
Beautiful animals! Id like to hatch one and raise it as a pet
Surprisingly got chased by one last week and he eventually lunged at me and pecked at my ankle.. aggressive beasts !
These pheasants are being oddly funny today on this day
This guy is a legend, he’s hearting comments 7 years later
Also thanks for hearting my comment
You're very welcome. 😊
We got three wild pheasants here right now (Germany) and as long as Iive (33 years) I have never seen pheasants in my hometown. I am a hobby nature photographer and our pheasants are super shy. And after watching this video i am glad they are shy 😂
He looks like he has a jumper on with white polo collars under it
That was funny I never knew pheasants were vicious..
I gather people feed him and he was literally trying to force your hand with the expectation of a snack.
The more I look at his golden brown feathers, the more I think about a succulent, poultry dinner, burnished to a crisp yet juicy glazed, golden brown finish.
He clearly wants you to make him your dinner!!
someone just invited themselves for supper.
This is why you NEVER say: I like your cut G!
🤣🤣🤣Very funny. Bird body language is almost the same with every species. When they follow you, approach you, then stick their beaks out at you, an attack is imminent. It's true of parakeets and it's true of pheasants, geese, ducks, pretty much all birds. And, worse, they don't care about treats once they get all worked up.😂
That hurt Charlie! You bit my finger!
Like a Velociraptor
You get out from under the bridge and all of a sudden it stands there and you hear the low horror piano note and the creepy cello in the background XD
The Pheasantry is angry once again lol.
Wow! Funny video. Sorry you got attacked, but what odd behavior! He sounded like he was hissing at you after a bit too. Thanks for posting.
Pheasants are just good looking pigeons
He's a handsome boy. I have two visit my garden daily, but now I've seen your video, I'm not going to attempt to get too close.
+Andrew Hudson Yes, they're nice to look at but a little unpredictable. Proceed with caution. :)
I know what I would be having for supper.
He's treating you the way the males treat each other, so the previous guesses about territory and mating are probably right, but the behaviour and territorialism between males is hard to unpick. I've watched the local pheasants here for a while now and they're somewhere in between territorial and social. They'll shadow each other on their food routes, establish a kind of pecking order but not usually drive each other off. We have a tame one that eats out of your hand, and today he was shadowed by a much more impressive looking one who harried him but didn't actually bully him - just watched to make sure the smaller one wasn't getting all the food. Like rivalrous siblings, almost. It's very odd.
I think that my Weimaraners want to be friends with it too. LOL!
Male California Valley Quail watching this vid:
ha HA HAAAA! 😂
Oh yes, they're very similar. 🙂
@@CountryHouseGent 🥰 and cuuute!
Pheasant makes dont mess around man they show ya who top dog is 😂
This same thing is happening in my neighborhood right now! Months of walking w people and following the mailman is now showing aggression
Oh wow, There's around 5-10 of them near my house. Lurking in the woods :P
He was probably a stalked pheasant thats why he had the bald spot form the netting of the cage, pheasants fly when there scared and will fly up and hit the net alot when in captivity then there released into the wild. Here in PA they stalk like 10,000 pheasants a year per area or county i believe, for us hunters and to help wild populations, so if you live by game lands that stalk pheasants your going to have alot of them around your home thats for sure. And there just like chicken roosters so they do like to fight everything and they always use them sharp little spurs.
😂 😂😂😂 that is one territorial bird. that’s a healthy pheasant though that would be nice mount on the wall if he did that to me lol.
Wow. They hiss. 😂😂😂
Yes very much, which was a suprise for me as well. Like a Cobra. 😲
@@CountryHouseGent yeah. Honest. These things are huge too!!
A few years whilst river 🎣 there was a pheasant where I parked dead friendly. Anyway after a few hours made our way back to the car and this pheasant went crazy, chasing us around the car, hissing spitting then once we got everything in the car it chased us all the way along the track. An hilarious experience.
More than a little bit scary at the time as well, I bet? 😳
Wow!! Good shot!
he is just getting a bit upset that no one follows his no trespassing marks. So now he has decided to escort you off his property himself.
Yes, very true
That would of been straight on the dinner plate later, 😂😂😂😂only joking pheasant lovers👍
i think those corvids know a thing or two about that wacky pheasant .
Falco Lombardi having an attitude as usual! 😆
It probably would be a very good idea, to wear protective eye wear and gloves when near that very smart and fast Pheasant!
LMAO! Well don't let him bite you. Hahahahahah he's not a pet!
We were on a unsealed back road somewhere near Stirling Scotland, horribly lost because the husband decided he didn't need a "stupid GPS" and one of these things runs out of the grass and just stops in the middle of the road! We weren't driving very fast so we stop and commence a 10 minute staring competition with the bird version of Gandalf "you shall not pass". And they say the animals in our country (Australia) are mean!
He's waiting for the the "Glorious First", then it will be curtains for him!
peter woods 😂
I had a similar encounter on Bredon Hill, Worcestershire today. A male pheasant came very close to me and followed me up and down a track pecking at my legs now and again. I think pheasants can get used to humans during the rearing process where they sometimes get handled, so must loose the natural fear of us. Not sure whether this close up behaviour is terrritorial or if they are trying to make some other form of contact (for food?). Does anyone know? I guess you could really get to know a pheasant like this, almost like a pet if you saw it often enough.
*Peace was never an option.*
Jez..... psycho pheasant LOL. I thought he were quite beautiful & cute until he started doing that lol. Am sure he didn't mean any harm lol, perhaps just a protective instinctive behaviour as he is wild Or maybe he were just having an off day lol.
Maybe he's really hungry and thinks your fingers are worms lol.
And that is why I always carry my umbrella with me.
We watched this in class it's amazing
+Robyn Marks Cheers Robyn. They showed the video in school ?? That's also amazing. :)
CountryHouseGent it scared everyone its was so funny
These birds have a sixth sense - This man is probably got something to hide!!!
MrNawaznaz I hadn't considered that. :)
rickos1234 😂
They Taste lovely in a game stew! 😊
+Loving Narrowboat :) I always found them to be a bit 'boney'?
CountryHouseGent 😂
Beautiful birds. I always wondered, is the red mask on its face red feathers or red skin?
Not 100% sure but I think it's skin, like on the beak of a chicken.
@CardinalStrikesBack, yes they are Ringneck Pheasants. They are still a bird my friend.
Blimey!
I knew he wasn’t smart.
Who, me or the pheasant? 🤔 😆
He wasn't a very pheasant plucker was he lol
+Gary Phillips :D Absolutely not. He did himself no favours that day. One strike and you're out in my book - and a journey in a box to someone else's woods miles away. :)
Hahahahaha. I never would have believed it ha I not seen it
We had one just like this, I was trying to feed it and gave it a name . . . then it started to attack, the last attack (3 in total) involved it jumping on my son (3) and clawing him quite badly. So no matter how interesting we had to get "shot" of him. It is funny how we humanise animals, even things like spiders.
That's one friendly dinosaur
Bad a$$ bird. He needs to be taken to a taxidermist. LOL 😆!!!
Food. That's the deal. You want protection you have to pay. Rules is rules.
The Puissant Pleasant Peasant Pheasant.
I think it might see something on the camera as a threat, some birds sees danger in the most common and unexpected things or they simply try to bite or scratch it to examine it, and we, humans, have a very delicate skin XD lol
What time of year was this? Was it in Spring? His wattles are really red and pronounced. They get that way during the breeding season. He may have just been really hormonal!
Hi. This was in May.
Awesome video.
I recently befriended a female pheasant. While it was extremely cold (-15c) she just sat quietly in the snow in my garden. I went out to give her some food, and I could get real close. Gave her some sunflower seeds, and she has been my friend since that.
She comes around almost every day, and I give her a handful of seeds. After eating the seeds, she quietly walks away. She hasn’t shown any aggression at all. Are females nicer than males?
There are 8 pheasants in the neighborhood, 1 male and 7 females, so I guess the females are his harem. The male is totally shy, but maybe that’ll change once mating season starts?
In Canada, we would have insisted he come to supper.
Weird, this never happens in Finland, here they just run away from you.
Where is this, UK or America? I’ve seen a few here in California but they were escaped livestock… had to double check, I couldn’t believe I was seeing them in San Diego.
Okay, pardon me, I’m guessing you’re in the UK. Answered my own questions, lol.
I bet it was set off by it's own reflection
Maybe he wanted food 😊
Looks like you may have to hold him down to the ground...
When a rooster wants to establish domince over another rooster, he will mount him like a hen.
If you hold him to the ground for a few seconds (right side up), it shows that you are in charge.
That was funny as f**k Kev. 🤣🤣
i had one turn up about 6 months ago. he arrived very shortly after all but 1 of my ducks were wiped out by predators in one week. the last duck and the pheasant made friends and would hang together. the pheasant would come up and eat of the food bowl from my hand. the duck has since found a pair of wild ducks and hides way out the back. the pheasant recently bought a girl friend home. she was a bit more skittish but now ignores me. she has actually disappeared in the last few weeks, i am assuming she is sitting so one day soon may have babies running around as well.
the boy is still front and center and follows me all over the show. sometimes he gets a bit stroppy, but i noticed he tried to cut me off sometimes form the right, sometimes from the left. so i thought, lets go where you are telling me to go. guess where we ended up? at the food bowl... now if he is bothering me i check there is food in the bowl. hes a bloody cat with feathers!
he had a go at me once, and he got the fight response not the flight response, and has never done it again. seems a swift kick in the guts allowed us to reach an accord. it wasnt hard, but it was instant, more of a reaction from me that lifted him in the air for a bit... still, seemed to have done the trick and now we happily coexist :-) i consider him my pet
Honestly that's not untypical of a male territorial bird. He needs to know who is boss, a soft kick and a yell is what has always worked for me.
Dude you don't kick a bird!!
@@Fireglo Lmao snowflake
How far was the road that was a long one
From memory it's just under a quarter mile, Sian.
"I don't like you anymore", this is making me laugh. Sorry!
guess who reached maturity ! geese and turkey will tear you up also
That thing wud need bootin into next week
lovely just a beautiful specimen. where about?
Hmm i believe they are very territorial?
Very funny! Sorry he got you!
We've got one like this but I'm very cautious. I understand that, when the breeding season comes around and they're "popular" with the ladies, they'll attack anybody around. So best to be careful and not rely on the "friendship" too much since it revolves a lot around territorialism and food.
He is fairly lucky you weren’t hungry and needing food.
He's no different than us when we are very hungry. He is irritable and grouchy and wants to be fed. I didn't know they could inflict that kind of kick.