Melanistic Mutant Pheasant aka Black Pheasant…2 ran loose in our rural neighborhood for months..wary, so baited them with corn for photos…
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Plenty of "escapees" or "survivors" milling around up on The Ridgeway this morning enjoying the first decent morning of sunshine. (1-2) Red legged Partridges. (3-4) Pheasants #birds #bird #gamebirds #birdphotography

A Ring-necked Pheasant slowly strolled across the road giving me time to stop my truck though I still had to shoot through my tinted window to capture him…
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California Quail pair…part of our eastern Washington state backyard covey of about 30…female only incubates 10-16 eggs usually in ground nests often under brush piles for 18-23 days…
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A pair of California Quail that are part of a flock of approximately 30 we’ve been feeding cracked corn in our back yard in the Yakima Valley, Washington state…
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