random pic from pa yesterday

just a few shots when I was in pa , This farm raises pheasants to release on the property and people pay to hunt there, I just took a picture because it was nice scenery, It is on a back road not too far from our place.

(reply to post at 05:21:19 10/16/11)

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Very neat............... You've also been doing a good job cutting back on them green tractor pics............

Hi Larry, Thanks for alway's posting nice pictures and scenery from your area. This has me almost tempted to take a drive down that way from Nova Scotia. The fall season passes so quickly and the scenery is alway's beautiful. Cheers, Murray

Larry do any of those Pheasants that get past the hunters survive the elements on their own?


Between the wet nesting periods, hash winters and other factors they are all but gone here in SE Iowa.

The Iowa DNR is allowing pen raised pheasants to be released and just wondering if they will survive on their own??

Gary

I dont really know the answer,I dont see any pheasants around our place,we started going there when I was about 12 so that was 44 years ago ,and I remember seeing flocks of pheasants on the hillsides ,now you see none, I dont know why,

stop by,any weekend , it would be nice to meet you

Are all the back roads in the east paved? Out here, that would be a pretty main road. Nice scenery anyways.
David

most of them are,we still have some that arent paved,but there is not many farms on that road ,it leads to an old one room school house

Coyote, fox and the like seem to eliminate them around here. We used to have flocks of them too, in the 70's and that was when our land was all in crops, not nearly as much cover as there is now. Anything that does not roost in trees, seems to not live all that long, though we have grouse and or partridge, I forget which is which, one of these seem to survive, not in great numbers but there are always some around.

The last ones I saw here was 1 male when I was a senior in high school, and somewhere around '01, '02, was eating breakfast, looked out the window and the male dropped in, soon thereafter a female showed up, now a breeding pair, they were around for about 2 years, though the female disappeared first, they both had to be smart to make it that long. They used to come up to the bird feeder, hide under the pines in the yard.

The male was actually incredible, I really enjoyed seeing him, which was quite often. Problem was that darned fox was always on his tail, literally, several times he narrowly escaped as I saw while deer hunting, he used to come down to my stand.

One of the last times I saw this pheasant, I heard him, as if he was calling me or a distress signal. Near my house, was in my yard, so I head over about 100 yards, to where I heard him.

What I saw was just hard to believe at first, I walked smack into a large, very healthy red fox, I mean picture perfect, bigger than any I have ever seen before. He pays no attention to me, is sniffing intently, can't say he saw or smelled me, fox just kept doing what he was doing. I look to my right in the thicket, and there is that pheasant, very very carefully, tip toe'ng away. He blended in with the background, fox could not see him, that fox was so close it would have been an easy handgun shot. That pheasant, escaped right in front of me, slowly, carefully disappeared, fox never figured it out, they both went in opposite directions. Why that bird was making noise, within my earshot, which prompted me to investigate, and witness this situation, I'll never know, fox must have just caught up, coincidence, I knew it was that pheasant when I heard it. Both had to have been released from somewhere nearby, neither of them were dumb, from what I saw, or would expect from ones raised and released. Too bad they don't roost in trees like turkeys, as they survive just fine, I always liked pheasants, even when this one was around doing annoying things, he'd be on my pick up truck tonneau cover making footprints, come up on the front porch, quite the character this bird was.

Larry, That second picture is absolutely beautiful.
It is now my computer background picture.
Thank you for taking the time to post all the wonderful pictures.
I really do enjoy them!

I can't speak for Larry's part of PA but here in western PA we do have pheasants that will survive the winters and reproduce. I love Ringneck hunting. And you can tell the difference in the stocked birds over the wild ones.

I have started looking forward to the weekend to see what Larry will post! That second shot is a calendar picture if there ever was one! That country is just as pretty as North Carolina! We never had many pheasants in this area, but had Bob White quail. Loved to hear them calling each other. Haven't seen one in about ten years now. The NC Dept. of Ag. has been trying to figure out how to get them to survive, they are working with some farmers experimenting with leaving areas of uncut vegetation, etc. for cover.

Beautiful country side as always near your farm.

Thanks for sharing your photos with us.

did you take that near benton PA ,, looks really familiar . were they stacking stone there ??

Hi Larry,Probably won't be travelling too far from home during the fall/winter months. I guess the spring scenery is just as nice as the fall. We do have somthing similar as I assume from your pictures you have two homes. We keep two homes one in the city , where I alway's worked and another 100 miles away in the country where all my side of the family reside. We alway's have grass to mow and weeds to remove in the garden. We have been retired for 15 years, still don't have much time for travelling. Cheers, Murray

Larry

Thanks for the pictures, as always I enjoy them, they're impressive to say the least. Gregg

Hi here in ks. there are birds but our park & wildlife have know clue how manage them or give a farmer brake or helping them.

I want to move north.