This sounds like the behavior of a recently released bird. If you ask around
the neighborhood, you might eventually discover a pheasant fancier (usually a
hunter) who raises them from chicks and then releases them in the surrounding
countryside, hoping they will become established.
Or the pheasant fancier might just find you - that's what happened to me. One
day a guy who lives several miles from me just stopped by and asked if I'd been
seeing any of the young pheasants he had released on my land!
-Geo
On Apr 29, 2013, at 2:47 PM, Richard Tkachuck wrote:
> Today as I look out of my study window, I see a female ring-neck moving about
> the yard. She has been here for about 5 hours taking some seed from under a
> feeder, but mostly by my car. She has picked some smashed insects off of the
> grill and has mostly done a whole lot of nothing. We noticed her a few days
> ago in the field across the road spending time in a limited area. She looks
> healthy. Just wondering what may be going on. BTW, we are about 25 miles away
> from the Cornell pheasant farm, so we are assuming this is a wild bird.
>
> Richard Tkachuck
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