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Pet Pheasant ‘Fezziwig’ (Phasianus colchicus)

Sunday, September 20th, 2009
'Pet' Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus)

'Pet' Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus)

Sometime ago we named a male pheasant who appeared to be very friendly ‘Fezziwig’ (The name of Dicken’s Scrooge first boss). Fezziwig has now shown a remarkable behaviour, whenever we sit down for dinner (tea) he appears on the patio looking for food!

Now you might think that is not that clever as we must surely sit down at the same time every night. But that is not true. We can be later or early by an hour and he still appears. We have drawn the following conclusions why:

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