Showing posts with label black pheasant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label black pheasant. Show all posts
Monday, 10 June 2013
VIDEO of THE BLACK PHEASANT - PHASIANUS COLCHICUS v. TENEBROSUS
I finally get to photo and video that Black Pheasant that proved elusive last year...or the year before, lol.
Saturday, 8 June 2013
IN SEARCH OF THE BLACK PHEASANT - PHASIANUS COLCHICUS
THE BLIGHTER!!
This is one I followed about either last year or the year before and I had one of my brothers with me at the time who also saw it.
In fact I did not even think it was a Pheasant at first and did not know what it was.
SO a few days back and a hundred yards from reaching an Orchid site I spotted the same Cock Pheasant out in the open and immediately hit the brakes. I scrambled to get the new camera with a 40x zoom and a large objective lens, as opposed to the 14x zoom of the previous camera with a tiny objective lens.
So after spotting a second Black Pheasant pair a couple hundred yards from my house I end up spotting this first one I saw over 5 miles from my house!
Probably wont be thought much of but I thought it cool, lol.
I should be very careful about using scientific names as there can be different species and also sub-species and I know nothing of these dark Pheasants.
People who are armchair experts can spout words like melanistic, leutistic, amelanistic and many other terms as these have been bounded about a fair amount in recent years by hobbyists. I do not just mean in the world of birds either as it is rife in herpetology too.
But in nature morphological differences along with thos of recent mutations, genetic differences and simple location colour differences are still trying to be understood.
To me it is unusual to not only see something this different in colour to the norm but to do so, so often and suddenly.
Suggests something escaped and there are a great many different species of Pheasant in Asia where they all originate from, along with my favourite the Golden Pheasant and a new one, apparently found in the UK, whose name I cannot recall right now, lol.
This is one I followed about either last year or the year before and I had one of my brothers with me at the time who also saw it.
In fact I did not even think it was a Pheasant at first and did not know what it was.
SO a few days back and a hundred yards from reaching an Orchid site I spotted the same Cock Pheasant out in the open and immediately hit the brakes. I scrambled to get the new camera with a 40x zoom and a large objective lens, as opposed to the 14x zoom of the previous camera with a tiny objective lens.
So after spotting a second Black Pheasant pair a couple hundred yards from my house I end up spotting this first one I saw over 5 miles from my house!
Probably wont be thought much of but I thought it cool, lol.
I should be very careful about using scientific names as there can be different species and also sub-species and I know nothing of these dark Pheasants.
People who are armchair experts can spout words like melanistic, leutistic, amelanistic and many other terms as these have been bounded about a fair amount in recent years by hobbyists. I do not just mean in the world of birds either as it is rife in herpetology too.
But in nature morphological differences along with thos of recent mutations, genetic differences and simple location colour differences are still trying to be understood.
To me it is unusual to not only see something this different in colour to the norm but to do so, so often and suddenly.
Suggests something escaped and there are a great many different species of Pheasant in Asia where they all originate from, along with my favourite the Golden Pheasant and a new one, apparently found in the UK, whose name I cannot recall right now, lol.
Thursday, 6 June 2013
IN SEARCH OF THE BLACK PHEASANT
Blimey have I got some real treats for you?!
The odd part is I will only put up two posts of a dozen as I am out of it and tomorrow I am out yet again and much further afield too boot.
Tomorrows excursion could really be a game changer in more ways than one?!
Here is a Black Pheasant I have been after for two years near one of the Orchid sites I visit!
The odd part is I will only put up two posts of a dozen as I am out of it and tomorrow I am out yet again and much further afield too boot.
Tomorrows excursion could really be a game changer in more ways than one?!
Here is a Black Pheasant I have been after for two years near one of the Orchid sites I visit!
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