Calling Card

The strange marks from top left to bottom right of our kitchen window were left by a pheasant which flew into the widow. This has happened before and it appears that on bright, sunny days they mistake the reflection of the garden for the real thing. The impact knocks out the dust from their plumage and it imprints onto the glass.

Happily they always seem to survive. The one time I witnessed the event, the pheasant staggered away across the garden like the grouse in the Famous Grouse whisky commercial.