eyeball to eyeball

I was just picking up my camera to go out for a coffee when I spotted a cock pheasant in the garden.

It saw me too, and walked cautiously across the grass to the nearest flowerbed. It hid itself in there and watched me. The red colouring around its eye is the giveaway. Otherwise the camouflage is pretty good.

It isn't the bird I Blipped last month. That one is still around - strutting along the pavement as I drove off for the coffee.