Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Identity?



Any thoughts on this bird seen in the long grass on Aug 15th alongside Castle Carr Road? On first site (head above the grass)we had it down for a Red Grouse! Then, on closer approach it did not flush but started contact calling and we located c6 3/4 day old chicks with it! Just didn't look quite right for a normal female Pheasant!!! Do keepers keep Black Francolins??? Any ideas.........?

1 comment:

Daniel Branch said...

there are some guineafowl keepers just below soil hill but i dont know if they keep black francolins aswell.