More gardening wildlife

[galina]

We have a lot of pheasants living in the hedge at the bottom of our garden. They screach noisily, ate all the tops of my garlic and parsley (both recovered, no problem). Now we get eggs in our garden several times a week, laid in cut-grass mulch.

Unfortunately these eggs are abandoned by mother pheasant just as soon as they are produced. Other wild creatures enjoy a meal and these eggs disappear about as fast as they are abandoned.

Last time I went to fetch the camera and by the time I returned the egg had gone, but I managed to snap this one!

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[plantsnobin]

Cool. Do you have an incubator? Sounds like free food.

[galina]

Yes it does. DH does not want chickens or any pets (allergies) so making any use of these eggs is academic. Just a pity mother pheasant goes to so much trouble and then abandons the eggs so readily.