Losing battle
For several weeks now the hen pheasants have been picking and scratching their way across the "lawn". I assumed they were looking for bugs to eat. Increasingly frequently, one would stop and scrape out quite a large hole and then sit, fluffed up, in it. I would race out of the house waving my arms and shouting, to their mild astonishment. Eventually I started filling up the holes and putting something on top, like a old roof tile, to stop them. But they just move on to another patch in the lawn. Eventually I gave up and collected my roof tiles. I was surprised to find that the underside of each was crawling with ants. The pheasants appear to have been digging the top off ants nests and then sitting on them. I can only imagine that either they like being tickled or the ants remove parasites. So here you have four pheasants possibly having a communal ant bath.
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