Green pheasant

Trev4 · 14 Apr 2011

I saw this pheasant while out birding, I have never seen such colours on a bird before. I understand its a sub-species of the Japanese Green Pheasant, more than I havent found out yet.

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Michigan green pheasant by Trev4 Photography, on Flickr

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Michigan green pheasant by Trev4 Photography, on Flickr

Thanks for looking
C & C Welcome

billybob99 · 14 Apr 2011

He's beautifully coloured that's for sure

DOTTYROSS · 14 Apr 2011

I agree Trev, beautiful colours and well spotted.

Regards: Gordon

Graham00 · 14 Apr 2011

There's tons of pheasants out in the fens here, but not like that one, well caught it's nice to see a different coloured creature.

artyman · 14 Apr 2011

Certainly seems a bit more colourful around the neck

davep90 · 14 Apr 2011

you captured some fantastic colour there. nice

fernface · 14 Apr 2011

That is really nice Trev, there are a few different colours i have noticed around Brionys, but not one like that, really like it

salacalvet · 14 Apr 2011

Love the photos

I would say its a hybrid at some part of its blood line..saw a female hybrid with different head markings that was stunning.

scottthehat · 14 Apr 2011

1st one loks good nice colours, but the 2nd one looks like its been stuck on.

Trev4 · 14 Apr 2011

billybob99 said:
He's beautifully coloured that's for sure

DOTTYROSS said:
I agree Trev, beautiful colours and well spotted.

Regards: Gordon

Graham00 said:
There's tons of pheasants out in the fens here, but not like that one, well caught it's nice to see a different coloured creature.

artyman said:
Certainly seems a bit more colourful around the neck

davep90 said:
you captured some fantastic colour there. nice

fernface said:
That is really nice Trev, there are a few different colours i have noticed around Brionys, but not one like that, really like it

salacalvet said:
Love the photos

I would say its a hybrid at some part of its blood line..saw a female hybrid with different head markings that was stunning.

Thanks everyone for your kind comments. I was in a hide with John Starkey taking small bird when this chap walked in, we were both surprised by the colours, something I have never seen before and a pleasure to see.
Thanks again

Trev4 · 14 Apr 2011

scottthehat said:
1st one loks good nice colours, but the 2nd one looks like its been stuck on.

Well spotted Scott, I was waiting to see who would be the first to spot it.
The truth is that this pheasant was so close to the hide, and I only had a 500mm lens, I couldnt get him all in frame by a long way, but wasnt going to miss out on taking a shot of such a beautiful bird. Even standing at the back of the hide didnt help to any degree.
In the end I took 4 pictures of him to cover him head to tail. I took many more in fact but these were taken as quick as I could so they were taken while he was in the same general position.
I joined all 4 together to get a whole picture of him, but that left the BG looking totally wrong. All I could do was to place him on a new BG, but no matter how I tried, I couldnt get it to look genuine, this was the best clumsy effort I could do.

Thanks for you comments

mark richards · 15 Apr 2011

nice shots of a cracking bird...mark

Trev4 · 16 Apr 2011

mark richards said:
nice shots of a cracking bird...mark

Thanks Mark

john starkey · 16 Apr 2011

He was certainly a handsome chap Trev,you managed to get more of him than me well done,i sussed that the second lol

john.

Robwad · 17 Apr 2011

I think we take these birds for granted............for colour and vibrancy they take a lot of beating.