Monday 26 May 2014

Someone's sitting by my vegetables


Walking down to check on my vegetables I found someone else down there checking them out - our red-legged partridge!!!

From the BBC website I discovered the following:
Red-legged partridges are surprisingly hard to spot. Despite such colourful plumage, they blend remarkably well into their preferred habitat of heaths and downs. During the breeding season, these partridges have the unusual occasional habit of laying two clutches of eggs in different nests. One clutch is incubated by the female, the other by the male. They were first successfully introduced into Britain during the reign of King Charles ІІ, who was anxious to establish the birds since numbers of the native partridge were falling as a result of over-hunting.

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