On the topic of ring-necked pheasants, I once (at least 20 years ago?) saw one fly across Main St in Norwich. It's been too long ago to remember the exact spot, but I think it was near Willey Hill Rd, just as you leave the village. I do remember being quite surprised to see it. I've always assumed it was a released/escaped bird. Bill Schults **************************************** UVB List co-owner e-mail: [log in to unmask] **************************************** On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 11:06 PM, George Clark <[log in to unmask] > wrote: > Mid morning today (April 23), two of us heard what sounded like a > ring-necked pheasant call just once in roughly the same area where you > searched.. Because we heard it only once at a distance and were uncertain > about the ID , we did not pursue the matter further. > > A few years ago, another observer and I at different times independently > saw a male ring-necked pheasant along Campbell Flats Road south of the > intersection with Patterson Road at a time when there was more brushy > vegetation between the road and the river. I saw that bird out in the road > before it disappeared into the brush towards the river. It seems unlikely > that the earlier bird along Campbell Flats Road could have been the same > individual you found today. Pheasants have generally not done well in many > VT winters, and there have apparently been no reports from the vicinity of > Campbell Flats in the interim of many months between today and the previous > sighting. > > > Pheasants are known in the past to have wandered for long distances in VT > and elsewhere so this latest bird could perhaps have come from a > considerable distance. NH has a major release of pheasants each fall for > hunting season, and a pheasant we once found in Weathersfield Bow near the > Connecticut River perhaps came from a NH release. There are apparently no > release sites in NH close to Norwich. Another pheasant I once found along > Clay Hill Road in Hartland was suspected to have originated as an escape > from a private game bird holding facility not too far away but now no > longer at that location. > > George Clark > Norwich, VT > > On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 18:20:09 -0400, Jeannie Kornfeld wrote: > > I was surprised to hear a ring necked pheasant calling from the woods > along the cornfield in the Southwest corner at Campbell Flats this morning. > I have never heard or seen them in VT. Played cat and mouse with this > individual for about half an hour but never got to see him though he called > several times. I grew up seeing and hearing them often in Southeastern Pa > before the fields were converted to housing developments but have had no > sign of them in that part of Pa for many years so it was a welcome sound. > Curious if anyone has had a pheasant at Campbell Flats. > > > To post messages, send e-mail to: [log in to unmask] > Set your e-mail application to PLAIN TEXT ONLY to post messages. > To contact the list owner: [log in to unmask] > To unsubscribe: E-mail this command to [log in to unmask] > UNSUBSCRIBE UV-Birders > To change your e-mail address: E-mail this command from your old address > to: [log in to unmask] CHANGE UV-Birders [new e-mail > address] > > Web based archives and subscription management are available at: > http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/Archives/uv-birders.html > > > To post messages, send e-mail to: [log in to unmask] > Set your e-mail application to PLAIN TEXT ONLY to post messages. > To contact the list owner: [log in to unmask] > To unsubscribe: E-mail this command to [log in to unmask] > UNSUBSCRIBE UV-Birders > To change your e-mail address: E-mail this command from your old address > to: [log in to unmask] CHANGE UV-Birders [new e-mail > address] > > Web based archives and subscription management are available at: > http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/Archives/uv-birders.html > To post messages, send e-mail to: [log in to unmask] Set your e-mail application to PLAIN TEXT ONLY to post messages. To contact the list owner: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe: E-mail this command to [log in to unmask] UNSUBSCRIBE UV-Birders To change your e-mail address: E-mail this command from your old address to: [log in to unmask] CHANGE UV-Birders [new e-mail address] Web based archives and subscription management are available at: http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/Archives/uv-birders.html