Mother pheasant returns with her chicks!

Remember the empty nest syndrome when  our wild pheasant decided to have her nest in the garden and she bravely sat and incubated her eggs through all that dreadful wet weather and the first day of anything like decent weather they hatched and were gone. She would take her young chicks away from here to try and keep them safe as pheasants are very nervous and shy when they have young with them. Today she returned with four chicks who are now quite strong and growing. I managed to sneak a photo of them whist they were searching for bits of peanuts that had fallen out of the bird feeders hung in a tree in the orchard.

Hen pheasant returns with her chicks