Chicks away!

Suddenly a dozen chicks ran across our local golf course.
Fortunately there were no golfers around.

Where had they come from?
Then I see the mother, a hen pheasant slinking through the grass.

Will they survive? apart from the golfers this is a popular area for walkers and their dogs and the local cats frequent the fields.

The big surprise is that the pheasant had chosen to nest so close to human habitation.