The Revenant

We had reconciled ourselves to nature, red in tooth and claw, or even a dinner-focussed  neighbour, being responsible for the absence, for five days, of Phanny the Pheasant.  But she's obviously just been dining elsewhere  or busy with Christmas shopping because ten minutes ago she had the butler leaping from his seat to  imperil The Tree by opening the patio doors to feed her sunflower seeds.