Perfection...

The perfect pheasant!  What a beauty...  :-)

Not so thrilled with the sharpness though - it looked much sharper before I uploaded it - honest. ;-)

And as you can see, it has snowed here.  I woke up to a (dreaded!) blanket of white, but thankfully it melted very quickly and by the time I took this at 8:15 it was mostly gone.