Know your pheasants
Most animals are creatures of habit - and the pheasant is no exception. An easy way to bring home more birds on your next pheasant hunting trip is to learn all you can about the local population. For the most part, pheasants will have similar patterns wherever you go.
Pheasants have roosting areas, feeding areas, resting areas and plenty of paths between the two. On any given day, a pheasant will wake with the sun and head to the closest breakfast spot. Usually, this will be a crop field or a grassy area with plenty of food on offer. They’ll eat for a hour or more and then find a nice spot to have a rest. This will be a relatively sheltered area, usually near the edge of the field the pheasants find their food. After a few hours of lazing about in the field, the pheasants will again head out for a bite to eat. Following this evening meal, the birds retire again to their roosting area.
It’s worth knowing that pheasants will quite happily occupy a compact habitat that includes roosting, feeding and loafing ground when possible - many are known to spend the bulk of their lives within a half-mile circle.
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