Pheasants loose on the road

For the record, pheasant are bred for the guns and released from their pens into the wild a few days before the season starts on October 1st. The season ends February 1st. Those birds still at large have managed to avoid being shot! They live as wild birds but most responsible gamekeepers will still keep a supply of food going at the breeding pen to ensure they do not starve to death. At this time of year cock pheasant are very aggressive towards each other and compete & fight for territory and females. I killed one on the road yesterday because it was concentrating on fighting with two others. After it stopped rolling the other two went for it with the sharp spurs on their legs.

Pheasants are indeed bred, very commercially. As for their suicidal tendencies on the road - if you knew you'd been bred just to be shot by some Hooray henry for kicks, you too might think "flip that" and run in front of a car.

Are you for real? Pheasants arent bred, theyre a naturalised species & have been for decades-its no ones responsibilty to keep them 'locked up' as you put it. I suppose you think all the pigeons in the uk are the result of some pesky show breeder & that your fruit, meat & veg all 'grow' on the shelves in the supermarket? It makes me laugh that you fefer to the birds as being dim...

I was only talking about birds, since they are always on the road, I would really panic if it was a huge stag!
All Im saying is that I would rather (if I had to) hit a bird than cause an accident and hurt humans.
When I say humans, I mean the average law abiding person, not scum such as Ian Huntley- I would never swerve if he was in the road.

To sensible person, you wrote...

"I think most sane people in this world would say that humans are more important than birds"

Yeah, I'll save the neck of double child killer Ian Huntley over a pheasant any day of the week.

You may sit there and type along on how only an idiot would swerve and emergency stop to prevent hitting an animal on the road, a bird. Try hitting a stag, it's still an animal on the road and they roam onto the highways just as much as a pheasant does.

This is a discussion about birds running in front of cars, not humans.
I think most sane people in this world would say that humans are more important than birds, not that we should aim for birds, but if when driving along one runs out in front of you, only an idiot would swerve or do an emergency stop endangering the lives of humans to save a BIRD!

"the life of a human is more imortant than that of a bird!" Who made you creater of all life on earth?

"They can cause serious accidents" Oh, and I suppose humans don't cause any at all.

You, sir, are a norb.

I totaly agree with keeping pheasants in a certain area away from roads even if this does mean locking up because at the end of the day the life of a human is more imortant than that of a bird! They can cause serious accidents. For example yesterday I was driving along a country road and one dashed out in front of me. Had I of panicked and swerved or braked, the person behind would have ploughed into the back of me, causing a huge accident, (since I was driving at 55mph). Luckily, no onewas hurt, although it has caused almost £1000 damage since I need from the bonnet down replacing because the stupid thing left and hole and cracked all along the front of the car!
There is never a good reason to brake for any animal - it can cause accidents and whoever thinks that an animal such as a bird, mouse, rabbit etc is more important than a human, has serious poblems!!

I just have to say that the person below saying that it is illegal to take "evasive" action due to the presence of small animals on the road, needs their head checking! If you are driving on a country road then you should prepare yourself for the fact that animals are running around, therefore you should be cautious and brake when needed, because at the end of the day you are sparing a life! Why should you continue, especially when you as a person can make a judgment about when it is safe or not, it is the person behind you that needs to be just as aware and be prepared to break as well. What kind of callous person would run over a cat or a dog just because somewhere in their stupid sick heads they believed that the law stated that you shouldnt stop for small animals!

I quite like pheasants- very tasty!. On the serious side, get used to pheasants wondering around randomly in the countryside, if you can't, take the bus!.

who is this person who 'gripes' about such random things as pheasants being loose on roads? I mean why do you care? there are much more important things going on in the world that people should make a stand about than pheasants being loose on roads like children starving in africa. I can understand why you wrote a page about smoking in public places because that is something that people should think about as it affects the health of other people not just them but pheasants being on roads that is just ridiculous.

A Dead Pheasants' Society should be set up, one dedicated to collecting the flesh of wild animals found as roadkill by the side of our highways and byways. Such a Society could dine in style once a week, and when we dine I mean the full works - dinner jacket speeches, toastmasters, the lot.

Puffing away on a cigar whilst feasting on my dead pigeon is a very tasty combination. Like vultures we can indulge on such carrion. A carefully prepared dead torso of one of these beasties is a pleeasure much the same as another, and during the proceedings we could wassail the poor creature's former life and exploits in the wild, whilst discussing which species provides the best entertainment. We could even screen films when port was served showing one of these being run over by a hit-and-run driver.