Wildlife chez nous

We had an unusual visitor in our garden two
days ago. I put the camera on an automatic
setting and took about 30 shots of this
pheasant (it's a male Common Pheasant, BTW).
This is one of my better ones, though it's
overexposed. The bird was fairly tame - it
didn't fly off when I opened the patio door
to get some better quality photos of it, and
it was very keen to get inside our house.
Luckily, our cats were nowhere to be seen.
Here's another shot of it, to show you its
brilliant plumage.