Yes a covey of Partridge, there were at least seven although we only managed to photograph five all together.
We suspect that they had arrived in our garden in order to escape the hunters, who could be heard in the local woods, horns a blowing...
At the time of writing they were still there... happily eating some of last years bird seed we scattered around for them.
As they are behind our 1.75 mtr high fence we wonder if they have the intelligence to fly out over it, instead of scurrying backwards and forwards along its base.
We are sure the local cats will make them fly somewhere tonight! Perhaps into our Pear Trees which are just adjacent to where they are!!
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Hey... that's great... they're Grey Partridge... quite rare nowadays, both here in France and in the UK. Normally you see the Red-legged [or French] Partridge. A partridge only flies when pressed... but where do you press it?
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