What a Pheasant surprise!

Literally.
Just looked out the back window and saw this beautiful bird basking in the sunshine on my neighbours shed roof.
Had to carefully open the back door to hastily grab a couple of pics before he shot off over the fields.
Crap quality, but didn't get chance to check settings etc before grabbing him.
Handheld with 500 so couldn't get all of him in the frame @ about 20 feet.

Nice shots with beautiful bokeh.

Nice shots. Yup, he heard something in that 30D he didn't like. Sometimes though, they are pretty bold.

nice shots hes a lovely colour to....

There bold but stupid birds... they tend to fly into cars

Love that first shot...nice light on a beautiful bird...If I saw something like that, I would most likely drop my camera...ha..ha. Hope it comes back again for you!

Thanks all.
Yes, they are rather stupid birds but at the end of the shooting season they boldly strut about the fields as if to say "Ha, you can't shoot me now", so guess they must be clever too.
He occasionally lands up on the neighbours shed as a take off point, once he's had a good look to see what's going on in the other gardens, but rarely ever comes into mine as I have high hedges which makes it a bit of a steep short take off for him.
The sun shining on his golden breast was really stunning, and a shame I only had about a minute (if that) to grab the camera and snap him.

nice set - No1 for me love the way you got the light on him .
Rob.