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Timian after the grooming. I wish you will have a nice and warm weekend.

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On Friday we are taking a trip to the breeder for grooming his fur. So I will post a new picture of him after that so you can all see the different.

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They were running over the road in front of the car in front of me. I did manage to stop and take this picture as they were running away from us.

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This one we don’t have in Norway (Soldattege). The picture is from the Borgholms Slott, Öland, Sweden. They were in the sunny walls of the castle.

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We did see a lot of hares on the Swedish island. This was my best shot as I did miss it when it was sitting down and looking at me.

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The Common Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus), is a bird in the pheasant family (Phasianidae). It is native to Caucasus and Russia and has been widely introduced elsewhere as a game bird. In parts of its range, namely in places where none of its relatives occur such as in Europe (where it is naturalized), it is simply known as the “pheasant”. “Ring-necked Pheasant” is a collective name for a number of subspecies and their crossbreeds. As of 2005, it has the smallest known genome of all living amniotes, only 0.97 pg (970 million base pairs).

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It is a well-known gamebird, among those of more than regional importance perhaps the most widespread and ancient one in the whole world. The Common Pheasant is one of the world’s most hunted birds;[2] it has been introduced for that purpose to many regions, and is also common on game farms where it is commercially bred. Ring-necked Pheasants in particular are commonly bred and were introduced to many parts of the world; the game farm stock, though no distinct breeds have been developed yet, can be considered semi-domesticated. The Ring-necked Pheasant is the state bird of South Dakota, one of only three US state birds that is not a species native to the United States.

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The Green Pheasant (P. versicolor) of Japan is sometimes placed as subspecies within the Common Pheasant. Though the species produce fertile hybrids wherever they coexist, this is simply a typical feature among Galloanseres, in which postzygotic isolating mechanisms are slight compared to most other birds. The species apparently have somewhat different ecological requirements and at least in its typical habitat the Green outcompetes the Common Pheasant; its introduction to Japan has therefore largely failed.

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source: In English Common Pheasant In Norwegian Fasan In Swedish Fasan

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The pictures are taken on Öland, Sweden.

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We are back from Öland, Sweden and we have had a wonderful Easter week with great weather all the time. It was too early for the insects and the butterflies, but we did see a lot of birds and hares.

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(Timian is the name and maybe it is time to remove the Christmas curtains….)
The weekend is here and we wish you all happy days.

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I wish you all a great weekend.

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Our dog simply loves to be out in the snow.

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The last days have been BUSY! But finally it is Christmas and we wish you all a Merry Christmas.

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I have changed my home/front page. What do you think of it?