the beast of girton

[woolymonkey]

I couldn't get Humbug to come in tonight so I went down the garden to see if he'd got stuck in a tree or been cornered by one of the farm cats. I found him crouched over a freshly killed pheasant.

He let me bring it, and him, in and was apparently happy to trade it for a pouch of Whiskas. Sunday lunch at the monkey house will be pheasant casserole.

Comments

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Yay! The Bug feeds his family!

(Mac plans to feed us on scrub jays, American sparrows, and other little irritants not yet identified...)

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

May I recommend The Roadkill Cookbook? Never mind details of demise, it has some handy cooking tips. Also recipes for CAT.

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

We started with roadkill recipe instructions off teh interwebs but decided the English shooting classes know best on these matters: http://www.shootinguk.co.uk/homefeature/524353/How_to_prepare_a_pheasant__with_Amy_Willcock.html
"At the end of your shoot you'll be given a brace of pheasants..." You pluck them on a newspaper. Apparently, it doesn't actually have to be the Telegraph, but I'm sure it helps.

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

Bug is very proud. Also very full since he ate the liver, heart and 5 partially formed eggs. He hunts, I prepare it: symbiosis. Pheasant is now stewing with bacon and sausages. He may well get some more.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Splendid Bug. I've never eaten a partially-formed egg; they must be a delicacy somewhere...

[woolymonkey.livejournal.com]

You know how egg yolks look when you've separated eggs and managed not to break them? There were 8 things like that in amongst the innards, decreasing in size from large marble to very small petit pois. There was also one proper egg that apes cooked and ate. Maybe the shell was thinner than normal but I don't know what's normal for pheasant eggs.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Me neither. Don't think I've ever cooked or eaten a pheasant's egg. And I'm delighted to learn that they line up in formation, like an assembly-line. That hadn't occurred to me, that a bird would be working on more than one at once; I suppose I just never thought about it. Humbug has taught us all a lesson today...