to be shocked someone hung dead pheasant on my front gate

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Opened my front gate around 10minutes ago to let cat in and there was something hanging on the front gate. I am in pj's, so husband went out and there was a dead pheasant hanging from string from our front gate. We live in London.

I don't know if it was some prank by kids or something sinister.

Can anyone shed any light on this?

Just the dead bird thing. I'm just trying to imagine what it could be. If it has any significance. There was a dead pheasant hung by string on my gate by god knows who. It's not normality.

Our neighbour does this all the time for us. The ducks are more startling tbh.

We live in the sticks. In London (where we used to live) I'd be a bit where would you even find a pheasant?!

Gang? I am laughing imagining a gang member hunting pheasant!

Maybe it's the pin feathers that are the voodoo bit. ARF at phessie voodoo, now if it were a headless chicken...

DH shoots and eats pheasant despite it tasting vile, but never heard of voodoo links. I am pretty sure pheasants aren't native to Haiti where voodoo comes from!

I was thinking more gang or voodoo

PMSL.

If it was hung by its feet, and they were tied with string, it's a gift.

We were having a house party at my best friend's house when we were 17, and found that someone had put two dead lambs on the drive.

Now that was bloody creepy.

No. I don't know anything about gangs. Shall feel a bit worried now. Will log with 101.

I'm in SE London and if you drive out about 5 miles you will see pheasants, so not an impossibility that someone would be able to shoot some and by someone, I mean not a gang member

Has it got a piece of nasty old orange baler twine round it's neck? Cos that would indicate it was a gift from the country more than anything else.

Round here it would be a present. My parents often get home to find dead pheasants hanging from their gate as they know people who go and shoot them. (not gang-related).

I'm dying at gang related game bird voodoo. Dying.

Me too Scarer

Sorry OP.

Perhaps it was a pheasant that strayed into the wrong postcode?

I had a headless crow on my patio yesterday. Mafia, I reckon.

and not my bastarding cat

I used to work in a very old fashioned pub and we used to hang pheasents in the tap room where the beer was served from. We had one group of potential diners walk out once when they saw them!

I may have been misunderstanding the news reports on London's rising tide of gang violence, but I don't think pheasants tend to be involved.

Although IME gift pheasants tend to be less-than-entirely-legally obtained so there's technically a criminal element involved.

@ SomethingOnce

Now I'm wondering what I should really make of the dove in my Futility Room.

A messenger from God, maybe?

You just wouldn't do that in London

If you were going to give someone a dead bird as a gift, you'd knock on the door and hand it over...not hang it on the gate.

Maybe Noah wants to bring Ark II to your garden, Scarer?

It's a harvest gift. And cooked with a red wine and cranberry jus, served with root veg, will taste divine.