Great pheasant shot Lenny. They're hard to get in good light in the USA. I went to England and saw them wandering around like chickens when I learned that the country folk feed and raise them so that the Londoners can come out to shoot them in the fall. In the USA they're (mostly) wild and very wary.
After years of trying to shoot these guys in flight, here's my favorite shot to date:
Ring-necked pheasant flies... by
dcstep, on Flickr