{"id":525042,"date":"2026-04-11T11:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T11:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/525042\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T11:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T11:14:09","slug":"pheasants-spotted-in-east-sussex-ahead-of-nesting-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/525042\/","title":{"rendered":"Pheasants spotted in East Sussex ahead of nesting season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theargus.co.uk\/news\/24970017.spent-day-east-sussex-wras---saw\/?utm_medium=M&amp;utm_source=Martina&amp;Campaign=subeditor_added_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">East Sussex<\/a> Wildlife Rescue and Ambulance Service (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theargus.co.uk\/news\/24970017.spent-day-east-sussex-wras---saw\/?utm_medium=M&amp;utm_source=Martina&amp;Campaign=subeditor_added_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">WRAS) shared a photo of the birds<\/a> nesting on grass behind a stop sign at a junction in East Sussex, with the male standing guard over the female as she incubated her eggs.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The rescue service said that as the summer nesting season begins, bird species will be trying to find safe places to create their nests and lay eggs.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>The pair of pheasants were found nesting behind the stop sign on this busy Sussex junction (Image: WRAS)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A WRAS spokesman said: &#8220;However, their version of &#8216;safe&#8217; is not the same as ours &#8211; as this photo demonstrates.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;On the grass just behind the stop sign, a female pheasant is sat on her clutch of eggs, with the male proudly defending his partner!\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;They are quite happy, uninjured, and will hopefully remain undisturbed for the duration of the eggs incubation &#8211; therefore we leave them well alone.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The WRAS urged Sussex residents to remember that all birds, eggs and nests are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Inside the East Sussex WRAS hospital (Image: The Argus)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The rescue service said: &#8220;Unless you hold a licence, it is illegal to damage, destroy or disturb them.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Support our wildlife this breeding and nesting season and &#8211; unless there is cause for concern or visible injury &#8211; leave well alone.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theargus.co.uk\/news\/24970017.spent-day-east-sussex-wras---saw\/#:~:text=The%20day%20I%20spent%20with%20the%20East%20Sussex%20WRAS%20team%20was%20one%20they%20described%20as%20slow%2C%20with%20their%20busiest%20period%20spanning%20the%20summer%20months%2C%20during%20which%20time%20the%20hospital%20can%20hit%20capacity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">East Sussex WRAS says its busiest period spans the summer months<\/a>, when its wildlife hospital near Lewes can reach capacity.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The charity said its hospital can house up to 450 animals needing rehabilitation, depending on their size and species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"East Sussex Wildlife Rescue and Ambulance Service (WRAS) shared a photo of the birds nesting on grass behind&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-525042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}