These are aquatic, the chiggers seem to be terrestrial. Hopefully they aren't parasitic for humans.
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Yeah was a bit of stretch they just moved around like them and were red. They are the most dangerous thing we have Hobbiton apart from the psycho pheasant that I had to cosh with a bucket of biochar a few weeks back. 😆
Psycho pheasant?! What was it trying to do?
Well like a lot of psychopaths it was quite charming and friendly to begin with. Hanging out watching me applying some biochar to the soil, then it started following me round the garden. Then running after me squawking like a bit of a nutter. After that he is lungeing for my ankles so I use the bucket as a barrier. I eventually side step his next lunge and hit him for 6 with a satisfying *thunk* into the hedge...with associated squawky pissed off pheasant sounds.
At another customers house years ago one jumped out of the hedge just as I was leaving squawking like a Karen. It starts tearing towards me so I jump in the car and drive off, looking in the rear view mirror he's still there chasing me up the drive. It wasn't until I got to the main road that I got rid of him.
I must look like the local gamekeeper or something I dunno 🤷.
That's the bucket bashing bastard:
Wow, didn't know they were aggressive like that, I've only ever seen them at a distance. I feel like there's a children's book in this, Percival the Pheasant Gets Knocked for Six: A story about minding your own business.
😂yeah they either look suave and sophisticated or they are completely nuts. A bit like English people in general really.
Another Percival attacked a elderly customer so much they took her to the hospital for wound dressing so a neighbour came round to introduce him to Mr Shotgun.
The sequel sounds more like a black comedy or cook book.