Red-Legged Partridge

Today my cat brought me a red-legged partridge. My first instinct was to lock her out to save on feather carnage, my second, was to look on You-Tube for plucking and gutting instructions. I watched someone make a competent amateur mess of a partridge, gathered my energies, gritted my teeth , and went in…..

red- legged partridge

sporting his feathers

the hunter’s apprentice

I do have pictures of said bird plucked and cooked, just in case you don’t believe me……..