Recent litigation has settled a dispute between two neighbouring landowners in Sussex involving pheasants and grapes. On the one side, one ran a large-scale pheasant shoot (on what I would deem to be inappropriate land) and on the other, a vineyard producing high-quality English wine.
During the autumns when substantial numbers of young birds are released and there being insufficient cover for them, they habitually fly towards the vineyard and lo behold, here there would waiting for them, a vast feast of grapes! Over a period of 6 years, they consumed an estimated 33 tonnes of grapes, equivalent to 30,000 bottles of wine, which retail @ £26 a bottle.
The shoots insurers have recently agreed to a heavy out of court settlement in favour of the proprietor of the vineyard.