Pintade farcie

Walking through the woods and fields of the Châtaigneraie you are quite likely to encounter a freely roaming flock of guinea fowl foraging for insects and grain in the leafmould and hedgerows. When they are surprised, their defence mechanism is to form a solid undulating and ululating mass which, as it careers this way and that, looks like some large and alarming creature. Or at least that is what they think. Wily Reynard is not fooled, of course, and people who have flocks