The cock pheasant has seen off dogs, a cat and several vehicles at the farm
In scenes worthy of a Hitchcock film, a furious pheasant is besieging a farmhouse and leaving a terrified family too fearful to venture outside without protection.
Farmer's wife Anne-Marie Hamilton said their feathered terrorist has also been menacing visitors to Wood Farm, attacking vehicles and chasing cats and dogs.
A delivery driver was trapped at the farm in Weston, Cambridgeshire, for 20 minutes after the male bird blocked his path, flew at the bonnet and then chased his van.
Mrs Hamilton, who described the pheasant as "a complete lunatic", said family and visitors can only venture into the farmyard armed with "a big stick' to deter the pheasant from attacking.
"It's an absolute nightmare," said Mrs Hamilton. "Even when you can't see him, you can hear him lurking about. He's never far away so you can't let your guard down. He's a holy terror.
"Thanks to a back injury I'm having to use crutches, so at least I'm already armed and ready for him. It's hilarious in some ways but if anyone wants to go out into the garden they have to take a big stick with them."
The British Trust for Ornithology said pheasants were known to be territorial and would protect their territory, but said that the Wood Farm bird was "a little extreme".
Mrs Hamilton, who with her husband Robert, has lived on the arable farm since 1986, said she was used to pheasants visiting but had never had to face such aggressive behaviour before.
"He really has been terrorising us," she said. "He's not at all wary of people, or dogs. He chased my poor Jack Russell all the way down the farm track and back home. The poor dog was exhausted.
"One young girl was having her first driving lesson on our land and could not move the car because the pheasant would not leave it alone. I don't think we'll see our delivery driver for a while either," Mrs Hamilton added.
When the bird is not rampaging around the farm and seeing off her dogs, cats and visitors' vehicles, the pheasant has taken up residence outside her patio doors.
"We have to keep a big stick there so we can get in and out," she said. "The fact that he doesn't back off even if he sees you with a stick is surprising. You have to treat him with respect otherwise you could be in trouble.
"The farm is quite a busy place with people coming in and out all the time, or at least they did. They now know that they have to drive up and park very close to the door if they're going to have a chance of getting in safely."
Mrs Hamilton said she hoped that the pheasant would soon find a mate to distract him from his week-long reign of terror at Wood Farm. "Hopefully he'll find a wife soon and clear off, because it's becoming a flaming nuisance.
"Frankly I'd like to see him in a pie but some of my friends have become quite fond of him. They think it's quite a laugh but they don't have to live with him."
Paul Stancliffe, from the ornithology trust, said: "It's the start of the breeding season so the pheasant sees everything as a threat. He's trying to get everyone and everything off his territory so he can install his harem.
"It's not entirely usual for pheasants to see off animals or chase vehicles. It's not unheard of, but he's perhaps taking things a little to the extreme."
Last year a Shropshire family had a similar experience to Mrs Hamilton.
"Phil the angry pheasant" did not stop at attacks on their vehicles, however, and turned his attentions to a number of members of the family, forcing one of them to carry a badminton racket for self-defence.
I'd make a meal of it . . .