2 peahens just appeared in our backyard...?

[ssmith1]

That is what mine is doing.....she is off the nest just long enough to eat and drink. I will take your advice and put a water bowl near her nest. North Texas does get hot! Thanks again for the information.

 

[gryeyes]

I guess I'm just going to sound like a broken record, but... Did you try to find this guy's owners?? And, in any case, Where Are The Pictures?? And, also, - you are clearly a BYC elder, but welcome to neighborhood devoted to Peas!

Today, drove all the way to the end of Buzzard Gulch Road with the car radio off and the front windows all the way down listening for peacock calls. (Hey, it seemed like a good plan.) Never heard a single one, but the large peacock casually crossing the gravel road right at the "Peacock Crossing" sign seemed to be a good clue. Three big peacocks were wandering around, two of them inside the property gate. Nine more were milling about in a large covered pen or perched on a wide, ladder-style roost made of wooden risers with PVC "rungs.". The milling peacocks had little space in the pen except along the sides of the ladder roost or under it. The roof of that.. I guess it was probably their coop... also covered an adjacent pen of equal size, but with much more open, wing-flapping space. No ladder roosts from one side to the other. That section housed ten or twelve dove kinda birds. Little cooing things. Two of them would be able to fit on my hand, side by side. Now and again, whilst I stood there checking things out, one of the doves would make a noise like someone laughing. Slightly eerie. I had to wait to catch one of them actually making the sound to be sure it was coming from a dove. I may very well be anthropomorphizing the birds, but I think I saw why Kevin may have taken a long jaunt away from that farm. Ummm. I didn't go onto the property to ask if a peacock may be missing from their flock. If that makes me a bad person, so be it. Kevin has asylum here. When I got home, I asked him if he wanted to go back. He said, "chhir tuk" and ate a few more sunflower seeds. On either side of him were a Silver Sebright and a Salmon Favorelle hen, equally involved in enjoying the afternoon BOSS treat with the rest of my flock around us. I believe "chhir tuk" translates to "What other place?"

 

[new 2 pfowl]

"Chhir tuk" may translate to "Thank you for rescuing me from that dump!"