Red Buff Spalding FOUNDER FLOCK -digresses into peafowl in general

[deerman]

There you go ..nice looking purple blackshoulder spalding.

 

[Resolution]

Indescribable.

Subadult phase is more interesting to me-see nature at work- what it's working with before the masterpiece of full maturity- at that eight year old phase.
I'm searching for individual masterpieces of select breeding. % doesn't have significance- I'm not even certain what is meant by only 50%?
He's perfection embodied- the dusty shades- of sand and desert- so many sumptuous hues I've only seen looking down at the earth from the sky-when your plane hits turbulence and you're looking down at the rockscape below- confidant in the powers of reasoning possessed by the pilot- but wondering what that ground might look like up real close if he's up there screwing around.

It's not just a colour- it's an expression of the pallet of earth. immediately reminded me of my great grandfathers' butterfly collection- all the morpho butterflies- in their glass cases-impossibly luminescent violet blue and yet abutting on the most delicate fragile parchment dust -one side in smoldering in the rarest pigments of life the other side the afterthought of was.

and then looking deeper-at the train and some of the hints of colour on secondary coverts- the base of its exquisite neck- and with the images of a black shouldered bronze peacock I saw on this forum earlier today-still seared on the brain- it brought to mind all the ammonites framed in the study- all these rare mineral pigments come back to life. All those impossible fossils of ice rainbows.

I wonder what his mother and sisters look like and what he looked like as a chick. Would like to study his feathers under a microscope.

Please post the first photo of this bird again? It's gone missing and it was the best one. He looked like he was emerging from sandstone. Look at the ghostly remiges of his tertial feathers. Its if he's got aigrettes. I wonder what he'd look like after a few seasons of stealing food from the Chilean flamingo colony. Look at the scales on his back. I'd like to jump start his uropygiols- see what glow could be magnified and accentuated with more viscous and enduring diester waxes. They encase a bird until the elements wear that protective covering away, leaving the surface of plumage to bleach in the sun-to abrade at the edges.


What a masterpiece you've got there. Please let me know if you produce chicks from him or ever want to part with him.