There is a Peacock in our garden!

m1kjm

Are you in Norwich?

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/have-you-lost-a-peacock-in-norwich-1-5064599

elsien

Grandparent used to have them turn up in her garden from a house down the lane. They generally took themselves back again in due course.

Deep_In_Debt

Doody wrote: »

This happened to relatives in West Sussex. They phoned the local police who were aware of a peacock keeper in the area. Peacock keeper was contacted, and turned up with raisins. Peacocks like raisins, and it was lured away to its proper home.

Hopefully, someone somewhere will know of places where peacocks live. They are noisy and large, you can't be discrete about having peacocks around.

Interestingly my mother had a peacock in her garden a few years back and she is in West Sussex too so could be the same keeper. Similar thing with the keeper turning up with raisins.

POPPYOSCAR

He has moved on now.

I could hear him calling in the night but he was not close.

Hopefully, he is on his way back home.

POPPYOSCAR

m1kjm wrote: »

Are you in Norwich?

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/have-you-lost-a-peacock-in-norwich-1-5064599

No not in Niorwich.

That one looks like a Peahen.

The one in our garden was very large with the beautiful coloured tail feathers.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

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I have been leaving water out for him perhaps that is why he is still here?

Wondering if they have any predators? Would a fox attack him?

Only if the fox suffered from extreme depression and wished to commit suicide.

Or you have a tiger trotting around in the bushes as well, having escaped from the same place.


You don't live near a zoo, do you?

building_with_lego

bouicca21 wrote: »

I'd be delighted to find a peacock in my garden. Though I suspect the local foxes might be too.

Not if you like your garden you wouldn't. They are large, hungry, and leave the most disgusting smelling piles around the place, sticky and dark. (My childhood neighbours kept a pair in a cage, then released them. At one point there were 42 of varying ages roaming freely :eek:)

Gloomendoom

martinthebandit wrote: »

As they are a non native species then, if it is roaming free, you should report it to Natural England who should come and catch it (or shoot it) and look to prosecute the owner

Huh? There are peacocks wandering free in our village and at least the next two villages to us, and probably further afield too.

I thought it was normal.

snozberry

We often had one visiting our garden when I was little. He lived at the farm down the road and liked to go for a wander around the estate. He was completely harmless and everyone knew him. His early morning wake up calls didn't go down too well though ...

martinthebandit

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Huh? There are peacocks wandering free in our village and at least the next two villages to us, and probably further afield too.

I thought it was normal.

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