There's a PEACOCK in my garden!!

[fuckinghellapeacock]

DD went out at 2pm yesterday and screamed, I thought she was messing around but nope, there it was! It was actually a peahen :)
And it is still here, showing off to my cockerels and roosting in a tree for the second night!
At what point does it stop being 'that peahen' and start being 'my peahen'?

Don't worry, I am making attempts to locate an owner....... just not trying too hard....

we have a wild peacock called Jeremy who has wandered out street for years. he often visits our garden and eats our vegetable patch

Just seen this - we also have free roaming peacocks in our village. I don’t know their names but they are quite cocky (aptly enough).

You could skip the mandarin duck eggs and go straight to the big ticket OP

Haha this is my all time favourite thread - amazing how many free ranging peacocks there are!
I fed her some grapes, she is very happy, I can tell. Still no owner in site and someone else has stuck a notice on facebook with my phone number for the owner to get hold of me...

This is my favourite thread of recent times. And I want a peacock.

We have a peacock and a peahen that turn up every year. They strutt up and down the road and generally cause a nuisance. The peacock is massive
We often have pheasants and woodpeckers too, I'm not in the country either

So many peacocks! Love the albino one

I love this thread!

This thread is great. Why can't all the threads on Mumsnet be like this!? I've never had an exotic bird in my garden but once had a giant exotic butterfly, escaped from a nearby butterfly house type place.

@tutorwho, not Suffolk. Yorkshire.

@TreacherousPissFlap I was reading about a woman who hatched one in an incubator last year - WILD! It's so tempting.....

We have a peacock around these parts too.
Comes around every few days and goes away, them comes back again, almost certain it has a home

And they are huge also ! And so nosy !

So envious!
Would be interest if she hooked up with one (or more) of your cockerels...

Best thread -thanks OP!

A viscous emu. The mind boggles.

Can I add a pic, people I do some work for have peacocks.

There's a house about down the road from us who have a whole flock of them and they make a right racket! Fortunately they mainly stay in their own garden but they do wander into ours sometimes. I'm not keen to be honest as we feed the wild birds and the peacocks seem to scare them off. We get pheasants as well but the garden birds don't seem to mind them as much. In fact my garden is like a bloody wildlife sanctuary at present with numerous wild birds, pheasants, peacocks, next doors chickens, loads of rabbits and at least 2 hedgehogs now. My coronavirus driven attempts to grow vegetables have been an abject failure. Can't think why.

I always kinda fancied a peacock but we have pheasants, the two males strut round like they own the place, they will come right up to the house but the females are quite shy
They are lovely but destructive and our veg patch & flower beds have pheasant defences

somanysocks thank you ! That is absolutely stunning - I didn’t know there was such a thing as a white peacock. Beautiful !

Is anyone else missing the grey gables / the bull peacock sound effects in the archers as a result of this thread ? I am. Never thought I’d say that !

Oh my fucking god they can fly (no idea why I thought they couldn't). I would literally shite myself if one of them flew anywhere near me even though I love birds, but the pure size of those things flailing about in the sky is quite terrifying. It's like a flying panic.

Your Brahma looks proper gallus OP. Right full of himself. 😆

A viscous emu. The mind boggles.

Oh they can be viscous bastards @MikeUniformMike. My sister had a Saturday job when she was 15 in the local zoo and one of her jobs was to feed the emus - one of them scared her so much by hissing at her that she ran the wrong way and into the shelter where it promptly shut the door on her and parked itself in front of it. This was long before mobile phones (almost 40 years ago) and she was in there for nearly 4 hours. I nearly wet myself laughing when she was telling us that night and she didn't speak to me for two days. 😂

I am finding this thread strangely relaxing and uplifting!

Talking of vicious birds, I once got cornered in a car park in Bakewell by a gaggle of ninja geese. It was terrifying! Apparently they were known for it

A few weeks ago out on my bike for an early evening ride, there was a Peacock in the middle of the other side of the road. Bold as brass and pretty bloody magnificent (if a bit dim, obviously).

Country road but fairly busy for traffic at that time of the evening. God only knows where he comes from but there are some farm buildings so perhaps he's a guard peacock! I wish I'd taken some pics now, @fuckinghellapeacock