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We hung out at Longfeather Lane yesterday. Hubby helped build the new quail pen while I hung out with the birds.
First up is the gorgeous Stan Lee!
Next up is the extremely handsome Poppa P aka Indie.
Purples are so beautiful. His colors are stunning IRL.
A few of the brooding girls too
I hung out most of the time with Jocelyn but forgot to take pics of her. She is a very old turkey. We are friends. She knows my voice as I usually feed her dandelions which she loves. I only found one today for her but I fed her some other treats.
Congratulations to Wendy for passing her intake exam (mycoplasma test pending) and being the first of my birds to ever bite the vet for daring to touch her. This child is full on ready to hold her own in a fight. Upon arrival home, she got her last parasite med, and a pretty aqua bracelet to declare her a bird from Longfeather Lane.
I don’t remember if I introduced her last week, but Wendy came to me the same way as Tootles did: randomly by gift of the universe, after I said I wished Tootles had been a hen. I then received a phone call requesting my services to capture a peahen that was trespassing in someone’s yard that didn’t want her there.
I trucked out with my neighbors in case we needed extra hands but actually I just ended up looking super cool because we walked out to where Wendy was and I explained what I was going to do like some kind of professional peafowl catcher, like this happens all the time, and then I immediately caught her within 2 minutes of seeing her. Incredibly lucky first grab. Like it looked so professional they asked what they owed for removal. Ma'am this is a $200 bird, and you’re letting me take her for free.
Editing my reblog to add: I checked the notes and want to just say (again) there are no known albino peafowl. This is labeled correctly! It is a leucistic (white) Indian blue peacock.
shoutout to those random peacocks you find in places that are probably unsuitable for a peacock to inhabit in the first place
what the fuck kinds of lives are you guys leading. i’ve never seen a peacock in my life. where are u guys finding them.
Random neighborhoods in Florida
a gas station in morocco
middle of a busy road in england
middle of the woods in a rural town in Mississippi
Irish farms??
Roof of a house in a tiny English village
Screaming their heads off in abandoned fuel stations in the back-blocks of the Rangitikei
with a group of pheasants in the woods in maryland
Strutting outside the window of an elementary school library in Texas.
Walking down the street of a California suburb on a hot summer afternoon like he owns the place
At a golf club in Long Island
At a strawberry festival in SoCal
Outside a café in Ayia Napa
Walking thru my neighborhood in nebraska
watching over fish near a pond in switzerland
walking around the zoo parking lot
on a car roof pulled over on the interstate on the way to Myrtle Beach
Friend’s neighbor’s yard in suburban Maryland
Stealing the dog food off our back porch in rural Oregon.
There’s a big house on a major road across from a college in Salt Lake. They must own peacocks because I somewhat regularly see them on the sidewalk in front of that property.
A cattle farm in rural Australia.
In a buddy’s back yard fighting with a neighborhood cat in Arizona in the middle of fucking summer.
Walking through Lisbon Castle like a tourist.
Chastising its cat friend while strolling along a reforestation trail in northern Ontario, Canada.
Pub garden in England
At the Los Angeles Zoo. He doesn’t belong to the zoo, he just walks around displaying his plumage and posing for pictures. Occasionally chases small children with snacks.
chasing childhood me in Stanley Park in Vancouver. probably because I had snacks.
A hotel lobby in central Mongolia
The Glendale, Arizona library
Chasing dudes down a country highway in Northwest Washington.
At a campsite in South Carolina
Buddhist temple in West Virginia
My backyard in michigan
My cow field s i t t i n g on a back of one chilling, North Carolina
standing right in the middle of the sidewalk in san diego, like he was waiting for me
a viking village in western norway
Casually strolling through an open-air Celtic Festival just outside of Las Vegas.
They wander around inner city Cincinnati. They escape the zoo, and the keepers have to go with nets and grab them on occasion.
The zoo has officially stopped supporting the population because there are too DAMN MANY of them. They reduced the flock from 40 to 6 in 2008. I think they have more now.
They just LEAVE.
Roosting in our barn in Ohio. Roosting in our trees, roosting in our pool shed, just hanging out on our back porch. Look we just had peafoul everywhere for something like four years, and we’ve no idea why.
A breeding pair or two must’ve made it across the river from Cincinnati because I’ve seen a few wandering around northern Kentucky
Grass farm in Texas
suburban roof in small-town Saskatchewan
Southwestern college back in Chula Vista when I was attending an child development conference. Went outside for some fresh air and there was a couple peacocks chilling in the middle of the quad at 6pm. Guess they had a conference too. 🤷🏾♂️
cow farm in rural southwest virginia. it’s a convenient street to cut through, but they used to charge at cars that went through too slowly so you kinda had to watch yourself–it was a delicate balance between being wary of not wanting to accidentally hit them as you went over a blind hill, and not wanting to be going slow enough to suddenly attract them to risk that happening anyway.
Gibsonton, Florida. aka Gibtown. aka the place where circus performers have, traditionally, lived when not touring.
(they seemed to belong to this REALLY LARGE FANCY HOUSE that was settled between two trailer parks)
Also the phoenix zoo.
Scratching the shit out of a parked maserati outside of the only coffee shop around with a spot to tie a horse up in my home town in a rural-styled former island off the side of Los Angeles.
Some suburb in Seattle.
Bumming treats off of dignitaries at the UN.
The botanical garden adjacent to the UN.
in a tiny, tiny, tiny town outside of Del Rio Texas, screaming their heads off from the top of my parents’ roof at 5am on any given day
and they do not sound as pretty as they look
Neighborhood in Surrey, BC. Pecking at cars and shitting on everything.
At a Girl Scout camp in GA. Waking us up at the crack of dawn with it’s death-bird screeching.
Middle of the woods in Central Florida. There were some wild boar nearby, I thought it was one of them and I stopped the car so that I wouldn’t accidentally hit one, but out strutted a peacock instead!
University cafeteria 2,150 m above sea level.
Cornfield in Indiana
Windsor castle in England
Atlanta Zoo Parking Lot
Industrial/commercially zoned area of San Diego walking down the sidewalk next to a busy construction site.
waltzing down random residential streets in the middle of pittsburgh, acting like they own the damn place
screaming in an old industrial neighborhood in Warsaw, Poland
Squabbling with a flock of turkeys on my front lawn last month.
Hanging out on a tennis court in a little town in central Scotland.
A henhouse in a cotton field in a north Louisiana town with thirty-six inhabitants and two churches.
shoutout to those random peacocks you find in places that are probably unsuitable for a peacock to inhabit in the first place
what the fuck kinds of lives are you guys leading. i’ve never seen a peacock in my life. where are u guys finding them.
Random neighborhoods in Florida
a gas station in morocco
middle of a busy road in england
middle of the woods in a rural town in Mississippi
Irish farms??
Roof of a house in a tiny English village
Screaming their heads off in abandoned fuel stations in the back-blocks of the Rangitikei
with a group of pheasants in the woods in maryland
Strutting outside the window of an elementary school library in Texas.
Walking down the street of a California suburb on a hot summer afternoon like he owns the place
At a golf club in Long Island
At a strawberry festival in SoCal
Outside a café in Ayia Napa
Walking thru my neighborhood in nebraska
watching over fish near a pond in switzerland
Roaming free in the New Orleans zoo. Not part of an exhibit or anything. Just strutting around being peacocks.
Roaming around the side of the road in the rural part of indio
Side of a quiet road on the Central Coast, NSW, Australia
Chasing random cabbies on the road in Singapore
Chilling by a pond in Pennsylvania
Chilling by your hot tub in Northern Illinois
Displaying for my car as I learn to drive on the dirt roads in pennsylvania.
Bossing around the goats in a petting zoo in Victoria, B.C., Canada.
Wherever the hell they feel like going on my step-gramma’s farm in northern Saskatchewan.
constantly crossing the road in front of my car near the Michigan-Indiana border
Wandering around the local zoo (in Michigan). No specific exhibit, they just wander around and all the workers are resigned to the situation.
Driving through Comstock, MI I saw a few hanging with some wild turkeys.
Can confirm. Random neighborhoods in Florida. Particularly a neighborhood area about 10 minutes from me. Peacocks and peahens everywhere. Not sure if the speed bumps in that neighborhood are not entirely for the local school.
My very dangerous neighborhood in Norfolk, VA had drive-bys and peacocks. Walking to K-Mart for groceries, say hullo to the birds.
several outside the cafeteria of a Texas private school
On the rooftops in my old hood in southwest Atlanta
On the railroad tracks near my grandma’s house in a small Ohio village.
