I’d been told that someone in an adjacent neighborhood raised them. It appears they’ve broken out - perhaps frightened by the thunderboomers that came through the area earlier today? A couple of them flew up onto the neighbor’s roof, then flew down again. Unfortunately, none of them have the ornate tail feathers. But it was still an impressive sight!
Last seen walking up the road. No wait - I see them outside the window again! Snacking in my yard. Sure wish I had a camera.
I was once running through an busy intersection chasing clowns.
Well I called them “clowns” but they were actually some pheasant-like birds with naked, white faces, blue cheeks and flaming red heads. There had been a thunder storm so they decided to congregate at some rural (but BUSY) crossroads.
On first pass I yeled “AAAH! Mini-clowns!” Then I honked to scare them out of the intersection. They ran to the ditch, but then ran back out onto the street. So I had to pull over and try to chase them off the road. Eventually, I left them hanging out on the shoulder of the road.
Aren’t they loud as hell? I think they sound like a large cat. It’s rather strange to hear them call out at night. Across the creak behind my property, there are a few in a pasture full of cows. They are nosey birds that will chase off hawks and anything else they do not like.
My kids love em though…
There used to be a farm in the middle of nowhere near where I live, that had peacocks as their main livestock. They used to get in the road all the time.
They sound kinda like this: “Kaay-YOW, kaay-YOW, kaay-YOW!”, except at about 120 decibels. After a couple of days of it, you start planning peacock menus.
Yup, peacocks are noisy, loud, stupid and kind of mean. We had one for a couple of years, just showed up one day, and our home was thirty miles from the nearest town, so I don’t get that at all. Anyway, I still have dreams where I hear that bird calling, like a lost child crying. Enjoy them while you gots 'em though, a touch of the exotic!
Those would be Guineas. I used to have a flock of them to control ticks in my yard when I lived in the country. Seventeen of them.
While I was looking for a good picture of a Guinea, I chanced upon the lovely pea-guinea. Just think-- the piercing scream of the peafowl combined with the grating kikikikikikiki ker-KREET of the guinea.:eek:
FairyChatMom, I hope that your peafowl visitors aren’t too loud, so that you can continue to enjoy them. They’re pure class until they open their beaks. To me, they sound like a cross between a seriously distressed baby and a cat in heat, only much, much louder.
The noise isn’t the biggest problem. We have large porches and lots of windows. For about 3 years we had a peacock which liked to see himself reflected in the windows. He also did what most birds do only in the case of peacocks it is more like what cows do. When he died, I told my wife we would not be getting another peacock.
Young peacocks do not have tail feathers until about their third year. They also lose them, but this time of the year they should be grown back out.
A neighbor across the street from the house I lived in when I was in grade school had peacocks. And they hardly ever shut up. From my bedroom at the front of the house it sounded just like someone crying out “Help me, help me, help me”. Sort of unnerving to a kid.
Well, I didn’t hear them at all through the night, and I didn’t see them as I came into work this morning, although I did leave the house at 5:30 - do they do morinings??
I know my dog wanted a piece of them, but I wouldn’t let her out - when there’s something she wants, she manages to escape the yard too easily.
I’m still disappointed I didn’t have a camera. Reason #472 to get a digital cam.
