Seen today, at lunchtime in a local village…
We're about to find out….
She sat on the car to get to the garden…
Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 40D and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. Pictures taken with the permission of the householder. The peahen is a regular visitor.
Vulpes vulpes
8 May 2010Oddly, I've always wondered that! 😉
debplatt
8 May 2010What fun photos!
RobinL
8 May 2010Fantastic sequence. Hard to believe a bird that big can simple lift off like that!
SittingFox
8 May 2010Yes Vulpes, me too 😉
However, on another level, I don't trust peacocks because, as I've mentioned before, once upon a time, a peacock mugged me for a blueberry muffin :insane: Such strange birds. Beautiful, but strange!
Words
8 May 2010Adele, very fortunately I didn't have any blueberry muffins about my person. A lucky escape!
Words
8 May 2010Robin, I know. It barely seems possible, though it was really more of a hop to the wall.
Words
8 May 2010Vuples, yes it's one of those questions that just won't go away. :whistle:
Words
8 May 2010Deb, thanks!
SittingFox
8 May 2010That is fortunate :whistle: but another peacock memory for me is their calls in the canopy while I was looking for tigers in India. Since such big cats are mainly located by the alarm calls of their prey, I'd be on the lookout if you should see the peahen suddenly panic 😉 :cat:
Words
8 May 2010I'll bear that in mind. We get regular reports of the Preston Park Panther :whistle:
SittingFox
8 May 2010😆
gdare
8 May 2010I`ve heard a story about peacock attacking parked car for hours. Was that you who told me that? I think it was someone from Opera Community. A car was reflecting its own image and poor bird thought it was another male trespassing its territory :doh:
cakkleberrylane
8 May 2010Wonderful set of pictures! These birds are so beautiful, noisy though. I have a friend who has about 160 wild peacocks behind her house, she said the noise is deafening at times.
Words
9 May 2010Erwin, thanks!
Words
9 May 2010Lois, 160 would certainly make a racket! This one was very quiet though.
Words
9 May 2010Darko, that may have been Adele. She seems to bring out the worst in peacocks 😉
SittingFox
9 May 2010Originally posted by Words:
It's because I like big cats. They have labelled me as a collaborator with The Enemy :knight:
(Actually, the car story didn't come from me, but I've read of many accounts of pheasants doing that, and I've seen a tiny little goldcrest fighting its reflection on my parents' car!)
mountainlion_wales
9 May 2010hehe!! that one of her looks like she's doing stretching exercises! :p
Words
9 May 2010Adele, that must be it!
Words
9 May 2010Jenny, LOL, that's spot on. She does!
Wulpen
19 Oct 2012Wonderful, a great shot