A friend and I went to breakfast at a local diner this morning. When we left the restaurant, we saw this wild peacock sauntering by.
Wild peacocks are somewhat common here, because there were peacock farms at one time, and many got away. They are about the size of wild turkeys.
This one ran away from us and roosted on a nearby car. Peacocks can be aggressive, but this one was actually reasonably tame and let us get quite near. We saw no peahens nearby, so I'm assuming he's very lonely.
I checked with animal services, but peacocks/peahens are able to fly away, so no one will catch or try to relocate them.
We asked around, and found out that he'd always lived in a nearby mobile home park, but now the mobile home park is being demolished to make way for a new shopping mall.
Such is the price of "progress".
