Tuesday evening, I sat down to get a little work done. I was updating my Linux computer system and hoping to work on a few George comic strip ideas.
It’s warming up here in Northeast Ohio, so I opened up a window.
About three to four minutes after I opened the window, I heard a large ruffling sound. I looked up from the keyboard. Just out the window, I saw a large peacock! Yes! A life-size, NBC, full-color peacock!
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I have no idea how it got here. I shot some video and snapped a few pictures. I was hoping for its tail to fan open, but that never happened.
I realize I live way out in the sticks, but in all the years I’ve been out in this neck of the woods, I’ve NEVER seen anything like this before.
Sure, we see our share of woodpeckers, hawks, ducks, geese, possum, racoons, beaver…you name it. But a peacock?
Ironically, just today, I was telling a friend that nothing new and exciting has happened. It’s been the same old, same old.
I contacted the the Ohio Ornithological Society and they wrote back saying, “Thanks for the photos, Mark. Peacocks escape sometimes from farms or zoos or private collections, but they’re not found in the “wild” of Ohio–not that there’s much wild in Ohio these days! Interesting critter to have wandering the neighborhood. Likely someone is missing it”
So, there you have. An escaped peacock.
There’s a comic strip idea in there somewhere.
Looks like my yard, but I just have Canadian Geese with baby geese now,
Feed it looks like a good pet, at least you would have the most unusual pet in the hood, It may be used to a human tossing it some corn.
Beautiful Bird.
Peacocks do fly actually. But this fellow could not be too far from home !
Hopefully he finds his way back to safety.
He sorta wandered off. Other neighbors reported seeing him on the other side of the lake. I was not aware that they can fly. I heard a very loud ruffling noise outside the window. Perhaps he was landing?