I've been trying to get a photo of the peacock, now known as Raja, but he remains elusive! This picture is of a peacock just like him although Raja's tail is not quite that long. It has grown a good deal since he arrived in full molt, and I think it should be this long in a month or so.
He seemed more trusting for awhile and was coming up with the chickens when I went out to throw special treats, but something has frightened him back to his old elusive/reclusive ways.
He's great fun to watch though. About four-thirty in the afternoon, he strolls casually up to the back and stands carefully looking about. When he feels unobserved, and oblivious to us watching from the window, he lifts his wings and in a graceful sort of fly/hop lands on the crest of the little house in back. He spends about half an hour pacing about the roof craning his neck up and eying the pine trees that are close, but not close enough... Sometimes he settles down on the ridge of the roof, tucks his head under his wing, and sleeps the night away but sometimes he does another fly/hop up to our roof where he beds down at the highest point he can find.
I think he likes it here because it's as close to wild as he can be and still have peacock food and fresh water provided for him. E. has also found him perched in an old stall, out of the wind on a blustery day. He just doesn't trust it for the night..well, I have heard coyotes lately.
So much for resolutions..
I got up early yesterday intending to post. I resolved to post every day, right? Right....
Our Cable One service was out.
Remembering that my most important resolution was to remain positive, I decided to write overdue snail-mail-letters.
Firstly, I thought I'd write to my Uncle, my Mom's older brother who sent us a lovely Figi parcel of smoked turkey and ham. An overdue thank-you to a lovely man. Remembering that my Mom had mentioned he was reminiscing about the pet pig he'd had as a boy, I thought of a picture of him with that pig. I started looking...
I'm still looking.... I think he'd be very pleased to see that photo.. I know it's there somewhere in the boxes and envelopes and zip-lock sorta-sorted packages. It's there and I will find it.....gotta organize those pictures!
