Nearly three years ago, we went and visited some peacocks that were in our community. Now these birds are not just in a zoo or aviary or hothouse, no no no – these birds live in “the wild!” They wander around the neighbourhood injecting a wild splash of color.

Today we decided to see how they were doing and headed back to the neighbourhood. We had learned about them from a newspaper article focusing on how unhappy some of the people were that these large birds were making a mess, being too loud, and generally being disruptive.

While there, we chatted with a couple of people and they talked about how the article made the community rally around the birds. Now it’s become a family thing – people bring them food, and generally look out for them. I think it’s a wonderful story. The birds are colorful, friendly and VERY big.

One of the homeowners brought out his young son and some bread and proceeded to feed them. The peacocks hopped off the fences, off the porches and came over for the handout. They allowed us to be within a couple inches of them. It was a lot of fun!

Here’s a brief compilation of a couple of movies we took.