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« Reply #1305 on: 19:12:34, 21-05-2007 » |
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Wow Milly! Do you have any National Trust/stately homes in your vicinity? Maybe he snuck out to see what life is like in the real world  He obviously approved of the nuts on offer! |
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« Reply #1306 on: 19:19:01, 21-05-2007 » |
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No National Trust or anything. The nearest stately home is miles away. We have a nature reserve nearby but that has the usual stuff on it..you know...foxes, stoats, rabbits, wild orchids, frogs, toads...
We are totally baffled. We rang the police who were similarly baffled but offered no solutions, so we closed the gates and hoped it would stay till the morning when I would ring the RSPB or something. However this morning it had gone, which means that it can easily get over 6-8 ft fences. I've looked in the paper tonight and nobody has reported one missing but it was a beautiful well-fed bird in fabulous condition. It's feathers were iridescent and I have never seen a peacock tail so long and luxuriant. He must have been the King of the Peacocks.
I just hope he's ok. If he comes back I'll entice him into the garage and keep him there until we've contacted someone, but last night we were full of cars and I had a migraine so not much was done. I'd be amazed if he came back though, he's probably miles away by now.
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« Reply #1307 on: 19:43:25, 21-05-2007 » |
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It doesn't have to be a stately home to have peacocks. I think I mentioned on here before that we used to live near a house where they were kept. It was a big house, but definitely not a stately home - it belonged to a gynaecologist.
Does Blackpool still have a zoo? Perhaps it travelled. Amazing thing to have in your garden - beats my heron!
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« Reply #1308 on: 19:49:05, 21-05-2007 » |
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Blackpool does have a zoo but it's a very long way from here. Strangely, my son had taken my grandson to the zoo yesterday afternoon and they'd taken pictures of peacocks there! I was ill so stayed at home. They both say that the peacocks at the zoo were much smaller than this one. Quite a coincidence though. There are a lot of very large properties in this area, but I've never heard of anyone keeping peacocks. They must be the very devil to keep in anyway! You'd need very large grounds with about a 20 ft wall all round. There are lots of foxes around here so I hope it got to safety.  |
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« Reply #1309 on: 14:19:47, 23-05-2007 » |
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I've just been wandering round the garden removing brambles - pity really, I'm sure they're a good food plant for something. It's an absolute riot of disorganised colour, including a quite unasked-for but wonderful bank of very tall foxgloves, all shades from white to deep pink. They've sprung up as if by magic where four large conifers were felled (had to be as they were dying) a couple of years ago.  At this rate it will be Autumn in July. (The photo isn't my foxgloves. I've got a lot more than that.) |
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« Reply #1310 on: 15:23:57, 23-05-2007 » |
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My garden is looking very green with lots of colour around the pond  Our back garden is on a gentle slope. Last weekend I was wandering round my garden, I noticed water running down my little stream feature into my pond, I love the babbling brook sound..... hang on I havent had the pump on so where's the 'stream' coming from, hang on my pond's overflowing and running under the fence onto next door's patio..... I ran upstairs to look out the back window. Next door's lawn was awash! He'd only decided the water in his pond was dirty so he proceeded to pump gallons of it onto his lawn while in the house watching telly...... his lawn flooded and water was flowing into the back end of our garden and somehow getting into the top end of our stream feature, water then flowed into our pond, overflowed it, ran onto our patio under the fence and back onto the neighbour's patio  Hope his fish aren't infected  |
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« Reply #1311 on: 16:12:13, 23-05-2007 » |
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When I lived in Peterborough there was a feral peacock that wandered around the area where I lived - no-one seemed to know where it had come from. I only actually saw it once or twice, but I heard it quite frequently. It was nicknamed Percy by the locals.
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« Reply #1312 on: 16:17:15, 23-05-2007 » |
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'percy the ferral peacock'.
sounds like a cracking read for under 5's.
*blimey! i posted in the happy room!*
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« Reply #1313 on: 17:01:44, 23-05-2007 » |
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I'm not surprised your garden is green, John! I wish I had a pond, but I think the garden's a bit too shady. I've got a little one, in a big terra-cotta dish...well, it's got water-plants and water, so it's a pond. I googled for escaping peacocks, and there are quite a few hits, including a recent one in Bolton - I know Bolton's miles from you, Milly, but it's all oop north, innit? |
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« Reply #1314 on: 17:23:13, 23-05-2007 » |
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Mary,
My gardens must have a tardis function hidden in a saxifraga or somewhere.
In the front garden, the irises have been and gone already. The allium is a huge full sphere, and the escalonia started flowering ages ago.
In the back garden, my ajugas have only just decided to shrink into the background, my gladioli are only just poking their leaves out of the ground, and it was only 2 weeks ago that the last of my tulips lost its flowers.
Mind you, there is a pocket of summer on the patio, where an acanthus molis has a flower!
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« Reply #1315 on: 18:31:22, 23-05-2007 » |
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it was only 2 weeks ago that the last of my tulips lost its flowers.
Good heavens, Tommo - I can't even remember my tulips. |
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« Reply #1316 on: 18:33:19, 23-05-2007 » |
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My tulips are still standing and they have seeds on the end. I don't know how people call that end with seeds.
Or what ever is that top part for I don't know.
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« Reply #1317 on: 19:37:41, 23-05-2007 » |
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dunno if this is right to put this here, but martle reached 1000 posts yesterday! [ed. or maybe it was today. sorry  ] congrats o and also i didn't have to use london bridge today (very good thing) (selfish, *slap*) |
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« Reply #1318 on: 20:08:49, 23-05-2007 » |
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Cor blimey! CONGRATS MARTLE!!! Here, have one of these .... |
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« Reply #1319 on: 20:14:03, 23-05-2007 » |
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Pretty damn close to a milestone yourself Mort !
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