This peacock was getting a tad territorial, seeing it’s own reflection in the paint work of the cars, he took them to be challengers to his male dominance.
He was willing to take on all comers.
The owner of the car with the shiny alloy wheels, was not impressed about having his precious paint work chipped at by a pointy bird beak. He tried remonstrating with the bird, shooing it away and getting rather stroppy with it, much to the amusement of everyone else in the car park, it would have made a wonderful candid shot; but having made a dynamic risk assessment used my feminine intuition, to deduce that the guy was not going to take kindly to someone taking snapshots of him arguing with a peacock, after all it wasn’t just the peacock that was ‘strutting it’s stuff’ and showing off his fine plumage, I decided I’d best be discrete, in the end the peacock won and the guy drove off in a huff, wheels spinning, I think his feathers were a little ruffled.
Uphilldowndale 
May 31, 2008 at 6:16 am
That’s hilarious!!
May 31, 2008 at 6:09 pm
I guess he got the bird. 🙂
May 31, 2008 at 6:50 pm
That is a fine story,- I wish I had been there myself. It is impressing that you got this pictures, do you always have your camera with you?
June 1, 2008 at 9:32 am
giiid, we were on a day out, the peacock was at a farm that was open to the public; I seem to have the camera with me more and more, but the fact it is a bit heavy and bulky stops me becoming to obsessive about it 🙂
May 13, 2010 at 8:01 pm
I love this post, my son is really scared of peacocks and has been since he was a baby. This one peacock jumped down in front of him and then gave it a full spread of its tail feathers………ever since he has been petrified.
He only has to look at them and he goes mad! lol
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