Thoughts on Peacocks

We were able to go the Tracy Aviary in Salt Lake City. The whole Liberty Park sort of reminded me of Paris, by a stretch. I suppose because it is such large park with green grass :)

The Aviary is small. But we were able to see some interesting birds. We barely made it into the park because the children were so fascinated with the geese outside the park (including those that were eating spaghetti. Who feeds geese spaghetti? And why would they eat it???).

We got pretty close to the Peacocks. These birds are funny. When I was younger I always wondered what that loud cry was when I went to the zoo. My mom then pointed the peacocks out to me and I learned where the sound came from. Then while we were visiting London we went to the peacock garden at Warwick Castle. I thought they were so beautiful. Their feathers are so elegant (of course, not the females...) And then when my parents moved to Mt. P they lived next door to a family who raised peacocks. And my high opinions changed. We'd wake up at 6:30 in the morning to sound of dying cats. Later when we'd go out to our car we had to "shoo" the birds off the top of our cars! No kidding, they are even more like cats the better I get to know them! Plus they'd poop on the windows and leave muddy prints on the top of the cars. They poop everywhere, they hiss, they yowl like cats. Wow, quite the resemblance. So, despite their beauty, we secretly wished they would all run away or disappear. Even when the neighbor moved, they didn't leave with him. They hadn't seen the ones nesting on the barn. If my sister Rose wasn't so good at imitating their call and if they weren't so beautiful, I'd probably detest the creatures.

Anyway, here are some more photos.

The first group is of Tyler saving a baby goose. He wandered out of his fenced area and was squawking while his mother was honking and looking for her baby.





Here are the fancy tailed creatures. It's all show. But it still scared Jocelyn.