the sleppys

The peafowl have been roosting in our neighbor’s yard under their tree. It’s a quiet yard that is full of grass, no children, and two small dogs that hardly ever go outside. So it makes sense the the birds chose their yard.

These birds have also come into our backyard because it’s pleasantly shaded. I’m sure that they eat the Royal Poinciana pods or the bugs that are around that part of the yard. It’s a dark corner where we used to have our compost pile (now we have a compost bin).

Yesterday, we found them in our patio!

We had our young garden plants in the patio to protect them from the summer sun but have recently moved them to the fence on the side yard. We still have a some sprouts that were planted a few weeks ago. We found the birds pecking at the young tomatoes! This made Dad pretty angry, so we tried shooing them out. But the birds are such bird-brains that it took the peacock a few minutes to find his way out. We had trouble with the peahen who was panicking and trying to peck her way through the patio screen. She got stuck in the corner of the patio on the left side of the white chair. She wanted to go to the door but couldn’t get past the aloe plants and the small crate that were sitting in her way.

Dad had Isis on a leash to give peahen a reason to leave. But she still was stuck. I got out of the house through the bathroom door and herded her away from the corner and toward the doorway. She finally got out and joined her companion in the yard. Dad took Isis out on a longer leash to get the birds back into “their” yard. We later found that they had pecked at the tiny tomato that was growing from one plant. I can see why the people down the road view them as pests.

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