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Last june a peacock arrived on our lane is oswaldwistle,it has now found its home on a outbuildings roof,many of the people who live here feed it and say how nice it is to see it now its grown all its feathers back,the downside is its cry or shout it does at 5am in the morning and answers to any high pitch noises,myself i dont hear a thing in the morning but i do during the day which i dont mind at all like most people here,but round the corner is a little estate for the eldely and there not happy at all infact theres a pertition going round to get shut of it,just wondering what what the people on here would do if they had a screaming peacock on there street ,keep it? or shoot it?

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beautiful bird-SHOOT IT.

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Shoot it.................

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shall we form a firing squad or what neil?

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i want one of the tail feathers please they look pretty :D

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I don't think that it is fair to shoot an animal for doing what comes naturally to it. For heavens sake there is little enough beauty in this benighted borough. Anywhere else the bird would be seen as an asset.

If anything should be shot, I think it should be the whinging curmudgeonly pensioners.

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I am sure i have seen peacocks at Ossy mills.

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What shall we set the age limit to Bob. I think it was 30 in Logan's Run. That sounds a little low. Maybe 70 would be better. Just think how much money that would save the country.

Peacocks are quite noisy. You will find they also like eating flowers. They had a problem with them a couple of years back where my parents live. They were eating the flowers in peoples gargens and making a real mess.

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They definately had some at the Mills but not seen them in a while;maybe that's why! They would probably take it off your hands anyway.

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i'll go with the latter a-b shoot the pensioners as well!

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Sounds a bit too easy, they don't move fast enough for it to be good sport.

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you would be amazed at how fast a pensioner can move after you apply a bit of butter to the soles of their slippers :D

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really i love pensioners,i'm nearly their myself. in the meantime though SHOOT EM! like the butter idea.

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sell it and make a profit

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000000hhhhhhhhh chase me ,,iam a young pensioner( 60,s) with a sense of humour ...but seriously you realy couldent hurt the peacock,,,,could you ????????????????/

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if we did butter up a pensioners slippers and dropped them would they land butter side up or down :D


glad to see grannyclarets humour is still intact and knows we dont realy mean it


best to check your slippers though just incase lol ;)

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please dont kill that beautiful bird, do you not know a zoo that would take it or contact the rspca they will willingly help you, mabe even relocate it for you .

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i have a bird sanctuary if anyone wants to bring it to me

just knock on my door and ask where the O.V.E.N sanctuary is and i will take the bird to it

it even has its own interior light and window with a view :D

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zoo's are struggling to make ends meet with dwindling customers,they will probably feed it to the lions mez!

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lol..............

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Spray it's feathers an unappealing shade of beige. This is very hard for a peacock to contend with as beige isn't 'in' this season, and it would then have nothing to crow about!.


Do peacocks crow?


Just hope it doesn't find a mate, or thats when the fun will really start. :)

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well it is spring ,and all the bee,s are a buzzing etc,,,,

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I did not know that peacocks mated with bees.
Thats why I like AccyWeb - I learn something new every day.

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Well l am suprised at you.


With the late night Spanish tv you watch l'd have thought you'd have been well aware of the 'honey shot!'

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Peacocks have a very distinctive call Garinda,ask me nicely next time we meet and will do a passable impression for you;though not at the game against Aldershot next tuesday!! In the meantime it's probably worth giving the Rockwater Bird sanctuary at Cliviger a ring;they might re-home it and keep it safe from gun toting ruffians!;)

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There are only birds in the educational programming you refer to (that will deserve a smart answer)

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maybe if you crossed a peacock with a bee ,you would get a beecock ...or a peabee...i think i will stop digging now,,,,lol

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Flick channels then, you wil be able to see more than just birds, it will all of course be in Spanish, but l'm sure you'l get the jist. :)

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about to get my fishing license and could do with tying some more flys.SHOOT IT....

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Try the wildboar park nr chipping tel: 01995 61554. see if they will take it , poor thing , you got a recipe for it staggers?

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or the takeaway on church st,they make all kinds of kebabs and things.

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mez i will have a do at cooking anything that has some meat on it,we wasnt put on this planet to eat grass! they put animals on it to do that.can you imagine...peacock done in a casserole dish with some swede and carrots a bit of parsley,cooked in half inch of water very slowly,when the dish is nearly dry pour over a nice full bodied red wine and cook for another hour or two so the bird soaks up some of that nice wine and serve with another bottle of red...beautifull......yes A-B we could do with a few more birds like that to brighten this borough up of ours.

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As pragmatic and caring as ever;a true nature lover in every sense of the word.Would Sir like chips or roast with his peacock???;)

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there is not another person that does as much for the wild animals as me?If i saw a dead pheasant,hare,rabbitt,duck,goose,deer or ought else dead in the road i would stop and pick it up ..........................then cook it....................if you ask me about any wildlife of the british isles i would be able to tell you where to go and see it.because i like eating the stuff does not say i dont care about it,last wednesday was sat there watching two pairs of buzzards gliding on the thermals what a sight,then saw two hares boxing,phesants mating i could go on....and.on

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dont like them cant get proper spuds to cook them any more!

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I seem to recall a recipe for Peacock curry....after all, it is a native of South East Asia; the only problem is, if I remember, is that the recipe calls for the feet & brains to be chucked in to the pan as well. Still, that would make it Sweet & Sour, Soft & Chewy.

Where did you say this peacock was again? I would'nt mind a little culinary experiment....


Chopped peacock baked in green peppers with coconut, lemon grass and chilli sauce sounds interesting.

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Hope you spotted the smillie there Staggers! Trust Tea to get in on this one;I can't imagine there would be much meat on a peacock anyway;bit like a duck I suspect.Now if you had it's mate to hand you may have more chance of a better,more substantial dish.

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and where have you been lyndsay for the last half hour? and how do you know its got a mate ?...........................OH I KNOW WHY!....YOU HAVE BEEN UP THERE AND SHOT THE BL...Y PEACOCK HAVENT YOU!!....and picked up some red wine on the way home all for a free meal....LOL

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had wild duck on easter sunday thought to myself thats a bit big for one and chopped it in half,had it behind the bar while everyone was drooling on the other side,so i give the other half to a pensioner.Wish i had nt have done that because the only thing that should be eaten with duck is the other half.

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That is correct Willow there are two of them, or were two of them, think their home is/was Rose Cottage. Shoot them...................you don't all mean that.......................do you?

Most enjoyable driving up to the golf course early at weekend, turning on to cross edge to be confronted by a peacock in the of middle of the road, shall I run it over, cause if it don't move soon i'm going to miss my Tee Time. :)

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Bet the car owners aren't too happy with them though, seen one many a time stood on the roof of a car, imagine the damage claws like they have can do to a car roof!

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Seen it sat on the dark blue Volvo that parks across from the pub, also seen it on cars parked outside the pub, usually when I am going to work about 06:15

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I always wondered who it belonged too, I always thought it was the cottage on the opposite corner (on right going down towards the bends just after the junction) as there is some kind of aviary in his garden.

If they are he's birds fron "Rose cottage" he wont be bothered about the damage then will he, we are on the same guy aren't we? he has a scrap business in Accy

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Chav......you don't want a peacock feather, they are supposed to bring very bad luck.

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the bloke who did own the scap metal firm i know very well,he has moved and his son now owns the house,and i know dave(the ex owner) hated them, too noisy he told my dad who he plays golf with at green howarth and that they drive him mad so i know he didnt look after them.this peacock when it first arrived looked ill and battered with no feathers but now after my naighbours tlc for the past 10 months it looks superb strutting its stuff down the lane,me myself it can stay forever,ok it does make a racket but it dosnt bother us at all,its the oldys round the corner winging about it pointing and shaking there heads,a women came round to my naighbours house with the petition to get shut of the bird but after a few mins we found out she only lived here 4 weeks!!!! so how can you get so annoyed about this bird in only 4 weeks,they nothing else to winge about thats what.what next 6 foot posters and boards up on the lane saying kill the bird lol

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funny u should say that park381 my dad said that but dave moved about 1/2 mile from me where as he used to live about 2 or 3 miles away,unless he loved it really and dumped it near to his new house hoping it would recognise him mmmmmmmmmmm the plot thickens lol great idea willow ill draw one up tomoz is there any takers on here?

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I have never heard of a homing peacock :D

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Perhaps the peacock could be trained in the same way that guide dogs are? lt could then win over the pensioners by doing odd jobs, collecting their pensions, light household chores etc.

The noise it makes could also be utilised as an early warning system for any undesiribles, selling pegs, double glazing etc.

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For those who have not heard the delightfull sound of a peacock look here


http://www.aptr83.dsl.pipex.com/Accy...ff/peacock.wav

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thanks neil,but i'll pass

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I am sorry but that is not what peacocks sound like! The ones I have heard are described as "mewing";it's a two syllable high pitched call;fine examples to be heard on "Bram Stoker's Dracula". I spent a whole fortnight on holiday in a cottage that had peacocks wandering in the garden and never heard that noise!

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Just had another brief think about this;tintin said the peacock responds to high pitched noises;I must have heard the peahen making her call;the high pitched one;to which the peacock then responds with that racket! Ok;peacock pie it is then;short crust or puff???;)

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Ohhh get you staying in a cottage with its very own peacocks.... very upmarket I must say :p

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Been practiseing (how the hell do you spell practiceing) the peacock call and will do a rendition of it at the next meeting.In fact we will all have a do at it 5 pints to the winner.you lot up for it?

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Now is this peacock or peahen Staggers? I can do a great peahen,but sadly I won't be there....

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Take it to Blackpool Zoo, they have them there, i spent all day following them to get a feather but it wouldnt give me one and i gave it some of my crisps i was gutted. So i bought some off ebay instead they are lovely and i got 10 of em.

I heard they were bad luck off some people but i also heard in feng sui they were protectors of the house i got that of the internet, we will soon find out which one is the right one i will keep you posted on any fortunes and misfortunes.

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Mummiboo has alway's had a fixation for peacock's.
Even has a little girl she would wait and watch the peacocks strutting there stuff for ages.
She would get quite upset when we had to leave the birds.
Mummiboo would always ask them politley every time we saw them for one of their feathers. But she was never rewarded with one.
The outing always end up with her throwing an hissyfit coz we had to go and she had no feather.

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Well, personally...I wouldn't have them in the house. They are supposed to represent the evil eye. although I am a cynical old bird myself, I am quite superstitious.

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are peacocks spreading?went to lidl this afternoon about3-45 one was strolling along the pavement by hyndburn park school.

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The peacocks that live on an adjacent property don't honk like that. This lot give a high pitched scream for 'Help' and in the dead of night that's exactly what it sounds like. The peacock in the url above must have had a sore throat:D :D , but by jeez, they're good to eat.:)

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"Peacocks I 've known".....Willow, that sounds like some dodgy book title!