Peachicks, please!

The spring sunshine earlier in the week seems to have inspired Kevin.

He is making renewed efforts to captivate his girls, Gemima and Griselda.



Kevin displays both views to his girls.  Who knew?

Ahh, now here is the angle we most expect : )

They do seem interested...

"My, oh my"

The girls made a stunning nest last year, settling side by side inside an old, tipped over 10 gallon drum.  Unfortunately, the drum was located in a neighbouring farmers garden and the two needed to be moved back onto Jingle Bells at the farmers request.

We did our best to disrupt  Gemima and Griselda as little as possible during the move, but as you might guess, they didn't take kindly to being relocated and,sadly,  abandoned their clutch.

This season I am hopeful the girls will lay somewhere on Jingle Bells.  They seem to be scouting around for potential nesting sites and that's a great thing.

 After watching them favouring a sheltered spot near the poultry run, we hastily set up a potential nesting box for them.

The puddleducks thought it wonderful.

*sigh*

But there is hope.

Last year the piggies Mr Pumphrey, Little Pumphrey and Benny, were still free ranging and destroyed a preliminary nest the girls had made -which is probably the reason Gemima and Griselda set up camp on the neighbouring homestead. Sometimes there are exceptions to the saying 'bird brain' :)

 With the piggies now located in their very own field, the girls should feel safer to nest here on Jingle Bells

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Cross your fingers for us! I'm hoping we have pea chicks this year, and if I am very lucky there may be a pure white male in the hatchlings.

I'd love to hear about your own experiences with peafowl!