Cat informed me that there was some sort of crisis outside, so I went out there and:
🦚❓
How have I lived within “casual visit” distance of peacocks for six months and not been aware of it? Because like.
Anyway @elodieunderglass a um. Not particularly exciting contender for the leucism channel except she’s very polite? And possibly lonely?
My tomatoes!!
She is from half a mile away and she came here, to my garden, to perch on the heat pump and eat half of seven (7) tomatoes.
She’s been returned to her person.
I should note that I wasn’t here when she was returned to her person, so when I talked to our block organizer I found that the peahen’s person brought a very large net and they chased the peahen into a corner and caught her like Elmer Fudd
@kedreeva
She's not leucistic!
That is a blackshoulder Peahen, and they all look like that. The boys do not look like that, they look like a normal peacock, but instead of a barred wing pattern, they have a solid colored wing. In the wild color, that means a solid black wing, but in other colors it will be solid [insert morph color here] instead. The mutation got named blackshoulder because it mutated in the wild color and everyone at the time thought it would give ALL mutations a black wing. In practice, it just removes the light bars from the feathers and leaves the darker solid base color.
Peahens, being very very very finely barred all over, turn cream instead. Personally I love this pattern on them!
