That’s not a wildflower on my head, but please don’t pick it, either!
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Photo is of a resident peacock at Mayfield Park and Preserve in Austin, Texas. This park is a historical estate known for its beautiful gardens, lovely old cottage, gorgeous peafowl, and many acres of nature preserve. It was pretty wet and drizzly during much of my visit, but I plan to do a photo tour at a later date.
The feathers on top of the peacock are called its crest. It’s interesting to note that the peacock’s crest is blue to match his feathers, and the peahen’s crest is brown to match hers. Here’s another view.
The peafowl were happily looking for bugs on the damp ground. Did you know they eat ticks? They could walk behind the deer in our city and just feast away.
I didn’t know that they eat ticks. Peacocks are such characters as birds. We have many of them in the LA Arboretum. The hens and chicks are so much fun to watch in the spring.
Cute peacocks, and useful as well, if they consume ticks.
I’ll take 10.
Rosey
I find it funny that in much of the animal world it IS in fact the males that get to do the peacocking and swanning to get the girl, and our species took it backwards. Not to generalize 100%, but I think there are way more makeup users and implant buyers that are female, not to mention the colorful clothing, etc. Humph.
Excellent point, Tatiana. I guess some men do a fair amount of their own kind of macho stuff to get a mate, but typically less so in the fashion department (and sometimes too much of the macho, for that matter). Historically speaking, much of what women had to do to “beautify” themselves (or sometimes the opposite, to hide their beauty) was because of men (corsets, high heels, bound feet, and so forth). Boy is that off-subject for a garden blog, haha!
cute peacock. They do ticks?. At first the flower does seem to be the part of the bird. we have some pretty ones in safari park with white feathers and they look just as stunning.
I love the iridescence of the peafowl’s feathers and have tried to capture it in paintings with minimal success. Great photos of them here, can’t wait to see the next set!
What a beautiful peacock! The colors are more vibrant than I’ve seen before. We were lucky to see one walking around a park this year and it was so beautiful. I kept waiting for it to spread it’s feather but it didn’t happen.
From what I understand, they fan their feathers when it’s courtship time, in winter. Check them out then!
Lovely peacock. But where are his tail feathers?
Hi Meredith, your photos are so gorgeous. I am smitten with this beautiful peacock, enchanting colors! I love how that sign was right above his head.He or she looked like an enchanted crowned creature!Thankyou for visiting my blog and the wonderful comments you left. Much appreciated! I have been enjoying myself exploring your blog..so much to look at and i love your photos. A wonderful charming blog..keep creating.. it is fantastic!
Kiki, you are welcome anytime. Thank you so much for your kind words!