Look At Me!

It must be mating season because the peacocks (and peahens) from the park across from our club are all over the place and making these sounds they make (it sort of sounds like 'help' or 'oww' or 'no' at times and you'd think someone was in distress). They are an anathema to shiny cars because they see their reflection and have a prideful fight with the reflection.

I showed one interacting with a car early in our first embrace of City Daily Photo blogging. This one shows one perched on the club's wall where they tend to be frequently and is a good front view to go with that one.

Unexpected Oranges

We don't have oranges in Austin. It gets too cold in the winter for citrus trees, really. But this tree, tucked between a tennis court wind screen (which protects it from the north wind) and a stone wall produces a scad of oranges to be pecked at by wildlife (perhaps the peacocks like them?) and tossed about by vandals.

He's So Beautiful

There is a park across the street from our club and they have peacocks there. You sometimes see them wandering in the street or, as in this fellow's case, admiring themselves in a shiny car finish. Their cries sound like a high-pitched 'HELP!' and sometimes if you yell at yourself for a bad shot on the tennis court a cry from a peacock will answer.