The
following is copied from The Guardian`s online edition of April 15th
2015.
A pride of
feral peacocks is causing havoc by attacking their own reflections in the
bodywork of cars parked too close to their territory around a West Country
estate. Apparently mistaking their own images
for encroaching love rivals, the birds of Clyst St Mary, Devon , are causing thousands of pounds of damage by
clawing away at vehicles.
The birds are believed to have roamed
wild around the Bishops Court estate in Devon
for years but people who live and work nearby say they have become bolder and
more aggressive. Drivers say their vehicles have been
left covered in scratches almost every day since spring sprung and the birds
became agitated and frisky. Penny Hill, a manager based on a
business estate close to Bishops
Court
“The peacocks, although beautiful to
look at, are becoming an incredible nuisance particularly around this time every
year as they are attacking and damaging vehicles. They are aggressive,
territorial and intimidating.
“My nice clean car sat in the car park
and a peacock spend all day attacking its reflection thinking it was another
bird and becoming territorial as it’s mating
season.
“The result was a bloody and scratched
mess where the pecking has completely ruined the back of my car, which I take
great pride and care with,” she said, adding: “I am not the first person working
on the estate that this has happened to.”
Hill said complaints had been made to
the estate, which is used as a venue for wedding
ceremonies.
But Bishops Court
A spokeswoman for Bishops Court
Earlier this month a swan hit the headlines for terrorising visitors on the river Cam in
Cambridge
There were 34
comments by today,7.50 a.m April 16th, one of which was: “I saw the
headline and thought that the article was going to be about misbehaving
upper-class twits......”
The reply being :”
Real upper class twits dont' give a t*** about their
car.
It's the plebs you should be worried about.
I refuse to make
things worse by commenting further!
Richard
P.S. The
*** was in The Guardian`s version.
