garden photography: peacock in the park

In March I’m looking for Wildlife in the Garden

(This month I want to see photos and stories about wildlife in the ‘garden’ – insects, spider, birds, rabbits, hedgehog, fox, snake (!) whatever you can find in your garden, public gardens, lakes, parks. But please not the family dog!)

Eye-spots

Finding a peacock is not all that difficult. Finding one that actually opens his iridescent tail can be somewhat more challenging. These tail feathers, or coverts, spread out in a distinctive train that is more than 60 percent of the bird’s total body length and boast colourful “eye” markings of blue, gold, red, and other hues.

Fan-shaped Crest

In the Parque Marechal Carmona, Cascais, Portugal several Indian peafowl were strutting their stuff, the males trying to impress the white peahen (header image). I wanted to get a shot of the fan-like crest of spatula-tipped wire-like feathers as well as those stunning ‘eye-spots’. And luckily one obliged by opening up his tail feathers. Impressed me.

If you would like to join in with Garden Photography then please take a look at my Garden Photography Page. No complicated rules 🙂

• Create your own post and title it March: Wildlife in the Garden
• Include a link to this page in your post so others can find it too
• Add the tag “GardenChallenge” so everyone can find the posts easily in the WP Reader
• Get your post in by the end of the month, as the new theme comes out on the first Sunday in April.
• Please visit the sites in the comments to see what others are posting.