{"id":537,"date":"2009-11-29T11:51:27","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T16:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.50.23\/wordpress\/blog\/?p=537"},"modified":"2018-04-07T16:45:49","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T20:45:49","slug":"peacock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/29\/peacock\/","title":{"rendered":"A Peacock on the Deck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, with Thanksgiving dinners safely in the past, a few dozen wild turkeys emerged from the woods to dine on sunflower seeds beneath the bird feeder.\u00a0 One bird flew up onto the deck to get a closer look at cache of seeds hanging from the pole.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen many wild turkeys up close, and several have been on the deck before, but this one looked different.\u00a0 It had hairy feathers growing vertically from its head, a white face, and a shiny green neck.\u00a0 I jokingly remarked that a peacock is on the deck.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_538\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-538\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.50.23\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Peackock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-538\" title=\"Peackock\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.50.23\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Peackock-200x146.jpg\" alt=\"Female Indian Blue Peacock\" width=\"200\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-538\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Female Indian Blue Peacock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And I was so close.\u00a0 Only the males are referred to as peacocks, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Peacock_courting_peahen.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according the picture on Wikipedia<\/a>, it appeared that this was an Indian Blue Peahen.\u00a0 I have no idea where this bird came from, but I&#8217;m assuming that it&#8217;s an escaped domesticated bird.\u00a0 I never heard of peafowl in Michigan, and I don&#8217;t know if it can survive the winter, but it was a pleasant surprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, with Thanksgiving dinners safely in the past, a few dozen wild turkeys emerged from the woods to dine on sunflower seeds beneath the bird feeder.\u00a0 One bird flew &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upnorth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4286,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions\/4286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}