It's not another peacock, it's your reflection!!!

Wow what a shock - you have to watch these old birds!!! Glad you are getting the insurance.

That'll teach you to have a clean, shiny car! Oh grief. How awful though. Insurance company may not have seen that one before! Attacked by Peacock! I would hazard a guess it could t cut out though (is that the term, t cut? tea cut? I don't know but you know what I mean) if you have, as most do, excess on your insurance and it's just scratch marks. And it's the first I've heard of a store owning a peacock, so are they actually responsible? Seems they are if the security guard took details. Well I never. Always something to surprise you on GN!

We have to cover the wing mirrors of our car every spring because bluetits 'fight' the rivals they can see in them and in so doing, they shit all over the car.

We had a gander who used to fight a stainless steel bowl because of his reflection in the bottom of it! We still have the bowl. I call it the Bertie Bowl after the gander.

Give these birds Asbos!

Granddaughter and I were at our local canal moorings and a Swan 'attacked'a parked car. Vicious little bugger it was and that car was damaged too.

Ooh, I haven't seen any peacocks in the car park there.

Must be aware next time.
(I love Trago Mills even if I end up not buying anything)

Seagulls need Asbos

This was the top car park Jalima, right round the back behind the garden centre. We usually park there these days and use the rear entrance, by the lake where the ducks are.

Ah! We have been round there (the pick-up point?, loads of room) to pick up some plants

No, not the pick-up point. You drive past all the pick-up points, just keep going and the road bears round to the left all around the back of the store, back of the garden centre - literally right at the very top end of the whole site. There's a huge car park there! And you walk down past the go-karts and restaurants to the rear entrance of the store.

Oh!
No, we have never been that far, nor on the go-karts! (never had little people with us when we go there).
We just park at the side, which was better last time we went, they had tarmacked it.

I bet you're going to drive round the back next time you're there, just to investigate

There is more to that site than most people realise!

And this one

This is the beast that chased DD and I...but it was in a safari park, not a car park.

A farmer friend of ours had a turkey left over at Christmas, it took over the farmyard and eventually became dangerous to anyone who came in. It was huge and vicious, he took his shotgun to it eventually.

It was probably lonely, missing all its turkey-dinner friends

breeze yes, Trago Mills own the peacocks - there are several of them roaming around the site, as well as ducks and geese. It's rather more than yer average store! They market it as a family day out and actually it is, I guess. There is a miniature railway, go-karts, lakes filled with ducks and other water birds - yesterday we were watching some coots with their babies, so cute! There are several fast food outlets, restaurants, playgrounds for children. and several independent shops that rent lockups on site.

Oh and a huge garden centre, that claims to be the largest in (I think) the South West.

Thanks Indi. I don't live that way so didn't have a clue. Sounds great, if you don't have a shiny car!

I have this problem, I live next door to DD and she has a peacock and peahens. They occasionally get on my car but I get them off immediately. They like shiny things probably because they like admiring themselves. My SIL put a large mirror next to the hen houses and from my window I can see in the distance the peacock and peahens often gazing at their reflection. Sometimes it's the three male turkeys, occasionally a rooster or hen. I have also seen the two ducks looking in the mirror. It's a popular spot.

Is that a Queenslander Faye? Or a very posh playhouse?

It's a playhouse, my SIL is a builder. There is a sandpit underneath and the red slippery dip.

I am impressed! It just looks very Australian.

I guess it is, Dd also has a joey (baby kangaroo). She was found by the side of the road late at night. Her mother had been killed by a car, the joey was about five months old then. She is fed every four hours but sleeps through the night, she likes to spend most of her time in her material pouch, she gets taken for a hop around every day but soon is looking for her pouch. I often babysit, just have to feed her and she goes straight back in her pouch, very easy.