Birds – Page 93 – Sequim Daily Photo

Haliaeetus leucocephalus

There have been eagles out down by the water almost every time we go down there.

These are from the Game Farm. Driving around the roads in that area it’s pretty common to spot a peacock. In the parking lot they usually roam all around too. These were in the parking lot and they all wanted to come up for a visit (used to people giving food.) I was just looking up information on peacocks about their coloring and found the following on the peafowl Wikipedia page:

The male (peacock) Indian Peafowl has iridescent blue-green or green colored plumage. The so-called “tail” of the peacock, also termed the “train,” is not the tail quill feathers but highly elongated upper tail coverts. The train feathers have a series of eyes that are best seen when the tail is fanned. Both species have a crest atop the head.

The female (peahen) Indian Peafowl has a mixture of dull green, brown, and grey in her plumage. She lacks the long upper tail coverts of the male but has a crest. The female can also display her plumage to ward off female competition or danger to her young.

It was a lesson to me that the females are called peahens, I’ve always just said peacocks.

For the birds

next time I know to bring more because when you try to feed a couple it’s like an alert goes out in the area for all to come and this was only a tiny portion of those who showed up.