Yes indeedy!
By all means use them. You can catch them when they are strutting, and fanning their tail feathers out, just slip up behind them, and grab them. However, if they are running wild, don't bother trying to get close enough to throw something at them, or try running after them once they start running, You will never get close, and then when you think you are gaining on them, they will just fly off. I have tried that when I was younger, and tried to get close enough to hit them with a nice sized rock, and take it home, but that didn't work out. Shoot them!
They are quite tasty . You can use the wing feathers, which have multiple colors, from barred, to golden bronze. The tail feathers will make great trade items to the fly tiers on here. Peacock hurl is always in demand. They do make a bit of noise!
they will honk like a Bombay Taxi, and then start with "Harrah, Harrah! among other vocalizations. they have beautiful feathers, for fly tying, both the long tail feathers, and the back and neck feathers. And again they are quite tasty! If you have nice shiny car, and mating season is in, they will see their reflection, and peck the snot out of your nice shiny car paint. In fact you will have to do some mighty fine buffing, to having to have the finish redone. I know this, as a Friend of mine has a couple of nice old cars,he shows, including President Harry Truman's presidential Cadillac. Well he comes out one day to see his neighbor's Peacock pecking the heck out of his 57 Chevy, and his multi layer finish! He ended up having to have it redone.
I know the sand hill cranes will do the same. We had a nesting pair, that would nest each year, in one of the ponds at our station, and one of the guys was pissed, that they had pecked his car....... "really well!"
Yes use those feathers! And if you have some corn, and a fishing rod, with a sliding noose, at the end of the line and have the noose on the ground, around the corn, and the peacock stick his head down to peck the corn,........ well you get the idea......
Or you could tell your neighbor you have seen a coyote around lately, and one evening, a uh, stray arrow, might accidentally hit and kill the noisy bird, well you could just take a bag of some scrap feathers and the feet, over to the neighbor, and say, well I guess the ol Coyote got him
......... Look sad of course, and say, "Yeah, actually I really liked that bird." Don't mention you meant the flavor though......
And mention that you figured something was up, as you were able to sleep in that day.
Wayne
