Partially white peacock visiting my yard

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I've been so excited about the [very late!] arrival of pea chicks this season, I really wasn't thinking in terms of something else being as exciting. But there is!

Although I've seen him before, his visits were very infrequent, but now--all of a sudden--this beautiful boy has become a regular in my yard. From my research, I believe that he's an India Blue Pied peacock, although he may be an India Blue Pied White-eyed peacock. I'll have to do a bit more looking around to figure it out for sure.

Meanwhile, please enjoy some pics I've taken during the last few days of this unusual, lovely peacock. He's still a youngster, probably between one and two years old.

Closeups of his side and back feathers; note the beginnings of white feathers on his back--which will hopefully become long, beautiful white 'eye' feathers when he matures.

Just hanging out on my garage roof:

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Baby peacocks FINALLY arrived!

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I was starting to get worried, as we were now two weeks beyond the usual date that peahens and their new chicks start wandering the neighborhood. Then, yesterday, it finally happened--baby chicks! The mother peahen was in my neighbor's front yard with her five little chicks. The sun was completely in the wrong spot for good photos, but I had to work with what I had, so I started snapping away. As of today I still haven't had any baby peacocks in my yard, but it's just a matter of time. Once they're here I'll get better photos, but for now here are a few from yesterday:







If you're interested in seeing a lot of photographs of peacocks in varying stages of maturity, please see our earlier post, Baby peacocks in my yard

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Baby peacocks should arrive any day now!

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Going back through photos I've taken in the spring over the years, I found that the earliest arrival [in my yard] of baby peacocks was on May 14th. Today is May 11th...so they should start showing up any minute now. I can't wait! My new camera, a Nikon D5100 with its 70-300mm lens attached, will be ready and waiting. As soon as I see the first chick(s) and their mother peahen(s) I'll be snapping photos like crazy.

Meanwhile, be sure to check out our baby peacocks post, which includes a lot of photos of peahens, peachicks at various stages of age, and young/immature peacocks and peahens.