Happiness is Pea Chicks....

Having seen the peahen sitting on eggs she laid for the last few weeks, we were most excited to hear and see tiny little fledglings underneath her yesterday.  Why on earth she decided to make a hollow and lay her eggs outside with no protection from the elements, only she knows, but that is what she did.  After lying in the baking sun for days on end and then enduring that huge storm we had some weeks back, I took pity on her and built her a shelter.  She didn't move in all the time I took fussing around her and fitting the board above and to one side of her.  The other side was sheltered by the chicken coop as she had positioned herself right next to it.  Every morning and evening when I went out to feed the chickens and peafowl she just sat and sat and sat...till today. Very proud of her little chicks she has been strutting around with them all day long....as for the peacock, you would think that he alone bred the little fluffy bundles out all by himself, as he too hasn't stopped showing off his now straggly tail.  Four little chicks, quite a feat for a pair, happy as ever with life...