We have a male Peacock visit usually twice daily for cheese and wholemeal bread, he also gets a dish with a mix of grains and I try to grow vegetable greens he likes to eat. Last year he ate the lower leaves on my runner bean plants but couldn't quite reach the beans! Last year there was two males and a female, she hasn't turned up yet. He spends a lot of time calling for her, yesterday he was on top of a neighbour;s roof of a two story house, how he got up there I don't know. He sleeps high up at night in nearby tall oak trees, as it starts to fall dark he has to go quickly. Last night he didn't turn up until dusk, I was preparing a meal where he comes to our big south facing window. He was desperate for his cheese! I always go outside to feed him, my partner throws it out the window but I can't reach.
He knows that, recognises each of us, he greets ne at the steps leading up a bank.
We have a special connection, I want to hug him!