It’s Courting Season in this part of the World!

I hear the raucous calls at night, and the rattle of maracas during the days. What’s going on?

It’s breeding season for the peafowl! Yes, the cool dude is strutting his stuff and showing off for the ladies.  He didn’t wait for Valentine’s Day, but decided last Friday was a good day to start looking for love.

Besides the occasional blood-curdling screech, he also prances and dances and rattles his tailfeathers in his romantic efforts.

In a manner reminiscent of women wondering what’s under a kilt, the peahens are getting a peek at what that dude is hiding behind all those fancy feathers!

So just what IS back there?

Well, there’s those tail feathers that he rattles while he dances, the upright ones right behind the pretty feathers.

He also has some pretty fluffy feathers back there too.

All in all, he’s just a handsome dude no matter which angle you’re viewing.  Now if he can just convince the ladies of that.

And that’s the way it is in my part of the world!