康小詩的貓窩

           The Kingdom of Peacocks

  If you come to CTTB, you ‘ll say this place is the Kingdom of Peacocks .  You can see peacocks anywhere at anytime.

  Peacock has long tail feathers with large eye-like blue-green spots.  When a peacock spreads out its long tail feathers, it looks like a colorful folding screen.  It is indeed a beautiful and wonderful scene.

  Peacocks in CTTB like to show off all the time. They spread out their long tail feathers often, especially when peahens (female peacocks) are near by.

  Peacock’s voice is very special, sounds loud and shrill.  You will be wondering why they are wearing “beautiful” feathers but singing “ugly”.

There are many peahens in CTTB too, but they are always quiet and shy and eating grass in the yard.  They don’t have the same long tail feathers as male peacocks, and the color of their feathers are only in gray.

Peacocks eat wild grass or flowers (I saw a peacock eating rose enjoyably ) mainly, but I feed fruits or cookies to them sometimes.  One day, a long snake was crawling in front of the gate of our dorm, and a peacock was walking around and keeping eyes on the snake at the same time without any assault.  My friend told me that peacock likes to eat snake, but since we were there too, so it didn’t eat the snake at all (Maybe he know we are vegetarian).  I say hello to them always, because I am only a passing traveler in this kingdom of peacocks.

There were ever several white peacocks in CTTB many years ago also, but I can see only few white peahens right now.  They were always walking slowly on the path in CTTB like peaceful angels.  I miss them whenever I am walking on the path too.

⊙ I wrote a story many years ago, and I got the inspiration from peafowl (both male & female peacocks ) .  Next article I’ll po it. (in Chinese!)