'RIP Kevin': Peacock who became a London lockdown symbol of hope is killed by foxes

[Emrys]

10. This one didn't call much.

I believe he was a juvenile just coming into full plumage (he had a full-looking tail but never saw him displaying), and I think his owner also had a mate for him wandering around somewhere, but they didn't seem to pay each other much attention in our eyeshot.

It was more the sheer physical presence and randomness in a smallish garden, plus a beak that looked like it could do some serious damage to plants and who knows what else (including the cat). It seemed more dimwitted than ferocious, but it didn't back down when physically obstructed or shooed.

They're all very well in grand parks, but not rambling through the neighbourhood uncared for.

There are a few that have gone feral at one spot on the road to Loch Lomond from here. They began a decade or more ago as a couple owned by someone, who then died, and there's been a few around there ever since.