As darkness started to fall, my favorite peacock pet came around the carport area for one last look for food before he would soon fly up to a nearby tree for the night. He is such a beautiful and friendly bird with his long blue neck, green fan feathers, and brown flying wings on the sides of his body. I need to tell you, though, that he does not fly up into the tree for the night in one flight move. He has to fly up to the carport roof first. Then, he flies up to a higher part of the house next. Finally, he can eventually position himself for the last leg of his flight from the house to a big oak tree.
Tonight I saw something unusual as he was making his last round through the carport. The lightning bugs were out, and he was looking in the sliding glass door longingly at me when suddenly a slow moving firefly passed right by his beak. He promptly caught the lightning bug with his mouth and swallowed him whole. I didn't know he was that fast. Then, again, lightning bugs are pretty slow. I caught plenty of them when I was a kid. Several minutes after this my pet peacock disappeared for the night.
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