PEACOCK TAIL DEVELOPMENT

This is "Captain Hook" my favorite mature peacock. He pulled out all his display feathers back in June (I ran around after him picking them up).

A couple of months ago he began to grow these new display feathers. They are wet and kind of yucky looking because he's been out foraging for insects in the drainage canal.

His eyeball feathers are the most unusual attribute of this feather-train. At full length we're expecting his train to be over five feet long.