On 7/4/2013 11:45 AM, dsi1 wrote:
> On 7/4/2013 7:05 AM, casa bona wrote:
>>
>> Ah the islands, what a life you folks have...bet there are guinea fowl
>> about too...
>
> We might have but I haven't seen any in this town. They are pretty cute
> and I wouldn't mind. Oddly enough, there are peacocks in some places.
> There used to be some by my parent's house. I was visiting my parents
> once and heard a loud sound - more like a scream than a bird call. My
> brother said it was the peacocks that lived down the street. Sure enough
> I would see the birds walking about like they owned the place.
>
> Their call is a bit disquieting, so much so that a Makaha woman went
> crazy and killed one with a baseball bat. She was 68 years old at a time
> but she ran one down and bashed it's head in. That's some spunky old gal!
>
> http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/b...ost_it.htm l?
>

Lol!

It's every bit as creepy a sound as hearing foxes in the rut, albeit
different.

Thanks for sharing.