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

[Emrys]

8. Peacocks in a built-up environment are a pain.

Some fairly distant neighbours of ours got one a while back, and let it roam free.

The first I knew of it was when this rather large bird fluttered/crash-landed in our garden and resisted all efforts to herd it or shoo it away. It was exotic-looking, but it was very obstinate and had quite an attitude. I didn't fancy our cat's chances against it.

It hung around, perching on various neighbours' outbuilding roofs or strutting around doing its stuff for a month or so, its owner impervious to multiple pleas to keep it under some sort of control, before disappearing.

I've no idea what its fate was - a traffic accident, a very lucky fox, or relocation?