GB News reporter Jack Carson has confronted a wild peacock as residents fear for a wild flock taking over their village.Residents in the Staffordshire village have expressed mixed opinion on the flock of peacocks residing in their neighbourhood.WATCH ABOVE.
00:00Well, we're going straight to Tuckbury in Staffordshire, where Jack Carson is on the search of not terribly elusive peacocks.
00:11Yeah, good morning to you both. Well, we have found some peacocks, so we've been speaking to people today,
00:16hearing from them how much of a nuisance they say they are.
00:19It is a real mix, though, here. Some people saying that actually they're all right, that they're part of the furniture of this village now.
00:25You can see this peacock here showing all of its feathers. I'm going to be very honest with you.
00:31We have just seen it attempt to mate the peahen that you can see behind it there.
00:35And this showing of feathers is part of the thing, what they do, part of the mating call here as well,
00:41to try and show all of the feathers off and everything like that.
00:46And there's a thing that these are train rattling as well. I wonder if Mr. Peacock might talk to us.
00:52Mr. Peacock, would you know? Come on, Jack. Come on, Jack. We need you to get involved.
00:56I'm not sure. Not sure. Is TV news, Jack Carson?
00:58This is your big David Aspen for a moment, Jack.
01:00Any questions to say to the nuisance you might be causing people? Any response?
01:04Well, this feels a little bit intimate now. There's a bit of a moment going on. It's all got a bit voyeuristic.
01:08I'm very happy to talk to us so far this morning, but some residents of Tuckbury here have spoken to us this morning.
01:13Take a listen to what they've told us about what they think about all these peacocks.
01:16They've been here longer than I have, so I've lived in the house. I've lived in at the top here 47 years.
01:25They've been there all that time. Of course, they were from the castle to start with, the people that the castle used to have them.
01:33And they're just part of the village.
01:37I ate them. And when they do all that damage, it's heartbreaking, you know?
01:42Yeah, round them up and take them to a farm or a zoo, where they're supposed to be.
01:51They're like furniture. They should stay around here, you know?
01:53People just need to let them get on with what they are, their nature's animals, and they deserve to live around here, don't they?
02:00You know, you heard from those residents there, you know, exactly what they think.
02:05Some people say, gentlemen, obviously he hates it. The poor man, he's a pensioner, he's been saying he can't afford to keep trying to buy furniture as well.
02:12But it's not just the gardens and everything else. You know, it's on the roof.
02:16Let's hear that. We've got three on the roof peacocks here.
02:19One of them all the way at the top, two of them here.
02:21And when you hear that pitter-pattering on the roof as well, a gentleman here in number one has just come out to speak to us.
02:28He's just told us that he has to wear earplugs at night to try and actually stop the noise because it's two, three, four o'clock in the morning that they're making all of this noise as well.
02:38And we've got time to just come over here as well.
02:40So I want to show you, this is the level that the residents here in Tutbury are going to, to try and basically stop these peacocks on their fences.
02:49Because, of course, when they sit on the fences all day, they're also pooing as well.
02:52And you've got a peacock, another peacock on the roof here.
02:54They all are. But have a look at some of the fences here.
02:59These are spikes that you can buy online to stop things like pigeons and other birds as well.
03:06The residents here in Tutbury have gone to, to try and stop, try and stop these, these peacocks from sitting on their fences and stop being such a nuisance.
03:15But, of course, some people hate them. They're a bit marmite here in Tutbury.
