As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Tuesday, 7 April 2015

Rare white peacocks star attraction at Elizabethan hall in Shropshire

PUBLISHED: April 7, 2015 05:56 LAST UPDATED: April 7, 2015 10:02

Plantagenet and York were seen at a new moat aviary, set in the 15th century grass moat at Upton Cressett Hall and Gardens near Bridgnorth.

The rare male birds have their own home, to protect them from falling “fowl” of a nearby fox that has killed several of the aviary’s birds, which also features rare chickens and India Blue Peacocks.
Star attraction – one of the rare white peacocks on show at Upton Cressett Hall and Gardens near Bridgnorth
The chickens have all been supplied by the Gobbett Rare Fowl Farm near Burwarton but the white peacocks were sourced from Yorkshire for the property’s owner William Cash, by his wife Lady Laura.

Mr Cash said now the two new additions had settled in they were hoping to start their own white peacock family. “



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