This wee chick, hatched and raised by Mrs Flowers, came out for her first walk today. Meet Violet. 
She was endlessly stalked by the cats. They scared her up into the top of a pine tree at one point then they circled the base of the tree like tigers. Boo found her, and she was rescued so the cats spent the day happily sleeping in the garage while Mrs Flowers took her baby,Violet, for a walk.
They spent most of the day hanging out with the Turkeys and Geraldine.
If Violet survives this next dangerous period of her life she will be a lovely wee peafowl. Uncaged has its dangers.
But I think she will be alright. She is a very good flyer already and Nanny Boo is never far behind to send those pesky cats up their own trees. The bad ones can spend time in Coventry sleeping in the abandoned hay baler. 
Poppy is incorrigible.
Today we are taking poles and signs and putting up the “No Shooting” notices down by the creek that is really a ditch – we are getting very close to pheasant hunting season and I do not want men with guns on my property or close to it. Not with all these birds!
I hope you have a lovely day.
Love celi
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24 responses to “Violet comes out to play”
There is little virtue in being the first to comment if one has not yet gone to bed, she mumbled sleepily. Love, Gayle…penitent at last.
Ha, Mrs Flowers and Violet now seeking out the protection of Geraldine and her Turkeys 🙂 Egoli wouldn’t be one of the naughty cats in Coventry, would he? Love the picture of Poppy happily grazing alongside the cattle, seen nowhere else except on the farmy. Laura
What a lovely little bird. Good Boo!
Well done Mrs Flowers 😉
She’s gorgeous – hope the cats leave her in peace or she’ll become a Shrinking Violet 😦
I don’t want men with guns near anything at all. I have a hard time with that. Make those signs big and bold and super visible!!!
Yes, big red signs with either black or red letters saying No Hunting! It seems very dangerous there with your flat land. The bullets, or shotgun shells could go anywhere! 😦 Violet is precious! Sure hope she stays close to Mama!
I worried that our cats would attack our hen and turkey chicks and our ducklings – especially those that we hatched in an incubator and then popped outside in a converted bike shed with heater and full access to the front garden – but they seem to know not to cross that line – thank fully. Hope she survives and flourishes.
She is a lovely little bird. And very strong looking already. Poppy is the social girls isn’t she!
I’m thinking they should give the animals guns to make it fair. That you should have to put up signs is beyond me. How wonderful of Boo to be Nanny to the birds.
thanks for the “No Hunting” reminder- we need to post ours also.
What a beauty!
Need to put the signs up too – heard shots in the woods behind my property this morning (could even BE on my property but I wasn’t up to investigating!). Poor dogs and cats hate the noise! What annoys me is I live at the base of the Blue Ridge mountains where there is acres and acres of land for hunting, why must they do it so close to houses????
She’s awfully cute…
Chasse interdite signs (no hunting) are common in these parts, but the hunters are arrogant so and sos and think they can shoot anything that moves, icluding cats.
What a lovely baby – I hope you can rear her to adulthood.
love,
ViV xox