Sequim Daily Photo

These are from the Game Farm.  Driving around the roads in that area it’s pretty common to spot a peacock.  In the parking lot they usually roam all around too.  These were in the parking lot and they all wanted to come up for a visit (used to people giving food.)  I was just looking up information on peacocks about their coloring and found the following on the peafowl Wikipedia page:

The male (peacock) Indian Peafowl has iridescent blue-green or green colored plumage. The so-called “tail” of the peacock, also termed the “train,” is not the tail quill feathers but highly elongated upper tail coverts. The train feathers have a series of eyes that are best seen when the tail is fanned. Both species have a crest atop the head.

The female (peahen) Indian Peafowl has a mixture of dull green, brown, and grey in her plumage. She lacks the long upper tail coverts of the male but has a crest. The female can also display her plumage to ward off female competition or danger to her young.

It was a lesson to me that the females are called peahens, I’ve always just said peacocks.

I took this from the parking lot at the Olympic Game Farm.  That is the area where the elk and buffalo roam.  I haven’t been in there for a while.

Last day of 2010…have fun celebrating or sleeping tonight, whichever way you bring in the new year!

I love driving by these horses.  I posted them working earlier in the year.

My husband and I both saw elk herds yesterday.  The top two pictures I took in Sequim and the bottom two he took out towards Clallam Bay.