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WATCH: Jack Carson confronts PEACOCK as wild flock descend on Staffordshire village
Jun 3, 2025
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.
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Well, we're going straight to Tuckbury in Staffordshire where Jack Carson is on the search of not terribly elusive peacocks
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Yeah, good morning to you both. Well, we have found some peacocks, so we've been speaking to people today
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hearing from them how much of a nuisance they say they are. It 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
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You can see this peacock here showing all of its feathers. I'm going to be very honest with you
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We have just seen it attempt to mate the peahen that you can see behind it there
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And this showing of feathers is part of the thing, what they do, part of the mating call here as well
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to try and show all of the feathers off and everything like that
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And there's a thing that these are train rattling as well. I wonder if Mr. Peacock might talk to us
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Mr. Peacock, would you... Come on, Jack. Come on, Jack, we need you to get involved
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This is your big David Aspen for a moment, Jack. Any questions to say to the nuisance you might be causing people
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Although this feels a little bit intimate now, there's a bit of a moment going on, it's all got a bit voyeuristic
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I'm very happy to talk to us so far this morning, but some residents of Tupbury here have spoken to us this morning
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Take a listen to what they've told us about what they think about all these peacocks. They've been here longer than I have, so I've lived in the house
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they've been at the top here 47 years they've been there all that time because they were
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from the castle to start with the people that the castle used to have them and they just part of the village I ate them and when they do all that it heartbreaking you know Yeah round them up and take them to a farm or a zoo where they supposed to be
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They're like furniture, they should stay round here, you know, people just need to let them get on with what they are, their nature's animals and they deserve to live round here
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don't they? Oh, thanks, yes. You know, you heard from those residents there, you know, exactly what they think
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Some 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
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But it's not just the gardens and everything else. You know, it's on the roofs
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Let's hear, look, we've got three on the roof peacocks here. One of them all the way at the top, two of them here
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And 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
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He'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 all of this noise as well
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We've got time to just come over here as well. So I want to show you this is what one of the level of the residents here in Tuckbury are going to to try and basically stop these peacocks on their fences
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Because, of course, when they sit on the fences all day, they're also pooing as well
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And you've got a peacock, another peacock on the roof here. They all are
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But have a look at some of the fences here. These are spikes you can buy online to stop things like pigeons and other birds as well
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The 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
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But of course, some people hate them for a bit Marmite here in Tutbury
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