“Like clockwork, three, half three-ish [in the morning], just, like, high-pitched – I can’t explain it, it’s like cats fighting or foxes but it’s pretty grating to be honest,” Dwayne said of the birds’ wake-up calls.
“It lasts maybe 40 minutes, half an hour and then they just go off on their jollies again, so you get used to it.
“Through the day it’s sound, but at night, just keep them in the cage.
“But to be honest, I can’t really complain, it’s funny.”
One resident said the birds were “very cute,” meanwhile another said she thought they were “brilliant”.
“The kids absolutely love them, but the only thing is they come and wake us up at, like, five o’clock in the morning,” she said.
“They’re not really affecting me at all.”
Another neighbour, who did not want to be named, confessed to feeding the peacocks.
“There’s a few people that feed them in the street,” she said.
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