“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.<\/p>\n
“It lasts maybe 40 minutes, half an hour and then they just go off on their jollies again, so you get used to it.<\/p>\n
“Through the day it’s sound, but at night, just keep them in the cage.<\/p>\n
“But to be honest, I can’t really complain, it’s funny.”<\/p>\n
One resident said the birds were “very cute,” meanwhile another said she thought they were “brilliant”.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
“They’re not really affecting me at all.”<\/p>\n
Another neighbour, who did not want to be named, confessed to feeding the peacocks.<\/p>\n
“There’s a few people that feed them in the street,” she said.<\/p>\n
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