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Article: Exotic guest livens local color; Wayward peacock from woods raises eyes in Millbury.(NEWS)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- July 20, 2007
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Byline: Donna Boynton
MILLBURY - Residents in the West Main Street neighborhood are used to seeing birds that come out of the woods - wild turkeys, pheasants, blue jays and cardinals.
But not a peacock.
Christos Andrianopoulos and his wife were sitting on their back deck last weekend when a peacock emerged from the wooded area behind their home.
"It walked right by us, as if to say `Look at me!'" Mr. Andrianopoulos said. "We were all shocked."
Since then, the royal-blue-breasted peacock has been a regular visitor to the West Main Street neighborhood, finally making its way yesterday into the fenced yard of Brenda Mackoul at ...