The saga of the missing peacocks

Aug 20, 2026

There are some residents at Gobelo Farm who have become so much a part of everyday life that you hardly notice how attached everyone has become to them. Our peacocks are certainly among them. As we mentioned in one of our earlier blogs, about the Ladies and Lords of the lodge, these two birds were given to Elisabeth (One of the owners of Gwango) as a gift and have since made themselves very much at home around the farm.

The male, with his impressive plumage, and his rather more demure companion have spent much of their time around the pond, sharing their space with the ducks and becoming familiar faces to everyone who works at Gobelo. They have their favourite places, their usual routines and, of course, their favourite habit of climbing onto anything they can find.

The problem is that their definition of a suitable perch is not always the same as ours. The peacocks particularly enjoy climbing onto the project vehicles around the garage. They will settle themselves on top of cars that are being worked on, looking down at everyone. They have interrupted more than a few jobs, although nobody seems to mind too much. In fact, everyone secretly looks forward to these interruptions because there is almost always something funny happening when the peacocks are around.

So when the two suddenly disappeared, everyone noticed. At first, it was probably just a case of wondering where they had wandered off to. Then someone else noticed they had not seen them either. Then another person asked the same question. Then a frenzy around the farm ensued. Everyone was looking around the pond, checking their usual spots and trying to work out where two birds that normally make themselves very visible had gone.

It is surprising how quickly you miss something when you see it every single day. Eventually, the mystery was solved. The two missing peacocks were found high up in the trees, crouched together on some very high branches and apparently having a perfectly peaceful nap. We have watched these birds climb onto vehicles, fences and just about anything else that gives them a little height, but we had never realised they could actually fly quite so high. They had not been missing at all. They had simply found a new place to spend the afternoon.

The good news is that both birds are back to their usual routines, wandering around the farm, calling to each other and occasionally turning up somewhere they probably should not be. We now know to look even higher up when they disappear.

Until next time,
    The Gobelo Team