My birds of the road story. For many years (till they chopped them down)I mooched the rhododendrum hill at Kepwick (North Yorkshire) Journeying on by car one day my way was barred by a peacock with full spread tail, another similar peacock 10yds further, again in the middle of the road. A parade of ducks and lings crossed the road between the peacocks who then stepped down and cleared the road.