There I was, enjoying a decaf mocha grande at the Starbucks Lakeside Suite at the Elveden Forest Center Parcs resort in Suffolk, UK (possibly one of my favourite locations in the world to have a coffee, with perhaps the Starbucks just around the corner from the Jim Henson Company in Hollywood as a close second), when up strolls a peacock.
Now Elveden Forest is in that large assembly of trees known as Thetford Forest, and so wildlife isn't that unusual, but peacocks have that stately 'look at me' attitude rather more than your run-of-the-mill moorhen, mallard or grey squirrel.
Center Parcs has long been one of my favourite holiday destinations - an amazing way to get away from it all without getting too far away.
As you might expect, people put down their coffees and got out their cameras, and the peacock was suitably fawned over, admired, and talked about in hushed whispers. No sign of his peahen, though - perhaps her preference is for another brand of coffee?
Once all the fuss was over, a squirrel ran around the patio, weaving in and out between the chairs and tables, looking remarkably similar to the one that I'd snapped earlier in the morning from the villa. But this one was moving rather swiftly, and I only managed to catch a shot from behind my mug, and another of a twitching tail zipping away to the left behind a chair...
The squirrel that morning had turned on 'uber-cute' mode as it looked around the patio table...
Digital cameras and blog do enable the most remarkable uses of technology, don't they?
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