Villagers in a flap as mystery peacock takes up residence in Calverton

Mystery surrounds the appearance of a peacock that seems to have become rather taken with a Gedling borough village.

The beautiful bird appears to have decided that Calverton is the ‘place to be’ for peacocks in Gedling borough.

The new Calverton celebrity has been snapped by residents on top of garden sheds, roofs, back gardens, gates and more.

Many have now taken to social media to share their snaps as the beautiful peacock moves around the village.

The question of where it came from is also causing a flap with suggestions that it may be one of two who are normally based at Smeaton Lakes wooded site, set in 80 acres of lakes and parkland in Newark.

Others have suggested that it’s a wild bird.

Charity www.helpwildlife.co.uk, provides advice to members of the public about wildlife.

They state that as peafowl are non-native, it is illegal to allow them to escape into the wild so the owner should take responsibility for them.

The mystery continues.