My apologies to Oak Cliff People for missing this yesterday, but Georgia Fisher is all over the case of the missing neighborhood peacocks in the Beckley Club Estates area of Oak Cliff.
Most of the birds are missing for the first time in more than 20 years, as Lakeview Drive residents tell me, and they’re convinced police and animal-control officers rounded them up in answer to a complaint on March 30. That’s when officers from both departments paid a joint visit to the home of Kay and Melvin Anderson, who aren’t the only folks on their block to feed the peacocks on a regular basis.
Animal Services staff seem certain they left with a lone duck that evening, and only then because he was waddling around loose, with no one claiming ownership. Meanwhile, police say the group took various birds, but returned them to their owner. (What owner? Odd, right?) Problem is, no one I’ve spoken with actually saw the vans leave.
A petition to Save the Peacocks has been started.
