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Schul peacock caper

June 13, 2018 15:56
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The Etz Chaim synagogue in Leeds has a new member of the congregation; a Peacock called Pinchus.

The bird appeared a couple of days after Shavuot. It had apparently been nesting in a nearby water tower but moved home to the trees in the grounds of synagogue.

“It just appeared one day,” said Rabbi Anthony Gilbert. “It goes from tree to tree around the car park but also likes to sit of the roof. If you look up quite often you see it’s head peeping over the parapet”.

The congregants have named the bird "Pinchus". When it first appeared, the Etz Chaim contacted the RSPCA, the police and nearby Harewood House which has a bird garden but no one had reported any of them missing.

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