TWO peacocks which kept residents of Langho awake while singing from the rooftops may have spread their wings and arrived in nearby Barrow.

The peacocks descended on the garden of Barbara Gladwin, 74, who lives in an unadopted track off Whalley Road, Barrow and started nibbling her gooseberries.

She said: "Two peacocks arrived about two weeks ago and were quite happily sitting on the roof of my house. They disappeared, but one of them returned a few days ago and has been eating my gooseberries.

"It is very tame and not a bit afraid of people. It can't have come very far, although it is looking a bit bedraggled and its tail is very droopy."

Two peacocks caused a stir in Langho several weeks ago after making their home on the roofs of houses and singing at night.

Philip Pozzi, who lives next door to Barbara Gladwin, said he did not know of the peacocks, who are now in his garden, were from Langho.

"They have come into my garden from next door. Last week there were two of them and now there is only one," he said. My wife, Patricia and I bought four last year, but they disappeared. We're not sure if two of them have come back and have no way of telling.

"They seem perfectly at home. They are very domesticated and we are quite happy for them to stay."

Tim Melling, a conservation officer with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, said peacocks were a native of India and the male of the species had huge colourful tails.

"They can fly, but only for short distances, he said. "They are extremely ornate and very popular as pets, although they make the most unearthly noise. They are a game bird, similar to a grouse or pheasant and I would say these two birds are almost certainly local, because peacocks can't travel very far.

"They are very domesticated and quite happy living off bird seed, although, if they are a pair, the new owners had better watch out, because their breeding season starts soon and there could be a lot of little peacocks running around!"