Peacock found in couple’s Brisbane bathroom leads to creative bid to reunite bird with tattoo artist

Geoff and Delwyn Ballantyne went out for an evening coffee last week. When they returned they found Hex admiring himself in the mirror

A peacock that seemingly fell hopelessly in love with himself in a bathroom mirror after breaking into a Brisbane house remains on the run after being evicted.

Geoff and Delwyn Ballantyne left their Alexandra Hills home last week for an evening coffee and returned to find a fully grown peacock gazing adoringly at himself in their bathroom mirror.

“We … assume the bird was in the front yard and, as we opened the garage door, he must have walked in,” Geoff said. “Because when we got in, there he was, admiring himself.”