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Pesky peacocks and the hungry tigress

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Early in the afternoon we saw the tigress disappear into a tall clump of grass lining the lake’s edge. When she didn’t re-emerge even after 20 minutes, we deduced that, she is planning to hunt. The deers come to the bank of the lake to drink water in the late afternoon and it would present a perfect opportunity for the tigress to stalk and hunt. Excited, with the prospect of watching the hunt from close, we selected a spot diagonally opposite to the patch of grass and started a vigil . Intermittently, we could spot her in the grass, when she would raise her head to check the movement of the deers. After a wait of nearly 1.5 hrs, with the dusk approaching, appeared the pesky peacocks. One of them soon spotted the tigress and immediately started a alarm call, initially in a low volume which kept climbing higher and higher with the other two joining in a chorus, alerting the deers nearby. With her cover blown and prospect of a meal disappearing, eventually the tigress came out of hiding,