A quiet Stockport village has hatched a plan to expel a group of rowdy young males causing havoc in their pursuit of the opposite sex.

But this strutting Bramhall mob isn’t your typical bunch of testosterone teens - it’s a pride of wild peacocks in mating season!

In an attempt to find the amorous avians a more suitable home a shed has been erected on the site of Bramhall Scout Hut, on Linney Road, where food is put down regularly to lure them in.

It’s hoped the birds will begin to see the shed as a safe feeding ground.

Once they are all inside the shed the shutters can be put up and the birds transported to a more appropriate location.

Chester Cathedral, Congleton Garden Centre and a breeder in Ormskirk are all potential destinations.

A working group, set up by Councillor Linda Holt, has been taking advice from the RSPCA on how to resolve the issue in a compassionate way.

Coun Holt said: “It’s been a really difficult problem to solve, as the RSPCA can only do something if the birds are in danger of injured.

“If they are causing a nuisance the council could just come in and despatch them.

“But the poor birds, it’s not their fault, they’re in the wrong environment.

“We are trying to get the best solution so the birds are not harmed but moved to a location where they’re not causing damage or disruption to residents.”

Peacocks were first spotted in Bramhall around two years ago when it’s believed they were released by a breeder who could no longer look after them properly.

But residents soon began to see them as a nuisance as groups went on the rampage scratching cars, squawking loudly and eating garden plants.

The birds’ activity is at its height during the mating season between March and October.

Coun Holt added: “A chap from Stockport Homes erected a shed for them and one of the peacocks sat there watching him and even shared his sandwich with him.

“But a bit later on it actually jumped on his back. Young males in the mating season become aggressive and when he bent down in a crouched position he thought it was another bird.”

Sadly, some of the birds seem to have been killed - probably by natural predators - but at least three peacocks and one white peahen (a female) remain at large in the village.