Seen loads in London but just saw my first one in Rumney. I'd heard that they were moving further west but didn't expect to see one so soon. Noisy blighters mind and such a giveaway if you hear one.
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Seen loads in London but just saw my first one in Rumney. I'd heard that they were moving further west but didn't expect to see one so soon. Noisy blighters mind and such a giveaway if you hear one.
There are loads of them around where I live in Devon.
Whereabouts is that, neighbour?Originally Posted by Vindec
Near Exeter.
Exeter, music of Jah people.
Not far from me then.
Not far. We've exchanged messages before about travelling to matches.
With parakeets?
I could be tempted.
Apparently, you're a bit of a 'Pretty Boy'
Gottle of gear, gottle of gear....
Apparently, these parrots were brought over by some rich bloke hundreds of years ago. They escaped (obviously) and adapted to the climate. Very prevalent in Kent. Interesting.
Indeed they are. My son lives in Greenford and they're flying around his house most of the day. I think they roost in Perivale Park, which is just around the corner from him.There are loads of myths as to how they came to being released, including one involving Jimmy Hendrix releasing a load. I have family in Surrey and the actual reason is that in the great storms of 1987 a roof blew off a large local aviary and a load of them escaped. My sister regularly has six or more of them on her bird feeders. They are noisy bastards though
As something of an ornithologist, I was amazed to see the Ring Necked Parakeet included in a book of bird visitors to British Gardens that was published in the nineties. I can remember looking into how they arrived in the country at the time and my findings matched what the RSPB website says today - it's impossible to pin down exactly how it happened, but it seems to have taken place sometime in the seventies.
I notice that the RSPB's page on the bird says that they are still limited to the south east of England and that "Birds are regularly reported elsewhere in Britain, and are likely to be local escapees.".
https://www.rspb.org.uk/our-work/pol...ked-parakeets/
https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wi...cked-parakeet/
When I visited Australia I suddenly saw a flock of parrots flying overhead and my initial split-second thought was that they must have escaped from somewhere...
That's right.
Some Aussies took them home from Britain and they afapted to the warm climate and escaped...
There are many different types of parrots in OZ.
I visited Barcelona a couple of years ago, and noticed large flocks of parakeets around the city. I thought that was odd at the time, until I saw similar groups of birds in London. Now it seems they're spreading across the country. I blame climate change. There will be crocodiles in the Taff soon...
Its a war in Barcelona, 7 different types of the noisy f***kers, in some places where they cause damage the city has introduced Falcon to combat them.
When I went to Australia a few years ago, I was walking along one of the main thoroughfares in Sydney when quite a few Sulphur Crested Cockatoos flew over my head. Made a refreshing change from the pigeons and marauding gulls you see in Queen Street.
Isn't there some urban legend about them having escaped from Marc Bolan's house?
I ****ing hope so. That's quality.
Nah not true
Not Bolan, Marianne what’s her name... FACT. Played golf at Sale recently and there was loads of the feckers. Near Manchester.
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