You can grow bananas when you see these birds - Page 2

MediaHound · 01-14-2008, 02:26 AM

btw those are great shots! They look very interested in you

AnnaJW · 01-14-2008, 03:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Lagniappe

We should all be glad that they're birds and not macaques !
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7055625.stm

Yikes! I'd better be really nice to the monkey on my new tattoo! It looks like the one in that picture. Only mine is smiling....

AnnaJW · 01-14-2008, 03:50 AM

A few weeks ago I saw four birds, which I guess were Conures, in our neighbors tree. I'm just guessing Conures because they looked very much like my Sun Conure.
I usually have my bird feeders filled now; but the Hawk's are hanging around.
I had a hawk at my bird bath one day that my Cockatoo noticed. My Cockatoo puffed himself out to like four times his size! I thought he ws going to nail me until I saw the Hawk.
Birds are very cool. And sooooo smart!!!!!!!!!!!

Mark Hall · 01-14-2008, 06:30 AM

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Originally Posted by island cassie

Nice pictures Mitchell. We have a number of species here but they are very wild and fly high and fast to avoid the trappers - often hear them screaming as they fly overhead! In the Staines area in London there are several thousand parakeets that live alonside the River Thames. They are the descendants of a few that were released about 30 years ago.

Cassie

Cassie, I grew up in Staines and I know the area you mean.They breed on Penton Hook island. They also fly around here in Windsor and we do get the odd ones in the garden. They strip the apples from the trees during the summer and make a hell of a noise gut it is nice to see them. I guess with global warming we will be seeing more tropical birds in our county.

dablo93 · 01-14-2008, 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by SteveW

Looks like I got the name of our UK parrots abit wrong.lol
They're actually called ring-necked parakeets and they're over 5000 birds living in the SE of the UK,how cool is that
I just read up a bit on them on the RSPB website
http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/bird...et/history.asp

Yea steve these birds here are the same like you have there

mm4birds · 01-15-2008, 11:42 PM

The pictured birds are cherry headed or mitered conures which also survive the winter here in new york city. I raise sun conures as a hobby and they are really beautiful. The birds apparently escaped a shipping container at JFK airport and have survived and bred in ny since.

AnnaJW · 01-16-2008, 12:03 AM

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Originally Posted by mm4birds

The pictured birds are cherry headed or mitered conures which also survive the winter here in new york city. I raise sun conures as a hobby and they are really beautiful. The birds apparently escaped a shipping container at JFK airport and have survived and bred in ny since.

I have a Sun and he is awesome! Gorgeous, smart, and so sweet and cute.

I also have a Peach-faced Lovie, Maxi Pi, and Moluccan Too.
I think the four that were here awhile back were probably Cherry Headed Conures. Amazing to me how they survive in the wild around here!

Richard · 01-16-2008, 12:12 AM

I would agree that they are better looking than ravens (most San Diegans call them crows). Do the same damage though. If you get a picture of 12 or more ravens in your yard at the same time, you can get a permit to shoot them on your property. Last I checked, they seemed oblivious to photoshop ...

island cassie · 01-16-2008, 12:22 AM

Yes Mark - lovely to see them. Here in the Dominican Republic we have woodpeckers making a nest in the pergola at the back of the house about 20ft away. No doubt the top will fall off the post in time - but so nice to see them at such close quarters in the meantime - pictures shortly!! Here the parrots and parakeets fly by high and fast to avoid the trappers, and I am always happy to hear them screaming overhead. Go birds - go!
Cassie

AnnaJW · 01-16-2008, 01:24 AM

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Originally Posted by island cassie

Yes Mark - lovely to see them. Here in the Dominican Republic we have woodpeckers making a nest in the pergola at the back of the house about 20ft away. No doubt the top will fall off the post in time - but so nice to see them at such close quarters in the meantime - pictures shortly!! Here the parrots and parakeets fly by high and fast to avoid the trappers, and I am always happy to hear them screaming overhead. Go birds - go!
Cassie

I agree, Cassie. Go birds go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Richard · 01-16-2008, 01:35 AM

I'd rather have mockingbirds and black pheobes.

AnnaJW · 01-16-2008, 02:13 AM

Sadly, I haven't seen a Mockingbird around here in years. We have Black Phobes that nest here every year.
I had a Red-Tailed Hawk swoop down within inches of me today. Beautiful bird! But that means I stop filling my feeders for awhile...
Ravens are my friends. As are crows. Especially since they keep the Hawks away from my bird feeders. I have never had problems with ANY birds bothering my garden areas.........................

chong · 01-16-2008, 02:28 AM

Personally, I love them all. In HI, the chickadees, the turtle doves, miniature turtle doves, and many others, would swoop down on the floor next to dining tables at several of the restaurants and make all kinds of cooing, chirping, and warbling sounds. They make it so relaxing. Though at first we were afraid of getting "bombed". But we noticed that they rarely, if ever, flew over the tables.

On mother's day last year, after shopping at Walmart in Martinez, CA, my wife noticed a "very pretty bird". When she asked what kind it was, I had to look, and saw a yellow and green parakeet. It took flight when I attempted to invite it to perch on my hand.

After some pursuit halfway through the parking lot, I was able to catch it. I went back into the store and bought a cage and feed. This baby must have escaped from its previous owner for some time because when we got home and fed it, he finished that entire 1-ounce container-full of feed. For all the time we were in CA, and subsequently in Vegas, he was singing all the time. The maids at the hotels wanted to adopt him.

AnnaJW · 01-16-2008, 03:31 AM

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Originally Posted by chong

Personally, I love them all. In HI, the chickadees, the turtle doves, miniature turtle doves, and many others, would swoop down on the floor next to dining tables at several of the restaurants and make all kinds of cooing, chirping, and warbling sounds. They make it so relaxing. Though at first we were afraid of getting "bombed". But we noticed that they rarely, if ever, flew over the tables.

On mother's day last year, after shopping at Walmart in Martinez, CA, my wife noticed a "very pretty bird". When she asked what kind it was, I had to look, and saw a yellow and green parakeet. It took flight when I attempted to invite it to perch on my hand.

After some pursuit halfway through the parking lot, I was able to catch it. I went back into the store and bought a cage and feed. This baby must have escaped from its previous owner for some time because when we got home and fed it, he finished that entire 1-ounce container-full of feed. For all the time we were in CA, and subsequently in Vegas, he was singing all the time. The maids at the hotels wanted to adopt him.

I love them all. too!!! :

I'm so glad you helped that baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

momoese · 11-24-2011, 12:51 AM

Since my Bamboo and bananas have grown I now have a family of finches, a couple black phoebes, several humming birds, crows, sparrows, hawks, pigeons, doves, and the green parrots who fly above!

trebor · 11-24-2011, 06:44 AM

We have wild Quakers here, They are a bunch of noisy critters! In a shopping center about a mile south on my house they sit in the trees planted around the center. I swear its like a tourist attraction

I have seen people show up with cages and sit them on the ground hoping one of the birds will fly in the cage! The city has put out bird seed with a tranquilizer in it to try to remove them. Its been pretty successful because now its kinda rare to see them .. Why on earth anyone would want to get rid of them is beyond me !

momoese · 11-24-2011, 10:47 AM

Here they are! It sounds like they are a problem for the power company, but people love them.

Parrots in the City, AFA 2005 Video - Part II - YouTube

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