[Misc] Parakeets in the Park

[pearl]

Not Preston Park sadly.

I was in London yesterday and walking back to Victoria I stopped by St James's Park.
Some old blokes were feeding monkey nuts to the squirrels. I heard the familiar squeak of Parakeets.
About 6 were in the trees and 2 or 3 swooped down to take some nuts. One sat on the railings to eat, but a big fat pigeon flew down and started pushing the parakeet about. I thought 'Ooooh nooooo, poor little thing' just as it viciously sank its parrot beak into the pigeon's throat .... no wonder they've survived here!

 

[Monkey Man]

I'd like them to come to Sussex but I don't know what kind of threat that would pose to indigenous bird species.

I'm also waiting for the time when red kites properly colonise my neck of the woods. Fantastic birds.

 

[dazzer6666]

Literally thousands of them in SW London........and they are spreading a bit, I saw on near Canary Wharf last week. My relatives in Hinchley Wood get them on their garden bird feeders all the time.

 

[Easy 10]

I do love a cockatoo.

 

[GT49er]

I'd like them to come to Sussex but I don't know what kind of threat that would pose to indigenous bird species.

If they can sink their parrot beaks into seagulls' throats they'd be very welcome in Gloucester! (I like seagulls at the seaside but inland they're just sky rats).

 

[Wardy's twin]

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[osgood]

There used to be a flock in crawley , are they still there ?

 

[AmexRuislip]

I'd like them to come to Sussex but I don't know what kind of threat that would pose to indigenous bird species.

I'm also waiting for the time when red kites properly colonise my neck of the woods. Fantastic birds.

They idea may sound quite exotic to have them tweeting and flying about Sussex.
But you don't really want them IMO
There's loads round here squawking, sh!tting, eating the food of our natural birds and generally decimating the greens on our allotment (unless you have netting up).
You're welcome to have the wilder beast that roam across Middlesex

 

[Nobby]

I'd like them to come to Sussex but I don't know what kind of threat that would pose to indigenous bird species.

I'm also waiting for the time when red kites properly colonise my neck of the woods. Fantastic birds.

Loads of Red Kites up here. Spectacular to watch


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[Westdene Seagull]

I'm pretty sure there used to be some parakeets in the woods off Ditchling Road when I was young ..... think the storm of1987 saw them leave.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

If they can sink their parrot beaks into seagulls' throats they'd be very welcome in Gloucester! (I like seagulls at the seaside but inland they're just sky rats).

We invaded their territory. Btw there is no such thing as a seagull. Herring gulls, black headed gulls, less black backed gull, greater black backed gull etc etc.

 

[BrightonCottager]

Not Preston Park sadly.

I thought I had heard them in Preston Park. Deffo seen buzzards over PP.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Used to be parakeets in the woods up by Hollingbury park.

 

[Jack Straw]

https://londonist.com/london/great-outdoors/london-s-parakeets-everything-you-need-to-know

 

[albionite]

There used to be a flock in crawley , are they still there ?

Still in Crawley and heard you can see them in Horsham. No idea if you can find them further south. Redhill and up they are pretty common.

 

[Daddies_Sauce]

Used to be parakeets in the woods up by Hollingbury park.

Think they got taken by the sparrow hawks.

 

[jakarta]

Blimey - just posted about them on the Red Kite thread, they are all over Staines, just like Ali G...

 

[GT49er]

We invaded their territory. Btw there is no such thing as a seagull. Herring gulls, black headed gulls, less black backed gull, greater black backed gull etc etc.

No such thing as specifically a seagull it is true, but a widely used and commonly accepted collective noun for a group of birds including herring gulls, common gulls, black headed gulls, etc. The common factor is 'sea', as they are all birds whose natural habitat is the seaside. We may be invading their territory by building towns like Brighton on the coast, and going paddling in the sea and climbing cliffs - but inland they are invading my territory, thank you very much, and they are a f**ing nuisance!

 

[Creaky]

They idea may sound quite exotic to have them tweeting and flying about Sussex.
But you don't really want them IMO
There's loads round here squawking, sh!tting, eating the food of our natural birds and generally decimating the greens on our allotment (unless you have netting up).
You're welcome to have the wilder beast that roam across Middlesex

For the last four or five years we’ve given up any hope of getting anything from our plum and cherry trees. Damn things arrive as a flock of about a hundred birds and just strip them bare.

Go South please - we don’t want them

 

[wehatepalace]

I believe they are now classed as pest and therefore on General License the same as pigeons and crows.