A long way from sunny climbs

[zakelwe]

Andy

[Jasandjules]

Nice shot.

As this is PH, do you mean climes.............

[zakelwe]

Jasandjules said:

Nice shot.

As this is PH, do you mean climes.............

Yes, mind you I don't know how he got to the top of that tree!



Andy

[zakelwe]

Jasandjules said:

Nice shot.

As this is PH, do you mean climes.............

Yes, but to be honest I don't know how he got to the top of that tree

Andy

[OzzyR1]

Looks like an Indian ring-necked parakeet.

There are huge flocks of them living wild in the south - about 10,000 around the Barnes area alone iirc.

[m0ssy]

Nice photo....

you try having 200+ of those bloody things in the tree in your back garden.... all i get is noise and st everywhere...

I used to have a variety of birds including Robins, Sparrows, Tits, Starlings and a big family of magpies... now all i get is these.

I'm an animal lover however am being driven to insanity by the pesky bloody things

[central]

A 'cat. c' species on the British List.
http://www.bou.org.uk/reccats.html

http://10000birds.com/ring-necked-parakeets-in-the...

[Jasandjules]

OzzyR1 said:

Looks like an Indian ring-necked parakeet.

There are huge flocks of them living wild in the south - about 10,000 around the Barnes area alone iirc.

Well you live and learn.

[soad]

Looks like a (small) parrot to me.

[Toyless]

Yep, we have a small flock around work,by christ are they noisy.

[zakelwe]

Thanks for pointing it was a ring necked parakeet. Interesting that another great success story is the collared dove! If only the dodo had worn a studded collar it would have been ok from all those pesky discoverers and adventurers.

We had two but I think one froze to death or got eaten as now we have only one.

Finally got a good photo of the chappy.



Been putting down a lot of food,

mixed sunflower seeds
mealworms
peanut cakes
bread
currents/sultanas/raisins

and had a lot of birds this winter.

Andy

Edited by zakelwe on Monday 27th December 14:23