New birds visiting

Getting these calling in the street regular now, it's taken over a year to get them out of the high trees around here but they're getting more confident now. Just hope the hawk leaves them alone.

what are they colin ? they look nice birds...

Some type of parrot or parakeet David, nobody believed me when I first saw them 18 months ago. There was 3 then but only this pair now. They're very timid and up and away if you get too close.

I like them, I wonder how they came to be around, could it be someone has released them into the wild...?

David I think they've got to have either escaped or been released a good while ago, maybe it was their YB when I first saw them as a group of 3?
They come shrieking over our house just before dusk but this is the first time they've come and fed so close mid-afternoon. They know what a bird table is so I think they're feeding off a table elsewhere. Just hope they get left alone, I'll think about putting a nest box up in the higher trees back of us presuming they nest in holes or boxes?
Just glad I got a photo, only me and my wife have seen them before, don't think the neighbours believed us!

they are lovely colin, I hope they survive and are safe from predators .....maybe they will breed hopefully.

Not up much on parakeets, I used to breed finches, but they maybe only maybe mind, plum headed parakeets

We have ring neck parakeet's flying around art work first saw them last Summer and through out the winter eating the last of the apples on the tree's usually two or three together but a mate who lives near by said he saw 12/13 in a group early one Sunday morning

we`ve squirrels, foxes and hedgehogs but none of these, I`d love a few of them round my house.....

you would not david if you heard them screeching early morning

a load escaped from a bird sanctuary near Windsor a couple of year ago theirs still loads hanging about the area ...hawk bait though

edgie wrote:

you would not david if you heard them screeching early morning

I never see early mornings edgie...

oldstrain wrote:

a load escaped from a bird sanctuary near Windsor a couple of year ago theirs still loads hanging about the area ...hawk bait though

its a shame if they do Darren, lovely birds like that...

David wrote:

edgie wrote:

you would not david if you heard them screeching early morning

I never see early mornings edgie...

I have noticed david

especially with this extra hour............

lazy git