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Parakeets

AFKABartram
AFKABartram Posts: 58,119
edited April 2008 in Not Sports Related
Currently have 15-20 of them in the tree outside my window.

Cracking bird

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  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,673
    Great innit. Here at Shooters Hill we have a flock of about that size too. Lovely to see.
  • buckshee
    buckshee Posts: 7,872
    ex missus is at the bottom end of oxleas and there are always loads in her back garden
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,999
    [cite]Posted By: AFKABartram[/cite]
    Cracking bird

    is the missus out
  • LoOkOuT
    LoOkOuT Posts: 10,924
    [cite]Posted By: buckshee[/cite]ex missus is at the bottom end of oxleas...

    Jezus, for a second there I thought you meant she was buried in the woods!
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,929
    get the odd parrot here in Barnehurst and also a small hawk of some description, loves sparrows it does.
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    They are in the garden most days. Great fun to watch but very noisey at times.
  • PeakieRocket
    PeakieRocket Posts: 2,428
    I get them in the tree by my flat every morning - thankfully landlord has put double glazing in otherwise I was going to get myself a pellet gun. They look great but novelty wears off after they've woke you up for the 20th day in a row
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    if you shoot them do you reckon they will taste like pigeon AFKA catch us a few and i will put them in a pie
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 58,119
    they've buggered off today, that's for sure !!
  • Valley_floyd_red
    Valley_floyd_red Posts: 3,194
    I remember a couple of years ago when they first started showing up, my family thought I was going mad. I would hear them in parents garden and call for my dad, "Quick! Look! Parrots" I would say, much to the bemusement of my increasingly concerned father.

    When some months later we were on our way to the Valley we took a short cut through Charlton park when he finally saw the Parrots, "Blimey", he said, "That's a relief, I thought you were going mental!"

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  • Glass half empty
    Glass half empty Posts: 2,084
    Got an apple tree at the end of the garden and get around 10 of them on most mornings tucking in
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 29,045
    Had a robin in the garden today. Could be a good omen.
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,448
    [quote][cite]Posted By: guinnessaddick[/cite]Had a robin in the garden today. Could be a good omen.[/quote]

    Was it a Red Red Robin?
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 29,045
    [cite]Posted By: T.C.E[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: guinnessaddick[/cite]Had a robin in the garden today. Could be a good omen.

    Was it a Red Red Robin?


    Yeh, Cheer me up.
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    The first colony was at the Glade in Sidcup when I was a teenager.....all escapees, great to see them adapt so well.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 29,045
    [cite]Posted By: TelinOz[/cite]The first colony was at the Glade in Sidcup when I was a teenager.....all escapees, great to see them adapt so well.

    Sounds like oz.
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    lol :-)...just over a week before I escape
  • ct_addick
    ct_addick Posts: 4,380
    Tropical Parakeets in sunny London who would have thought....although my parents have a palm tree outside their house....
  • pickwick
    pickwick Posts: 1,649
    First saw them in Oxleas Wood, there is a colony in Greenwich Park now as well. Vfr my parents had a similar reaction to talking about parrots in the woods.
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 58,119
    About 20 of them are circling my house again. Making a right racket, love it

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  • MCS
    MCS Posts: 8,404
    [cite]Posted By: AFKABartram[/cite]About 20 of them are circling my house again. Making a right racket, love it

    what they playin air tennis afka?
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    someone catch one i will pluck it and put it in a pie beats paying 80 quid for one out of the petshop to taste
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,999
    [quote][cite]Posted By: MCS[/cite][quote][cite]Posted By: AFKABartram[/cite]About 20 of them are circling my house again. Making a right racket, love it[/quote]

    what they playin air tennis afka?[/quote]

    Ha ha - you got there before me. I was gonna say he should ask them to make him a cricket bat when they'd done with the racket - then maybe some platform shoes!
  • MCS
    MCS Posts: 8,404
    lol nice try off it, couldnt believe my luck that no one else wise cracked afka's arse for that 'tennis jokes warrented' remark!

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