Parakeets

AFKABartram

Currently have 15-20 of them in the tree outside my window.

Cracking bird

ShootersHillGuru

Great innit. Here at Shooters Hill we have a flock of about that size too. Lovely to see.

buckshee

ex missus is at the bottom end of oxleas and there are always loads in her back garden

Off_it

[cite]Posted By: AFKABartram[/cite]
Cracking bird

is the missus out

LoOkOuT

[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

get the odd parrot here in Barnehurst and also a small hawk of some description, loves sparrows it does.

Goonerhater

They are in the garden most days. Great fun to watch but very noisey at times.

PeakieRocket

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

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

they've buggered off today, that's for sure !!

Valley_floyd_red

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!"

Glass half empty

Got an apple tree at the end of the garden and get around 10 of them on most mornings tucking in

guinnessaddick

Had a robin in the garden today. Could be a good omen.

T_C_E

[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

[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

The first colony was at the Glade in Sidcup when I was a teenager.....all escapees, great to see them adapt so well.

guinnessaddick

[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

lol :-)...just over a week before I escape

ct_addick

Tropical Parakeets in sunny London who would have thought....although my parents have a palm tree outside their house....

pickwick

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

About 20 of them are circling my house again. Making a right racket, love it

MCS

[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

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

[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

lol nice try off it, couldnt believe my luck that no one else wise cracked afka's arse for that 'tennis jokes warrented' remark!