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Blushingsnail
Joined 21-12-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, 21 September, 2006 - 01:43 pm: | |
I saw 7 parakeets flying around Perry Vale yesterday evening. Don't know if they were just passing through or whether they've settled in the area. They're very common in some parts of London, so perhaps they're spreading here.
Link to a BBC story about them here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/sevenwonders/london/p arakeets/ |
Hilltopgeneral
Joined 24-03-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, 21 September, 2006 - 01:50 pm: | |
Saw some in the garden last year. |
Loneranger
Joined 29-10-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, 21 September, 2006 - 02:18 pm: | |
There have been a significant number in the Hither Green area for some time.
Some years ago a heron used to perch on the rooftops in Sunderland Road. |
Andy
Joined 23-02-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, 21 September, 2006 - 02:33 pm: | |
I thought I saw a dodo in Catford. Mind you, I had been drinking. |
Jbird
Joined 13-02-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, 21 September, 2006 - 04:08 pm: | |
Best thread title ever. |
Webmaster
Joined 01-01-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, 21 September, 2006 - 04:26 pm: | |
Also reported here a couple of years ago - scroll down to June 2004 for thread 'Parakeets over FH?' |
Loneranger
Joined 29-10-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, 21 September, 2006 - 04:52 pm: | |
I've seen a Kestrel hovering over Catford and did I ever tell you about the man who used to walk a ferret on a lead? |
Sherwood
Joined 30-03-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, 21 September, 2006 - 04:55 pm: | |
A colleague tells me they are very common in Bromley. |
Theotherbrian
Joined 28-03-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, 21 September, 2006 - 06:11 pm: | |
They are common here. They seem to commute from Peckham Rye Park to the railway cutting behind Devonshire Road. Last winter there were four regulars on the peanut feeder in my garden . I saw one feeding on a flowering cherry in Dunoon Road one morning in June when on my way down to the station. Oh yes, you can hear them squawking every morning and evening. They are indeed firmly resident in the area. |
Baggydave
Joined 19-05-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, 21 September, 2006 - 10:21 pm: | |
Loads in Kelsea Park but aint seen them in UDB for a few months, perhaps the ELL extension has put them off.
Also loads of herons on Kelsea park - am I spelling this right? but the trailer trash puts me off.
New thread is what happened to squaking starlings, and swallows??
And Andy where were you?? Like the reference to afternoon drinking though.
PS thinking of sarf London, seemed to have missed Bowie on TV |
Deanos
Joined 01-12-2005
| | Posted on Friday, 22 September, 2006 - 09:00 am: | |
I live on the top of the hill on Devonshire road and at times our trees are full of them. |
