Ring-necked Parakeets in Southampton Park, enjoying Beech nuts at breakfast time this morning.
Parakeets.
Continued Reflections from my World.
days out with my camera.- the blogs continue.
Ring-necked Parakeets in Southampton Park, enjoying Beech nuts at breakfast time this morning.
I assume these were somebodies pets and they escaped and multiplied?
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Think you are correct – there is said to be as many as 32,000 birds in the UK with 12000 breeding pairs ! Some of the folk law on where they came from.
Jimi Hendrix released a pair of parakeets from his flat in Brook Street, London, while on an LSD trip back in the 1960s
The parakeets escaped from the set of The African Queen while it was being filmed at Shepperton Studios
The birds escaped from aviaries destroyed during the Great Storm of 1987 (this one is easily rebuffed – ring-necked parakeets were already spreading in London back in the 1970s.
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I suspect they are everywhere on the globe?
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Their color is so refreshing and pretty!
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