Parakeets are really annoying

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They look pretty, but I don't find their sound very pleasant. They're practically everywhere now.

I saw them when I was in London and thought it was great. I’m hoping they spread north! Maybe I should stop hoping.

I've seen so many people who have them in their garden saying they are a pest and annoying but I can't help wishing to see some.
We don't have them in Yorkshire.

They have spread North, we've got them in Leeds.

Makes a change from magpies, now they make a hell of a racket

I’m hoping they spread North too 😀

I love the sound and they're so interesting to watch when they're calling to one another.

And yes to the Magpies making a racket!

They are pretty but they are a pest as they outcompete the smaller birds. They roost in huge numbers in a park on my journey home and it is quite a sight to see them at dusk flying in their hundreds up the road to this park.

We had loads in our garden in the summer and although lovely to look at they are really noisy!

I’ve seen rooks or maybe Ravens catch them mid flight in the air as they leave their roosting spot in the morning so maybe our larger predatory birds are learning to predate them which might help control numbers a little

They are more feathers than meat.

How can they possibly compete with pheasants, duck and drones.

I wish we had them but I've never seen them in the UK.

@sashagabadon

I’ve seen rooks or maybe Ravens catch them mid flight in the air as they leave their roosting spot in the morning so maybe our larger predatory birds are learning to predate them which might help control numbers a little

Good.

They make a bloody racket when flying to roost and they've stripped a few of my friends cherry trees bare.

We have hundreds of them in Manchester. I like them, but their squeaky sound is very unnatural next to our native birds.

@sashagabadon

Rooks look like crows but there is a difference over and above the white beaks. Rooks like to stab into the ground especially arable farmland for beetles, grubs and worms. Crows like carrion and will rarely kill, but it is not unknown. Parakeets' main enemies will be falcons but I think they will eventually be culled by humans.Tthat is not a bad thing though. They should not be here (in the UK) and that continues a wider discussion that needs to be had on our encroachment on wildlife generally both here and overseas.

They are the large black birds that live in groups, corvids of some sort but I couldn’t tell you exactly what. I watch them every morning on way to work at dawnish so between 7am and 7.15am at the moment. There are hundreds of parakeets and they start making loads and loads of noise and then a group of them fly off together and some of the black birds chase them and try and split the group. They don’t catch them very often but I have seen it once.
I keep thinking I need to tell Chris packham as it does seem unusual behaviour and he might find it interesting 😁

Crows I think. They love to destabilise the Buzzards round here. The buzzards get seriously fucked off.

Sparrowharks eat twice a day. When the sparrowhawk first comes, usually in early full light, it gets what it wants. It is so quick then. In the late afternoon, when it feeds to digest before bed, it is bombarded by swallows that drive it away. That is I believe the prowess of swallows after the midday sun. It changes their temperature and their temperament. They are invincible then.

Never seen a flock of parakeets attacked, but have watched them fly in formation past my office window before, down the street, between the high stone blocks like a perched river valley in Paraguay.

Where do you live by the way? @sashagabadon

I have 4, they drive me insane!

They're noisy buggers but quite pretty.

It’s scrubb land in West London . They roost in the trees there