Parakeets in the NW

[HildegardNightingale]

Just spotted a Parakeet on my dog walk in NW England. It’s freezing!

Where? I can't see it in your photos.

Whereabouts in Nw are you? I feel like I recognise the place.

Williamson park?

There's no parakeet on that second photo

Sorry we tried to get a photo of the parakeet but he was too fast. Photo is to show how cold it is. We are in Lancashire.

Near a canal.

Yes we have a couple here on the Fylde coast too

Apparently 5 escaped from London zoo about 25/30 years ago and have bred and spread across the NW, this is what my dad has always told me but not sure where he got this info from!

Is there a cycle way that runs down there?

They apparently originate from the Himalayas so English weather is fine for them.

@Plonque -mcycle route yes.

We have a local flock (South .London/Surrey). They are SO noisy!

And I was reading yesterday those bloody birds are now in and around Manchester.

The RSPB doesn't want them culled even though they have been culled in one of London's Royal Parks.

They are noisy destructive pests and are displacing British birds so should be culled. Anyone who lives in an area infested with them can tell you that.

The Wiki entry has them on London for Winter though. Yours must be hardier than the soft southerner parakeets 😂

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_parakeets_in_Great_Britain

There's a free in didsbury and some in cheadle too.

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There is parakeets in our town hall park. We're in the NW too

I’m in the Midlands and someone posted pictures of some locally over the weekend. I knew that there were a number of them down south but hadn’t heard of them being up here before but it might explain what the yellow-green birds were that I’ve seen a few times in the trees when walking the dog.

Looking at the pics again, I don't think it's where I thought it was.
I meant pushbikes

Are these the little green ones?
There's been an invasion into Europe over the last couple of years.

@SoupDragon

We have a local flock (South .London/Surrey). They are SO noisy!

Second this!

We have at least 3 dozen, they're very chatty (NE England coast) and they live between 2 local parks and DC school - they're all within a mile of each other.

I had to stop the car the first time I saw them - couldn't believe my eyes (they seem to like dusk so the road was empty - I didn't just slam my brakes during rush hour )

There’s a family of them in Stanley Park in Blackpool.

www.newscientist.com/article/mg24532770-600-little-green-invaders-how-parakeets-conquered-the-world/

I absolutely love them.

I'm in W London so we've had big flocks of them for years, and although I know they're noisy and invasive they're also so pretty!

Them soft southern keets got nowt on the northern ones.

Not even big coat weather yet