Do parakeets live wild in UK ?

[LIZS]

Unusual bird on our feeder just now. Large green with yellow head, red beak, long tail. Think it is a ring necked parakeet according ot dc's book. Do they normally live wild ?

loads in one tree here in herts, they're a pita really noisy, though i haven't seen them for a few months, maybe they're coming back from where they flew off it

Loads of parakeets around here too.

Would love to see a chinchilla in the garden.

this is interesting

[chinchilla envy]

We have them. I think they must breed quite quickly, 18 months ago we only had a couple fly past occassionally but now there are lots, every day. I'm in North Kent.

What, flying chinchillas?

Billions of the little feckers in Sidcup and surrounds
at the vineyard stripping
Don't you also have wild boar in Kent Fio, not to mention Muntjac deer?

loads in bromley/beckenham.

There are shitloads round Croydon as well.

we have them in a local park in thanet, kent. hundreds of the bloody things, noisy buggers!

Lots in our park, Carshalton, I LOVE them, they are beautiful.

Sounds like you need the Sparrowhawk which just tried to kill one of my mummy blackbirds . Luckily the Sparrowhawk went away empty handed / clawed

liz yes, they do and they are lovely, but heavens they are noisy !! There is a huge colony nr margate apparently and i have seen them in greenwich park

they are so commonplace now that they're included in my Collins handbook of British birds. I've lived in Kingston for 13 years now and they've gone from on ocassional siting in Bushy Park to totally everyday sighting everywhere - Esher, Surbiton, Walton, Kingston

ahem that'll be sighting. the funny thing is that I used to jump up and down excitedly and say to dds how amazing it was. but to them it's no more strange than seeing a magpie.

there are wallabies in Derbyshire.