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Post by sweetpea on Apr 18, 2021 10:10:29 GMT
I 'Googled' sweetpea & came up with a 'yellow mutation of a red crowned parakeet' which looks exactly like the 2 pics. you've posted, in the wild they're usually green with a red crown & are native to New Zealand & also known as 'Kakariki' the Maori name for them, so this must be a specially bred colour variant pet one. Maybe it's managing to survive as the climate where you live isn't too different from New Zealand? Hope someone catches it before it gets eaten! My daughter also did that and came up with that name. I found a similar name so I guess that is what it is. ps Just saw it down the end of the garden and stood talking to it for a few minutes. Seems unafraid of humans and survived the cold nights too.
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Post by sweetpea on Apr 20, 2021 17:35:27 GMT
Today it was flying around our garden and Maureen was within actual touching distance and trying to coax it down with some seeds it flew down to the ground and one of the cats shot out from behind a shrub and caught it but it got away minus three feathers. A narrow escape indeed so I hope it is ok.
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Post by SueA on Apr 22, 2021 7:59:03 GMT
Maybe you'd better not try to feed it sweetpea unless the cats are all inside under lock & key!  We've had a couple of longtail tits visiting a lot recently & yesterday the garden was full of all the tiny locals, gangs of sparrows, great tits, longtails, bluetits, robin, dunnocks etc. & they were all ripping bits of the plants or picking off grubs & insects like they were in a bird supermarket!   |
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Post by grindle on Apr 23, 2021 4:04:22 GMT
great photo, I've seen a couple in the garden just lately. A young collard dove was sitting on the seed feeder and seemed quite unruffled when I appeared and carried on sunbathing |
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Post by SueA on May 12, 2021 7:51:16 GMT
At least one little baby robin has survived here - pottering about the garden in the last couple of days.  |
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Post by grindle on May 13, 2021 3:36:48 GMT
good to see  |
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Post by SueA on May 27, 2021 8:02:47 GMT
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Post by grindle on May 28, 2021 4:01:43 GMT
great photos SueA lovely to see the young around now, quite noisy too |
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Post by SueA on May 28, 2021 7:50:43 GMT
It's like being in the middle of a riot here with all the baby starlings shouting grindle! Every so often one of them will try to fly through the patio doors & bang against the glass but they fly off O.K., I have been pulling the blinds across some of the time to try to stop them with just little gaps in between the slats but they still fly at it. Couple of pics. of them - ignore the scruffy grass, I've been doing 'no mow May' but have just ended up with tufty patches of grass & mud & a few dandelions, buttercups & daisies dotted about.   |
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Post by SueA on Jul 24, 2021 7:42:44 GMT
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Post by grindle on Jul 26, 2021 4:02:00 GMT
great photos SueA I haven't seem much of any young birds, just blackbirds, we have a new young cat that is causing havoc in the garden chasing everything that moves so they're tending to keep out of the way  |
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Post by SueA on Jul 26, 2021 7:22:49 GMT
That's always a worry here as well as a few of the local cats visit our garden, they usually run away if you tap on the window but you have to spot them first! There is a very sweet little grey cat coming at the moment but she has a collar with a bell on so hopefully the birds can hear her creeping through the bushes, there was an even younger baby robin here a few days ago who seems to have disappeared so I'm worried that one may have been caught by a cat or the sparrowhawk.  |
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Post by grindle on Jul 27, 2021 5:03:59 GMT
I must admit I used the hose, not enough to wet him, just by the side of him, but I didn't see him yesterday, I've got a family of young blackbirds that are now fledged and coming down, would hate to see anything happen to them
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Post by SueA on Aug 17, 2021 7:49:13 GMT
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Post by SueA on Aug 17, 2021 7:53:01 GMT
We had an unusual visitor in our garden yesterday as well, I know they're fairly common but we haven't ever had a song thrush in the garden here even though we've seen them in the area. It was quite nervous though & kept popping out of the bushes to look for food & then diving back in whenever the starlings or pigeons descended!  |
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