For the last couple of days we've had a beautiful parrot in the trees around us - he/she is VERY vocal and may have possibly escaped from somewhere. He is mainly green with a yellow head and red splodges either side of the head area and yellow underneath his wings and on part of his undercarriage. He's quite a big bird and seems reasonably tame, as we watched one of our neighbours trying to tempt him down from a tree yesterday, and he was able to get him to feed from a large container but unfortunately several attempts at catching him proved futile if entertaining!
Vanessa Smith ● 5193d34 Comments
We had him flying around our garden on Sunday evening and as Vanessa says he is very loud indeedWe also tried tempting him down from our roof but had no luck but hope he finds his way home
Paul Fisher ● 5193d
Trouble with being a Monty Python fan is that you see parrots everywhere ..... we had a very small finch once, almost half a bird, so we called him Eric.
Sarah Felstead ● 5193d
Paul, would you agree that this is not the normal sort of parrakeet we see flying around here in flocks? Somebody on W4 - where I also asked if anyone was missing their pet, thinks it maybe. The noise is so different and the colouring is more yellow with sort of red splodges either side of his head from what we could see. As these tend to be quite valuable seems reasonable to think this might be an escapee.
Vanessa Smith ● 5193d
If it's a blue one he may have escaped from the W4 forum.
Phil Andrews ● 5193d
Oh, crumbs, I see, you are being serious. You do have to be careful when you tell people you can see a parrot at the bottom of your garden as I found when we moved here and there were the parakeets at the bottom of ours. Last year the parakeets devoured all the apples on one of our trees and they pinch the nesting sites for our native birds.
maybe it's on the run, escaped from the pet shop after being found with its claws in the trill
Ken Collins ● 5193d
I saw a couple of guys trying to coax a parrot out of a tree in Walnut Tree Road (behind McDonalds) a few days ago?
Reg Ghosh ● 5193d
Let's hope it's caught before it destroys the living environment for the indigenous birds in your garden.
Keith Iddon ● 5193d
Looks like Polly has moved on. You will soon know if he pitches up near you - he's a very early riser!!
Vanessa Smith ● 5192d
It's a male and you've named it Polly?
Phil Andrews ● 5192d
I have no idea of the parrot's gender - and I wouldn't know how to tell anyway even if I got near enough. But as most parrots are generally referred to as Polly seemed a reasonable enough moniker.
Vanessa Smith ● 5191d
If it talks a lot Vanessa it's a female.
Keith Iddon ● 5191d
Watch it - mate!It is my experience that when 'im indoors is out in the front garden supposedly cutting grass or whatever, a casual glance out of the window will show that there he is rabbiting to passing neighbours. When asked when he comes in what the conversation consisted of the answer is almost inevitably 'nothing'. So my point is, not only can men - and they do - bunny for England, they are also clearly rubbish at gossip, (well that is except for one of my brothers in law).
Perhaps he's complaining to anyone who will listen that his wife calls him Polly.
Phil Andrews ● 5191d
Like this?http://www.perkyparrots.com/yellowcrowned.cfm
Philippa Bond ● 5191d
Surveys have shown that women on average use 11,000+ words a day and men 2,500.I rest my case...:-)Every girlfriend or missus that I have ever been with has been able to spend an hour on the phone almost without stopping for breath....and then they are going to meet the person they are speaking to the next day...what do they find to talk about?
Do you really want to know,,,,,'cos,,, ?? :)
God no - he'd be flattered if that was all I called him!
just see 4 green parrot's in the tree's in my back garden in brentford
Diane Newman ● 5191d
There are lots now living in the wild in this country... but this one appeared to be tame and not like the others.There are an amazing number of parrots go missing but the most reported ones appear to be African Greys. I didn't realise so many people kept them.
Philippa Bond ● 5190d
Apart from the National Register kept for lost and found parrots there is this interesting website.http://www.parrotalert.com/search-location.php
The parrot has returned very noisy! Frightens the hell out of pigeons.
Vanessa Smith ● 5182d
Yes Vanessa the parrot's are very noisy. The Greenone's are the noisy?
Diane Newman ● 5181d
Vanessa, I haven't had time to read through the whole of this thread, but I wonder if anyone who has seen the parrot has contacted the RSPB for advice? It is obviously lost and may be very frightened (which could explain its noisiness). I've just checked the RSPB number (01767 693690) and of course it's only manned during office hours, but you can leave a recorded message asking for advice (the message also suggest contacting the RSPCA on 0300 1234999, but good luck with that one!).Please keep us posted on this.
Ann Williams ● 5181d
Diane this is NOT one of the small green parrots that we have flocks of around here, this is a much bigger bird who makes a completely different noise and has yellow plumage underneath, he's quite big and seems very happy flitting around. Several people have tried to tempt him down to catch him but he's one step ahead of humans I'm afraid.
Vanessa Smith ● 5181d
We had him in a tree in our garden a couple of hours ago squawking away as loud as he could
Paul Fisher ● 5181d
Can someone try and get a picture of this interloper?Sounds very interesting but with winter coming he/she could face problems....If much larger than average it might be a Macaw (McCaw??)
Ian Silver ● 5181d
The only way you will catch it is to tempt it into a trap with food .A squirrel trap would probably do.You would be doing the small indigenous birds a real favour too.
Keith Iddon ● 5181d
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David Giles ● 5175d
The parrot is back again today. We now know who he belongs to - it is the neighbour who lives to the rear of us who was trying to tempt him down with a jar of goodies the first weekend he appeared. So looks like he can only wait until Polly(?) decides to land in the tree in his own garden before attempting another rescue.
Vanessa Smith ● 5157d
He?
Keith Iddon ● 5157d
He's gay Keith, but rather nice.
Ian Silver ● 5157d
He/she/whatever - I haven't got close enough to tell!
Let's say "it".But it might be muslim?