Joe Cannarozzi
10-13-2007, 07:15 PM
In our hometown and common specifically only to a couple of block radius in our neighborhood, a sneeze from downtown Chicago, up where it gets down below freezing for 3 or 4 months a year, and often below zero and frigid in Feb. we have wild parrots:confused:
1725
This fence is just out back.
1726
No your eyes are not deceiving you. They are wild quaker parrots. We have a large flock a 100 or more.
Some of their nests are as big as a bar fridge and when they fall the city sends our the front end loader to scoop it up.
Winter and cold do not seem to hurt them, we have been here 17 years now and although their numbers are noticeably increasing they seem to be sticking to a relatively very small perimeter.
Noisy little devils though. Seem to get along with kindly with all other birds. Accept for our two new resident Hawks they have attracted, praying on the babies.
Deb is now petrified that the hawk is gonna snatch her little four-legged Ringo.
That's good old mother nature doing her thing up here in the Windy.
1725
This fence is just out back.
1726
No your eyes are not deceiving you. They are wild quaker parrots. We have a large flock a 100 or more.
Some of their nests are as big as a bar fridge and when they fall the city sends our the front end loader to scoop it up.
Winter and cold do not seem to hurt them, we have been here 17 years now and although their numbers are noticeably increasing they seem to be sticking to a relatively very small perimeter.
Noisy little devils though. Seem to get along with kindly with all other birds. Accept for our two new resident Hawks they have attracted, praying on the babies.
Deb is now petrified that the hawk is gonna snatch her little four-legged Ringo.
That's good old mother nature doing her thing up here in the Windy.