Reviving this so that if someone else wants to do the same, put a decoy parakeet toy and make sure you have plenty of starlings, the noise they make for some reason attracted some parakeets and now they visit my garden three times a week. In the early morning around noon and just before sunset.
Britain's naturalised parrot is officially a pest. Forty years after it first bred on the outskirts of London, the ring-necked parakeet joined gulls, crows and magpies on the short list of birds which can be legally shot without special permission.
Regardless of how pretty they are for grain farmers they are now a real nuisance not just eating the grain but they flatten the straw making it difficult to harvest.
"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
Wow.......I saw a flock of them at BIL's house in Feltham, beautiful sight. I didn't realise they are considered a pest, but I suppose those beaks and claws would do a lot of damage. I assume they we originally family pets which escaped their cages?
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Forty years after it first bred on the outskirts of London, the ring-necked parakeet joined gulls, crows and magpies on the short list of birds which can be legally shot without special permission.
Regardless of how pretty they are for grain farmers they are now a real nuisance not just eating the grain but they flatten the straw making it difficult to harvest.
I assume they we originally family pets which escaped their cages?