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How do I attract parakeets?

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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    It's the noise I can't stand. Try 20 having a party in your tree every day. Screeching kids nothing. You'll be begging for trampolines and BBQs instead.
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    You and me both Fire! They can't seem to move their wings without screeching. I foolishly let a sycamore get hold in my garden and they used to congregate every afternoon, my neighbour had an open bird table and mesh feeders in an apple tree, they just waited for him to fill up and they moved in.

    My brother had my tree removed last year for me and the numbers dropped immediately, my neighbour sadly passed away earlier this year and now I rarely see any. They did try to get to my feeders but without success - hoping they stay away.


    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • I want parakeets to come  aswell there's loads about a mile away how do I get them to come to my garden for snacks and to get Rid of the boring starlings
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    You'll regret it!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • And they do less damage to your garden plants than parakeets do … and have you ever really looked at a starling in full breeding plumage?  They’re absolutely beautiful 💚 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039

    Boring!! I don't think so.
    Parakeets are causing untold damage to the populations of native birds.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • LeadFarmerLeadFarmer Posts: 1,500
    I consider them a pest where I live as they are everywhere. Doesn't help living next to a very large park which I think is where they roost. I see them as an invasive species, not sure what if any impact they are having on our native songbirds or their nesting sites but I'd happily see them culled.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    They drown out the sound of native birdsong too.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • RedwingRedwing Posts: 1,511
    Based in Sussex, I garden to encourage as many birds to my garden as possible.
  • ColinAColinA Posts: 392
    Invasive species say no more !!!
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