May be considered a pest but they look nice in my garden 😀

🙂 nice

That sure is some fancy pants baby robin you’ve got there!

Coming over here taking our nuts.

They shoot em round these parts
http://www.wharf.co.uk/2013/07/isle-of-dogs-parakeet-cull-sho.htmlComin here eating our nuts !!

Do they east swans too

Problem is the Bias Bird Corporation lie about their teal impact

So, Is that what I’ve seen flying around squalking? What’s the story with them?

Would I have seen them in front of Windsor Castle a couple of weeks ago? Maybe not those exact birds, but ones of their ilk?

twoniner,see here – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_parakeets

(assuming the OP is in the SW London area)

Would I have seen them in front of Windsor Castle

Yes, I live near Windsor

Would I have seen them in front of Windsor Castle a couple of weeks ago?

Yep, pretty likely. There’s loads South West and West of London.

Well I never – thanks for posting, we wondered what they were. 🙂

I’m sure I’ve seen 2 of those fly over my pad on the North Wales coast a few times.

Felt like I was getting divebombed by the noisey blighters when I was walking on Wormwood Scrubs last year, they were roosting – there were thousands of them. Pretty mind.

The do seem to bully and dive bomb, saw a pigeon running away this afternoon

Escaped pets, the prior owner of my first house used to return to the area regularly the check on his escaped Parrot, full size one, it lived for nearly 10 years before it dissapeared.

We’ve got one that regularly visits our garden in Glasgow – seems very wild, too wild to be a pet. It has great fun winding up the jackdaws…

Saw two parrots flying round the Kirby Stephen area. Kind of surreal but very spectacular!

There is a large population in Beckenham Place Park and they seem to have spread from the SW to the SE London suburbs over the last 20 years or so.
The idea that all these birds are descended from just one breeding pair seems a bit far fetched. They make a racket but they don’t play the banjo try and abuse middle aged men in the woods 🙂
The African Queen theory sounds far more plausible as a mass release would have given the possibility for the more hardy birds to survive and then reproduce a less tropical variant.
The sheer number indicates that a larger quantity than a single breeding pair went on to reproduce.

We have loads of these over in SE London, and according to the old people round here we have had for years. I didn’t notice until one day my little girl (4) was drawing and all the birds in her picture she coloured in green. I asked her why, and she told me thats what colour the birds are daddy, since then I always notice them. Big flocks of 100s flying about.

Don’t let Nigel Farage find out. He will start foaming and swivelling his eyes.

foreign immigrants, over here stealing our nuts? or prison escapees freeloading on hardworking birds nut handouts?
either way, best call the daily mail and let them know.