Feral Parrots in Our Garden!
Last week I looked down from our deck and saw large bright green and red colors flashing in our yard. Two (probably a mating pair) of beautiful Red-Masked Parakeets pigging out on one of the bird feeders.
They're quite large... from head to tip of tail easily a foot long.
Apperantly our property is within their summer feeding range. Now that we have a park-like garden with hull-free, waste-free bird feeders, they're making our place part of their late afternoon snack stops. They come around 4:30 pm each day.
So we have various migrating finches, humming birds, scrub jays, red tailed hawk, American kesterels, doves, crows and other feathered visitors... not to mention the plants and flowers are attracting butterflies, moths, humming birds, bumble bees, native ground bees and more.
I just thought I'd share this shot.
Anyone else in SF getting visits from members of the SF feral parrot population?
(keeping my mind off of things... you know.)
They're quite large... from head to tip of tail easily a foot long.
Apperantly our property is within their summer feeding range. Now that we have a park-like garden with hull-free, waste-free bird feeders, they're making our place part of their late afternoon snack stops. They come around 4:30 pm each day.
So we have various migrating finches, humming birds, scrub jays, red tailed hawk, American kesterels, doves, crows and other feathered visitors... not to mention the plants and flowers are attracting butterflies, moths, humming birds, bumble bees, native ground bees and more.
I just thought I'd share this shot.
Anyone else in SF getting visits from members of the SF feral parrot population?
(keeping my mind off of things... you know.)