Wildlife of Hillingdon

Badminton Girl · **Joined:** Sun Feb 26, 2012 11:17 am **Posts:** 464

We saw and heard a lot of parakeets when we lived in Dulwich.

jim · **Joined:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 6:10 pm **Posts:** 1461

cant be the same ones :shock:

Moley · **Posted:** Tue Jun 12, 2012 4:20 am

jim wrote:

we often see Parrots over the park that had escaped and have been breeding Townhall park area

The Parakeets are becoming a real problem in West London. Nice to look at but a menace to local birdlife.

htcdude · **Joined:** Tue Jun 12, 2012 4:25 pm **Posts:** 9

Moley wrote:

The Parakeets are becoming a real problem in West London. Nice to look at but a menace to local birdlife.

I believe they're beginning to shoot them now to try and control them (certianly the case in South London anyhoo).

Nige

captain_flynn · **Posted:** Sun Jun 17, 2012 9:21 pm

I've only ever noticed parakeets at Osterley Park.

mwp · **Joined:** Sat Feb 25, 2012 1:50 am **Posts:** 21

Last Tuesday I had three Ducks one female and two males for the last five days also on the Tuesday I had two greater spotted woodpeckers,a green finch,four ravens,four wood pidgeons,two parakeets,blue tits,starlings and three squirrels.On most nights i have two hedgehogs on the lawn,my security light comes on to tell us,we then turn the room lights off and sit there watching them.I have a feeder six feet off the ground on which they have two lots of peanuts,water, seeds,fat balls and some suet. They know a good nosh up when they find one,and after a year of trying to stop the squirrels stealing all the food I managed it by putting a length of 3" plastic pipe over the post,it's fun watching them jump up a slide back down in slow motion.

Batty bat · **Joined:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 8:24 pm **Posts:** 329

mwp wrote:

Last Tuesday I had three Ducks one female and two males for the last five days also on the Tuesday I had two greater spotted woodpeckers,a green finch,four ravens,four wood pidgeons,two parakeets,blue tits,starlings and three squirrels.On most nights i have two hedgehogs on the lawn,my security light comes on to tell us,we then turn the room lights off and sit there watching them.I have a feeder six feet off the ground on which they have two lots of peanuts,water, seeds,fat balls and some suet. They know a good nosh up when they find one,and after a year of trying to stop the squirrels stealing all the food I managed it by putting a length of 3" plastic pipe over the post,it's fun watching them jump up a slide back down in slow motion.

4 Ravens?....

jim · **Joined:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 6:10 pm **Posts:** 1461

Kremmen wrote:

I think if Jim had a 12 bore it would be aimed at Traffic Wardens

I have nothing against wardens par se, just wish they treated their job with a bit of common sense and not the trial and error method, if in doubt book em, :shock:

Sunshine · **Joined:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 10:36 pm **Posts:** 888

I watched a flock of parakeets yesterday flying over our house - they're quite noisy.

Batty bat · **Joined:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 8:24 pm **Posts:** 329

Would that be a "company" of parakeets?

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