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Tag: Rose-Ringed Parakeet

Kenworthy Woods

Posted on19 March 202019 March 2020Leave a comment

Highlights from a stroll around a local woodland in Northern Moor and a welcome break from the increasingly crazy world of the Coronavirus pandemic. Read More …

CategoriesBirdsTagsBullfinch, Kenworthy Woods, Ring-necked Parakeet, Rose-Ringed Parakeet

Alien Encounter

Posted on7 January 20177 January 2017Leave a comment

Great to have an opportunity to visit a local woodland during daylight over the Christmas and New Year break. The unmistakable sound of Ring-necked Parakeets arriving shortly after dawn has become increasingly common. Quite surprising to see them excavating a new nesting hole on 2nd January. Read More …

CategoriesBirdsTagsRing-necked Parakeet, Rose-Ringed Parakeet

A long way from home.

Posted on20 February 201420 February 20143 Comments

After weeks of rain the clouds parted to allow a few hours of sunshine so we headed off to the local park to check up on the Ring necked Parakeets. Currently there’s thought to be up to 30 Parakeets slowly colonising south Manchester.  Whilst they’re Read More …

CategoriesBirdsTagsFebruary, Ringed-necked Parakeet, Rose-Ringed Parakeet, Stenner Wood

Home is where the hole is

Posted on9 April 20139 April 20132 Comments

  Rose-ringed Parakeet in Didsbury. One of at least 3 pairs breeding in the local park (and another dodgy digiscoped effort). Although technically feral they seem to have found a niche in south Manchester and the population is now circa 30 birds. One of the Read More …

CategoriesBirdsTagsDidsbury, Dipper, Nest building, Ring-necked Parakeet, River Mersey, Rose-Ringed Parakeet

Mistletoe and Parakeets

Posted on17 December 201217 December 2012Leave a comment

  Mistletoe growing at Parsonage Gardens, Disbury – fairly safe to assume its not been planted ! Local knowledge suggests that at some point between 1912-1919 Alderman Fletcher Moss had mistletoe ‘planted’ on the old apple tree in his Parsonage Garden in Didsbury. The original Read More …

CategoriesBirds, FloraTagsMistletoe, Ringed-necked Parakeet, Rose-Ringed Parakeet

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