parakeets pruning!

[peterthewomble]

Hello,

 

The tree is now completely stripped of leaves except for one branch just above the shed (where our neighbours cats are a bit too close for comfort I guess).

 

It happened to a lesser extent last year, and much worse this year.

 

Is it worth asking the council to cut the branches back (is that called pollarding?) I don't want damaged branches falling on the kids!

 

I tried using a super-soaker to squirt the parakeets, but they're just too high up.

 

My vine is next in line if they hang around.

 

Peter

[Fungus]

Is there any documentation of damage done by Rose-ringed Parakeets to other tree species and of them being a threat to other birds and especially bats because they take over their sleeping and nesting holes ?

[firewood]

We've got them in abundance, but never seen them do that.

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/forestry-woodland-management/9980-fueling-invasion.html

 

 

Daves a TO down in the London Borough of Merton, maybe they're a bit more feisty darn sarf

 

 

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I grew up in lb merton close to cannon hill common. Spent much of my time climbing trees and making camps there or fishing in the lake. Happy days.

 

Went back for the first time in 15 years recently and was amazed to find a colony of parakeets down by the lake.

 

In my day we would have caught them and sold them to the pet shop in raynes park.lol .

 

http://www.kinnoirwoodfuel.co.uk

[Minotaur]

Alot, but not necessarily all the Parakeets in the South come from an escape/release from the then Wellcome Laboratory site in Eden Park, Beckenham, Kent. Its was never explained fully, but there are huge Flocks of Parakeets in that area.

They land, nest or visit an area, strip the trees and then move on.

 

I think they should be exterminated before they ruin the habitate for native species of birds, insects etc.

[David Humphries]

Is there any documentation of damage done by Rose-ringed Parakeets to other tree species and of them being a threat to other birds and especially bats because they take over their sleeping and nesting holes ?

 

Haven't been able to find anything specific as yet

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

We've got them in abundance, but never seen them do that.

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Well, couple of years down the line and theyre now doing the stripping thing where we are.

 

 

Hadn't noticed it before, and as yet no sign of total canopy stripping, but it looks as if they are now getting a taste for our trees

 

 

 

Pulled my team from a decayed Ash reduction yesterday, as they discovered three Parakeet eggs in an old woodpecker hole.

 

The Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981 - schedule 1

 

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[sloth]

What odd behaviour, I wonder why the do it? Perhaps they'll get a taste for and wipe out Cameraria then get fall fowl to buzzards? Wishful thinking I'm sure!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Rabbits, squirrels, glis glis parakeets, where will it end!

[Fungus]

What odd behaviour, I wonder why the do it?

 

Sloth,

New foliage and flower buds are rich in proteins and vitamins. It's the same with singing birds nourishing themselves with pollen of willow and pine.

And sparrows eat yellow crocus flowers and cows pilewort flowers for their spring dose of carotene.

[sloth]

Makes more sense, there was me thinking they stripped the trees and didn't eat them!