woodpecker damage

[firewoodman]

Caught these two vermin, earlier today.

 

Have the Ring necked Parakeets spread as far up as you yet Bob?

 

They're turfing everything out of their nesting sites down here

 

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shot them with the wrong tool there monkeyd!!!

 

get rid of them before they end up like the squirrels

[David Humphries]

shot them with the wrong tool there monkeyd!!!

 

get rid of them before they end up like the squirrels

 

 

 

That's the truth !

 

 

 

 

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[Mesterh]

Caught these two vermin, earlier today.

 

Have the Ring necked Parakeets spread as far up as you yet Bob?

 

They're turfing everything out of their nesting sites down here

 

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Forgive me if I'm being a muppet but is that for real?

[David Humphries]

Forgive me if I'm being a muppet but is that for real?

 

 

Flocks of them in and around London.

 

The same pair scoping out someone elses abode & one in me blinkin Garden

 

BBC NEWS | Magazine | How do parakeets survive in the UK?

 

 

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[nepia]

Forgive me if I'm being a muppet but is that for real?

 

No 'muppet' Mesterh but yes it's all too flippin' real. When my kids used to play tennis (Redhill, Surrey) I'd collect them 6pm of a summer's evening and watch flight after flight of 30+ birds go over - there were hundreds of them, all on their way to their tree roosts in nearby marshes.

They are typical parrot family; territorial, aggressive and working in numbers. Sadly I believe they are now recognised as 'British' birds. Perhaps with Warming we'll soon have Hummingbirds and Birds of Paradise to go with them! The others posting are dead right; the birds are a menace in this environment, beautiful though they maybe, but have you looked closely at a magpie in the sun? Luvvly plumage...!

[Mesterh]

Well I never!

 

Time to get the air rifle out then fellas