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algebra2
Citizen
Username: Algebra2
Post Number: 875
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, April 18, 2003 - 8:47 am: |     |
I saw at least 3 green parrots today which seem to be living in the "wild". I saw them in the brush between the YMCA Daycare and the railroad tracks and I think they may have a nest on top of the metal (transformer?) structure on the track. They were about the size of large blue jays. Anyone else ever seen them?  |
luanda
Citizen
Username: Luanda
Post Number: 23
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 18, 2003 - 9:29 am: | |
Were they pining for the fjords? |
wharfrat
Citizen
Username: Wharfrat
Post Number: 756
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Friday, April 18, 2003 - 12:18 pm: | |
I saw at least 3 green parrots today which seem to be living in the "wild". I saw them in the brush between the YMCA Daycare and the railroad tracks and I think they may have a nest on top of the metal (transformer?) structure on the track. They were about the size of large blue jays. Anyone else ever seen them?
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Chris Dickson
Citizen
Username: Ironman
Post Number: 516
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Friday, April 18, 2003 - 12:32 pm: | |
There's a penguin on the tele ... |
Brian O'Leary
Citizen
Username: Brianoleary
Post Number: 1259
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 18, 2003 - 3:30 pm: | |
And now, it's time for the rabbit ears on top of your television set to explode... |
bobk
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 2923
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, April 18, 2003 - 5:29 pm: | |
Is there an echo in here?? |
Dave Ross
Supporter
Username: Dave
Post Number: 4573
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, April 20, 2003 - 9:44 pm: | |
How'd he know the tele was going to explode? |
algebra2
Citizen
Username: Algebra2
Post Number: 880
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, April 21, 2003 - 9:23 am: | |
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duncanrogers
Citizen
Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 424
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2003 - 8:37 am: | |
I heard something distinctly un-pigeon like behind the Y this morning. Looked hard but a train went by before I could locate the bird. But certainly not anything I hear in my own backyard.
Hmmmm |
algebra2
Citizen
Username: Algebra2
Post Number: 884
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2003 - 9:19 am: | |
I'M TELLING YOU ...THERE ARE "PARROT-LIKE" BIRDS OUT THERE!!!
I'm not crazy |
Bjp
Citizen
Username: Bjp
Post Number: 98
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2003 - 9:27 am: | |
I've seen them in the big tree beside the post office. In another town not far away, there is a huge crowd of parrots. They were released when a pet store delivery truck overturned! It turns out they find this climate tolerable. |
Hank Zona
Citizen
Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 560
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2003 - 9:39 am: | |
There are parrots out there..of course we dont want to publicize this because it will become a major issue. First some will see it as a health threat, with someone posting a link about parrots carrying whatever parrot-borne diseases exist. Then some will fight for the preservation of the parrots, saying the parrots were here first and its our suburban sprawl that is invading their natural habitat. The county may send out a questionnaire asking what youd like to have done about the growing parrot herds (they call them herds..right?). TC members will be bashed, mostly by anonymous posters with names like "parrotman" and "polly's_friend" for their handling of the parrot issue. Some people will go so far as to consider those on the opposite side of the parrot issue to be arch-enemies and villains, calling them things like "imbeciles", all anonymously once again. And youre not crazy, algebra. |
crazyguggenheim
Citizen
Username: Crazyguggenheim
Post Number: 358
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2003 - 11:09 am: | |
Yer all crazy! Yer all crazy!
Call me crazy |
duncanrogers
Citizen
Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 428
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2003 - 1:11 pm: | |
Huzzah Hank.
Great post |
amandacat
Citizen
Username: Amandacat
Post Number: 125
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2003 - 4:43 pm: | |
Algebra2, you're probably not crazy -- not about this at least; I remember reading about colonies of urban parrots in Brooklyn, maybe in The New Yorker? Perhaps these links will help shed a little light on the subject . . .
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/04/0407_030407_parakeets.html
http://urbanneighbors.nypl.org/occasional.html |
botulismo
Citizen
Username: Botulismo
Post Number: 75
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, May 4, 2003 - 9:10 am: | |
There is a nest of green parrots on the catenary support between W. Parker and Jefferson. |
botulismo
Citizen
Username: Botulismo
Post Number: 76
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, May 4, 2003 - 9:27 am: | |
Check this out. I think they might be Monk Parakeets. Con Edison has had problems with them nesting on overhead transformers for years. They are known to be extremely determined when defending their nests. Every once in a while, they cross phases with their wings and "POOF" - KFC birdie!
http://www.birdsofna.org/excerpts/monk.html |
algebra2
Citizen
Username: Algebra2
Post Number: 930
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, May 5, 2003 - 9:53 am: | |
so .... I'm not THAT crazy after all. |
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