[meteorite-list] OFF TOPIC - Unusual
Very off topic, but some info on London parrots (!)... http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wolf0977/swlondon.html Mark
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neat birds! and i concur w/ you buffet- i have a house 25 miles from key west and if i ever want to kill some weeds or unwanted grass, i just put on a buffet cd, head out in the boat for the day and they're dead and withered when i get back! works on roaches too!
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Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 21:56:49 -0400
Check out those parrot ID's - supposedly, Jimmy Buffet's is still
missing, reportedly stolen last year, but he never got it back. Who
knows, perhaps that bird got tired of bagged seeds and listening to the
same songs over and over again :^)
CharlyV
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Hey Mikey,
I'm from Brasil (true spelling) and all OFF TOPIC'S should
be
so fascinating. I wish I could've seen the feathery and colorful
illegals(joke).Even parrot's are "COMIN TO AMERICA" like the Neil
Diamond
Global Hit Song. But it's the warm climate in San Diego, which is
similar to
parts of South America that has allowed them to survive and will
probably
propagate . The will pass by your house again . The species has homing
capabilities- to known food sources. Let's hope some ignorant rural's
don't
shoot them out of the sky. In Brasil we would all come out of our school
rooms when hundreds flew noisily overhead.It was like a living rainbow-
coollest thing to see. Real nice OFF TOPIC.
Now, back to fusion crusted birds of another kind- METEORITES {:-)
* #0583 - OUT
From: Michael L Blood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Meteorite List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [meteorite-list] OFF TOPIC - Unusual
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 11:10:43 -0700
WARNING: This is off topic, so, some/many of you may wish to hit
your delete button.
Yesterday (Sept. 8) a very unusual occurrence took place in my
yard: A flock of a dozen parrots came to eat my leftover sunflower
seeds!
When I went out to pick up the paper at about 8 AM I was
alerted
when a neighbor lady called out to me, "Mr. Blood, there are parrots in
your sunflowers!" And, to my delight and amazement, there were,
indeed, parrots feeding off the Russian Giant Sunflowers! I had left
most of them to dry in the sun, even though the birds had been eating
them©. but I had surely never seen parrots doing so.
In fact, there were twelve of them an entire flock. And
beautiful they were, indeed. Most amazing, they were clearly
all the same species.
I grabbed my camera and went out to get some photos. You can see
most of the photos I captured of these beautiful creatures at:
http://community.webshots.com/album/89632975MfUNTL
(Particularly nice are photos # P16 P15)
I later researched the species. They had beautiful blue
heads, orangish top beak and near black bottom beak with
a little blue in their underwing and red in the underside of
some of their tail feathers. Their legs and feet were flesh
colored and when I later examined their photos closely, I
could see no bands on any of their legs, indicating they likely
escaped bird importers in the Tiajuana area and/or have
bread in the wilds of this area. They turned out to be Sharp-tailed
Conures (Aratinga acuticaudata) which are native to Brazil,
Bolivia, Uruguay and Argentina. So, they are clearly an escaped
flock that have naturalized in the area.
It is very rare to see parrot flocks in San Diego, but one
hears of them appearing here there on occasion. Usually,
however, such flocks are reported to contain mixed species
of parrots, presumably attracted to their own kind having
escaped captivity individually. This is the only occurrence
I have been aware of where an entire flock was the same
species.
In any event, I will certainly be planting more sunflowers
next year!
Best wishes, Michael
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[meteorite-list] OFF TOPIC - Unusual
WARNING: This is off topic, so, some/many of you may wish to hit your delete button. Yesterday (Sept. 8) a very unusual occurrence took place in my yard: A flock of a dozen parrots came to eat my leftover sunflower seeds! When I went out to pick up the paper at about 8 AM I was alerted when a neighbor lady called out to me, Mr. Blood, there are parrots in your sunflowers! And, to my delight and amazement, there were, indeed, parrots feeding off the Russian Giant Sunflowers! I had left most of them to dry in the sun, even though the birds had been eating them. but I had surely never seen parrots doing so. In fact, there were twelve of them an entire flock. And beautiful they were, indeed. Most amazing, they were clearly all the same species. I grabbed my camera and went out to get some photos. You can see most of the photos I captured of these beautiful creatures at: http://community.webshots.com/album/89632975MfUNTL (Particularly nice are photos # P16 P15) I later researched the species. They had beautiful blue heads, orangish top beak and near black bottom beak with a little blue in their underwing and red in the underside of some of their tail feathers. Their legs and feet were flesh colored and when I later examined their photos closely, I could see no bands on any of their legs, indicating they likely escaped bird importers in the Tiajuana area and/or have bread in the wilds of this area. They turned out to be Sharp-tailed Conures (Aratinga acuticaudata) which are native to Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay and Argentina. So, they are clearly an escaped flock that have naturalized in the area. It is very rare to see parrot flocks in San Diego, but one hears of them appearing here there on occasion. Usually, however, such flocks are reported to contain mixed species of parrots, presumably attracted to their own kind having escaped captivity individually. This is the only occurrence I have been aware of where an entire flock was the same species. In any event, I will certainly be planting more sunflowers next year! Best wishes, Michael __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
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Title: Re: [meteorite-list] OFF TOPIC - Unusual Very nice pictures, I wish they were here in Michigan but I doubt it would never happened here. Tom P. WARNING: This is off topic, so, some/many of you may wish to hit your delete button. Yesterday (Sept. 8) a very unusual occurrence took place in my yard: A flock of a dozen parrots came to eat my leftover sunflower seeds! When I went out to pick up the paper at about 8 AM I was alerted when a neighbor lady called out to me, Mr. Blood, there are parrots in your sunflowers! And, to my delight and amazement, there were, indeed, parrots feeding off the Russian Giant Sunflowers! I had left most of them to dry in the sun, even though the birds had been eating them. but I had surely never seen parrots doing so. In fact, there were twelve of them an entire flock. And beautiful they were, indeed. Most amazing, they were clearly all the same species. I grabbed my camera and went out to get some photos. You can see most of the photos I captured of these beautiful creatures at: http://community.webshots.com/album/89632975MfUNTL (Particularly nice are photos # P16 P15) I later researched the species. They had beautiful blue heads, orangish top beak and near black bottom beak with a little blue in their underwing and red in the underside of some of their tail feathers. Their legs and feet were flesh colored and when I later examined their photos closely, I could see no bands on any of their legs, indicating they likely escaped bird importers in the Tiajuana area and/or have bread in the wilds of this area. They turned out to be Sharp-tailed Conures (Aratinga acuticaudata) which are native to Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay and Argentina. So, they are clearly an escaped flock that have naturalized in the area. It is very rare to see parrot flocks in San Diego, but one hears of them appearing here there on occasion. Usually, however, such flocks are reported to contain mixed species of parrots, presumably attracted to their own kind having escaped captivity individually. This is the only occurrence I have been aware of where an entire flock was the same species. In any event, I will certainly be planting more sunflowers next year! Best wishes, Michael __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
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Hey Mikey,
I'm from Brasil (true spelling) and all OFF TOPIC'S should be
so fascinating. I wish I could've seen the feathery and colorful
illegals(joke).Even parrot's are COMIN TO AMERICA like the Neil Diamond
Global Hit Song. But it's the warm climate in San Diego, which is similar to
parts of South America that has allowed them to survive and will probably
propagate . The will pass by your house again . The species has homing
capabilities- to known food sources. Let's hope some ignorant rural's don't
shoot them out of the sky. In Brasil we would all come out of our school
rooms when hundreds flew noisily overhead.It was like a living rainbow-
coollest thing to see. Real nice OFF TOPIC.
Now, back to fusion crusted birds of another kind- METEORITES {:-)
*#0583 - OUT
From: Michael L Blood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Meteorite List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [meteorite-list] OFF TOPIC - Unusual
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 11:10:43 -0700
WARNING: This is off topic, so, some/many of you may wish to hit
your delete button.
Yesterday (Sept. 8) a very unusual occurrence took place in my
yard: A flock of a dozen parrots came to eat my leftover sunflower
seeds!
When I went out to pick up the paper at about 8 AM I was alerted
when a neighbor lady called out to me, Mr. Blood, there are parrots in
your sunflowers! And, to my delight and amazement, there were,
indeed, parrots feeding off the Russian Giant Sunflowers! I had left
most of them to dry in the sun, even though the birds had been eating
them. but I had surely never seen parrots doing so.
In fact, there were twelve of them an entire flock. And
beautiful they were, indeed. Most amazing, they were clearly
all the same species.
I grabbed my camera and went out to get some photos. You can see
most of the photos I captured of these beautiful creatures at:
http://community.webshots.com/album/89632975MfUNTL
(Particularly nice are photos # P16 P15)
I later researched the species. They had beautiful blue
heads, orangish top beak and near black bottom beak with
a little blue in their underwing and red in the underside of
some of their tail feathers. Their legs and feet were flesh
colored and when I later examined their photos closely, I
could see no bands on any of their legs, indicating they likely
escaped bird importers in the Tiajuana area and/or have
bread in the wilds of this area. They turned out to be Sharp-tailed
Conures (Aratinga acuticaudata) which are native to Brazil,
Bolivia, Uruguay and Argentina. So, they are clearly an escaped
flock that have naturalized in the area.
It is very rare to see parrot flocks in San Diego, but one
hears of them appearing here there on occasion. Usually,
however, such flocks are reported to contain mixed species
of parrots, presumably attracted to their own kind having
escaped captivity individually. This is the only occurrence
I have been aware of where an entire flock was the same
species.
In any event, I will certainly be planting more sunflowers
next year!
Best wishes, Michael
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Michael and list, Here in southern New England there exists groups of Monk parrots. These parrots are, I believe, native to Argentina. The predominant theory is that they escaped from ships in New York city. They have been here in Rhode Island, year round mind you, for at least 15 years. I first saw one of the groups, for they have multiplied into many colonies over the years, on a Xmas morning at my parent's house where I saw 7 of them sitting on the backyard clothesline in a snowstorm! Had never heard of them, but soon a large colony took up residence in a neighbor's tree. Each pair of parrots has a seperate chamber in a huge communal nest. When they came home to roost at dusk the din was incredible. It would suddenly sound like the jungle and I'd deadpan to any visitors oh, that's just the parrots. There's about 50 live in a tree out back. They have since moved on but colonies still thrive here abouts and elsewhere in New England I'm sure. Charlie ---BeginMessage--- WARNING: This is off topic, so, some/many of you may wish to hit your delete button. Yesterday (Sept. 8) a very unusual occurrence took place in my yard: A flock of a dozen parrots came to eat my leftover sunflower seeds! When I went out to pick up the paper at about 8 AM I was alerted when a neighbor lady called out to me, Mr. Blood, there are parrots in your sunflowers! And, to my delight and amazement, there were, indeed, parrots feeding off the Russian Giant Sunflowers! I had left most of them to dry in the sun, even though the birds had been eating them. but I had surely never seen parrots doing so. In fact, there were twelve of them an entire flock. And beautiful they were, indeed. Most amazing, they were clearly all the same species. I grabbed my camera and went out to get some photos. You can see most of the photos I captured of these beautiful creatures at: http://community.webshots.com/album/89632975MfUNTL (Particularly nice are photos # P16 P15) I later researched the species. They had beautiful blue heads, orangish top beak and near black bottom beak with a little blue in their underwing and red in the underside of some of their tail feathers. Their legs and feet were flesh colored and when I later examined their photos closely, I could see no bands on any of their legs, indicating they likely escaped bird importers in the Tiajuana area and/or have bread in the wilds of this area. They turned out to be Sharp-tailed Conures (Aratinga acuticaudata) which are native to Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay and Argentina. So, they are clearly an escaped flock that have naturalized in the area. It is very rare to see parrot flocks in San Diego, but one hears of them appearing here there on occasion. Usually, however, such flocks are reported to contain mixed species of parrots, presumably attracted to their own kind having escaped captivity individually. This is the only occurrence I have been aware of where an entire flock was the same species. In any event, I will certainly be planting more sunflowers next year! Best wishes, Michael __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ---End Message---
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Dear Michael and List; So, what is the bag limit and do they taste like chicken? I have heard of black birds in a pie but parrots in a birthday cake? Thank you all that wished me happy youthful five-Oh, Yours truly, Dave Freeman Michael L Blood wrote: WARNING: This is off topic, so, some/many of you may wish to hit your delete button. Yesterday (Sept. 8) a very unusual occurrence took place in my yard: A flock of a dozen parrots came to eat my leftover sunflower seeds! When I went out to pick up the paper at about 8 AM I was alerted when a neighbor lady called out to me, Mr. Blood, there are parrots in your sunflowers! And, to my delight and amazement, there were, indeed, parrots feeding off the Russian Giant Sunflowers! I had left most of them to dry in the sun, even though the birds had been eating themS(. but I had surely never seen parrots doing so. In fact, there were twelve of them an entire flock. And beautiful they were, indeed. Most amazing, they were clearly all the same species. I grabbed my camera and went out to get some photos. You can see most of the photos I captured of these beautiful creatures at: http://community.webshots.com/album/89632975MfUNTL (Particularly nice are photos # P16 P15) I later researched the species. They had beautiful blue heads, orangish top beak and near black bottom beak with a little blue in their underwing and red in the underside of some of their tail feathers. Their legs and feet were flesh colored and when I later examined their photos closely, I could see no bands on any of their legs, indicating they likely escaped bird importers in the Tiajuana area and/or have bread in the wilds of this area. They turned out to be Sharp-tailed Conures (Aratinga acuticaudata) which are native to Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay and Argentina. So, they are clearly an escaped flock that have naturalized in the area. It is very rare to see parrot flocks in San Diego, but one hears of them appearing here there on occasion. Usually, however, such flocks are reported to contain mixed species of parrots, presumably attracted to their own kind having escaped captivity individually. This is the only occurrence I have been aware of where an entire flock was the same species. In any event, I will certainly be planting more sunflowers next year! Best wishes, Michael __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
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Check out those parrot ID's - supposedly, Jimmy Buffet's is still
missing, reportedly stolen last year, but he never got it back. Who
knows, perhaps that bird got tired of bagged seeds and listening to the
same songs over and over again :^)
CharlyV
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Hey Mikey,
I'm from Brasil (true spelling) and all OFF TOPIC'S should
be
so fascinating. I wish I could've seen the feathery and colorful
illegals(joke).Even parrot's are COMIN TO AMERICA like the Neil
Diamond
Global Hit Song. But it's the warm climate in San Diego, which is
similar to
parts of South America that has allowed them to survive and will
probably
propagate . The will pass by your house again . The species has homing
capabilities- to known food sources. Let's hope some ignorant rural's
don't
shoot them out of the sky. In Brasil we would all come out of our school
rooms when hundreds flew noisily overhead.It was like a living rainbow-
coollest thing to see. Real nice OFF TOPIC.
Now, back to fusion crusted birds of another kind- METEORITES {:-)
*#0583 - OUT
From: Michael L Blood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Meteorite List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [meteorite-list] OFF TOPIC - Unusual
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 11:10:43 -0700
WARNING: This is off topic, so, some/many of you may wish to hit
your delete button.
Yesterday (Sept. 8) a very unusual occurrence took place in my
yard: A flock of a dozen parrots came to eat my leftover sunflower
seeds!
When I went out to pick up the paper at about 8 AM I was
alerted
when a neighbor lady called out to me, Mr. Blood, there are parrots in
your sunflowers! And, to my delight and amazement, there were,
indeed, parrots feeding off the Russian Giant Sunflowers! I had left
most of them to dry in the sun, even though the birds had been eating
them. but I had surely never seen parrots doing so.
In fact, there were twelve of them an entire flock. And
beautiful they were, indeed. Most amazing, they were clearly
all the same species.
I grabbed my camera and went out to get some photos. You can see
most of the photos I captured of these beautiful creatures at:
http://community.webshots.com/album/89632975MfUNTL
(Particularly nice are photos # P16 P15)
I later researched the species. They had beautiful blue
heads, orangish top beak and near black bottom beak with
a little blue in their underwing and red in the underside of
some of their tail feathers. Their legs and feet were flesh
colored and when I later examined their photos closely, I
could see no bands on any of their legs, indicating they likely
escaped bird importers in the Tiajuana area and/or have
bread in the wilds of this area. They turned out to be Sharp-tailed
Conures (Aratinga acuticaudata) which are native to Brazil,
Bolivia, Uruguay and Argentina. So, they are clearly an escaped
flock that have naturalized in the area.
It is very rare to see parrot flocks in San Diego, but one
hears of them appearing here there on occasion. Usually,
however, such flocks are reported to contain mixed species
of parrots, presumably attracted to their own kind having
escaped captivity individually. This is the only occurrence
I have been aware of where an entire flock was the same
species.
In any event, I will certainly be planting more sunflowers
next year!
Best wishes, Michael
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