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Aug. 28th, 2003 11:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
senoritafishSomebody in my neighborhood lost a parakeet (budgie) yesterday. There was a yellow-green one perched on the telephone line in front of our house; when some crows flew over, he chattered angrily and fluttered into the top of our Moreton Bay fig to roost with the sparrows and house finches. I couldn't see him anymore, but I could still hear him chirruping until they all went to sleep. Poor little guy. Wish I could have caught him somehow and found his owners.
We have quite a few wild parrots around here. There's a colony of mitered conures that live in the palm trees at the corner where Ocean Blvd. meets Livingston in Long Beach. I heard Dr. Collins, who teaches ornithology at Long Beach State give a talk on them once; every day they all fly up to CSULB to feed on the flowering trees there, then spend the afternoon loitering around the local neighborhoods until they return to their palm trees to roost for the night. I often seen other green parrots, mostly Nanday conures, feeding when the silky oaks in my neighborhood start blooming. They like the nectar.
We have quite a few wild parrots around here. There's a colony of mitered conures that live in the palm trees at the corner where Ocean Blvd. meets Livingston in Long Beach. I heard Dr. Collins, who teaches ornithology at Long Beach State give a talk on them once; every day they all fly up to CSULB to feed on the flowering trees there, then spend the afternoon loitering around the local neighborhoods until they return to their palm trees to roost for the night. I often seen other green parrots, mostly Nanday conures, feeding when the silky oaks in my neighborhood start blooming. They like the nectar.
