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I didn’t know parrots could live in a place so cold.
When I lived Hyde Park, I woke to seeing these birds in my backyard. Gorgeous and unexpected.
When I was dating my future wife, from the far south side, one day she cooked dinner at her place and I took out the garbage and heard a cacophony of squawks overhead. I didn’t know about them but she said they lived around there. They had, and might still have, a huge stick nest on a utility pole by Wolf Lake.
Precious and brave little birds.
We had temps of 9 below zero for two nights and I was quite sure that Louise, little stray cat I feed, had died. Didn’t see her for days. And suddenly, here she came. God is good.
That’s amazing. We feed the birds and have 58 different types of birds that come to our yard throughout the year. A lot of our visitors think the American Goldfinches that frequent our feeders year round are parakeets.
If they visited my area of North Cal. the Crows and the Bluejays would probably wage battle against the Parrots for territory. I’ve seen a small flock (murder?) of Crows chasing a Sun Conure down the highway, into a park.
For a couple of years in the early 70’s I had my first apartment in Hyde Park on the same street as the park where they had their huge nest, big as a vw bug. I would get home from work and cross the street with my dog into the park and it was just about 60 feet away. Harold Washington, the mayor, was so protective that he had a squad car permanently parked under it for awhile. Sad to read they are gone from there. It was wild to see a flock of them fly over you.
There was a parrot event in my life. I think they are beautiful, but that bird... was living on the precipice of annihilation!
They are so lonely they’re miserable in captivity. It’s sad, at the very least they should be paired. Parrot trappers should be shot.
On my first trip to Germany I was surprised to see hundreds of green parrots in Heidelberg. I was told they originated with escaped pets.
Oh GREAT! NOW we have illegal avians! 8^(