Yellow Chevroned Parakeet
Feb 18, 2012 20:05:00 #
I took a morning stroll to a small park in downtown Los Angeles and ran across a few of the locals. Yellow Chevroned Parakeets are native to South America but this group has made Southern California their year around home. The flock ranges from a few... to hundreds sometimes roosting in the trees on an off ramp of the Hollywood freeway watching the traffic crawl by. I can usually count on at least hearing their unique squawk on my walks through downtown and always enjoy seeing them. These were taken with my 18-270 Tamron and are massively cropped (I plan to bring my longer lens next time I go birding in downtown LA).
Feb 18, 2012 21:41:27 #
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Feb 19, 2012 13:09:56 #
Here are more from a few years back. Taken with my old camera a Nikon D50.
Feb 19, 2012 14:30:14 #
What a beautiful bird and your photos of them are great. In the Miami area, we have lots of Parrots and Parakeets that are wild. Hurricane Andrew destroyed the Miami Zoo in 1992, along with the aviary. The birds that managed to survive have now multiplied. There is a very big flock of Macaws that are seen regularly in the South Miami area.
Feb 19, 2012 14:41:14 #
Feb 21, 2012 13:45:26 #
what type of fruits are they eating in the first set of photos?And likewise in the second set of photos. When i visited aruba years ago their were some albino blue jays feeding on some type of fruit and flying very erratically as they got a little high on the fermented fruit.Thanks!!
Feb 21, 2012 22:13:51 #
Thank you all for the nice comments!! I will try to post a few more when I have my longer lens with me.
That tree is a Silk Floss Tree the trunk and larger limbs are covered with thorns simular to a rose bush. Not a great place to lean on to study your shots (trust me on this I did it).
redfordl wrote:
what type of fruits are they eating in the first set of photos?And likewise in the second set of photos. When i visited aruba years ago their were some albino blue jays feeding on some type of fruit and flying very erratically as they got a little high on the fermented fruit.Thanks!!
That tree is a Silk Floss Tree the trunk and larger limbs are covered with thorns simular to a rose bush. Not a great place to lean on to study your shots (trust me on this I did it).
Feb 22, 2012 15:26:22 #
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