Vox

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Looking Up

Posted on | December 14, 2009 | 3 Comments

On my walk with the puppies this morning, I learned something about my neighborhood.
There are flocks of parrots living here.

I’ve been here a dozen years or so and I have never seen them. Granted, I’ve never gone for a walk at 7:30 in the morning, either, so that could be part of it. Unfortunately, I still wouldn’t have noticed them if there hadn’t been a nice lady out walking her old (17 years!) dog. As we were chatting, discussing breeds and such, she looked up and pointed one of the birds out to me. It was gorgeous, bright green with bits of yellow and orange. She said there were bunches of them, she thought at least two ‘separate’ flocks, and that they’d been there as long as she can remember.

As we continued on our way, I kept glancing skyward and sure enough, there they were, in many of the trees, on the electrical wires. Beautiful.

I wonder what else you morning people know about that the rest of us don’t…

BTW: I’ve been trying to find out what kind of parrots they are since we got back, but I’ve had no luck. Medium-sized with short tails. Anyone?



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Category: animals, Phoenix

Comments

3 Responses to “Looking Up”

  1. John Moore (Useful Fools Blog)
    December 17th, 2009 @ 5:38 pm

    Nice to see we’re not the only non-morning-people 🙂

    You are seeing “peach-faced lovebirds” – and they are visible other times of day also.

    They are not native.

    See http://www.birdchannel.com/bird-magazines/bird-talk/2009-february/peach-faced-lovebirds.aspx

    Cheers

  2. Vox
    December 17th, 2009 @ 7:38 pm

    That is awesome, John. Thanks for the info.

    I checked out the spotting map & it looks like no one had reported them near me before, so I added another pin to the map. So cool to know what I am looking at 🙂

  3. Peachy
    July 11th, 2010 @ 5:55 am

    […] is one of the parrots that reside in my neighborhood, though this one isn’t in my neighborhood (but it is in Phoenix, somewhere) var […]

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