On Tue, 10 Oct 1995, D. Daily wrote:

>
> The Seattle Parrots (if the Mariners move away, this might
> be a good name for our new baseball team) have returned to
> our yard,
> in spite of the construction and tree removal.
> They are snarfing up the sunflowers.
>
> If I can't have hordes of cedar waxwings, I guess parrots will do.

Doug--

> Get some help and trap 'em out of there...sounds like a golden
opportunity to get rid of exotics that may, in fact, be displacing
your Waxwings..I'm surprised there hasn't been more of an effort
to do this...if they can trap the hybrid ducks out of Green Lake
because in their mating zeal they were pushing the heads of the
females under water and drowning them, it should also be possible
to get rid of parrots..this isn't Florida, right?
Is this possible? Ethical? Doable?

Does anyone know what species they're displacing? Any research on
this?

I find this pretty annoying. Last summer I had an E. grey squirrel
on my Screech Owl Box...needless to say, no owl..this year I think
I'll get an air rifle :-( I suspect my little Doug fir squirrels are
competing..(I have one I think I want to send to the cone cutting
championships this year...I thought it was raining cones!!

Tom