Jane Stewart wrote:

I live in north Ballard 29th NW and 89th NW (on a greenbelt) just East
of Golden Gardens. They were BIG (not parakeets?)


The parakeets of which I speak are much, much larger than the Budgerigars
that most people call "parakeet." With their long tails, they're about a
foot long, as long as a pet-store amazon parrot but not so bulky, of
course. If they have long tails, they're presumably parakeets. I gather
you didn't get an impression of tail length, however.

If they were parakeets, this makes me wonder if there IS more than one
group of them, unless they bomb around a lot more than we think. That's
not impossible, as parrots in the tropics can fly many miles from roost
sites to feeding areas, just as starlings do here.. What do you think,
Mike and Fred? Were they absent from Maple Leaf and Seward Park when Jane
saw them?

Jane, it's odd that your messages go to tweeters with your address, but
there's no return address when you post to me. You ought to contact
bogle.com to see what's going on.

Dennis Paulson, Director phone 206-756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax 206-756-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail dpaulson at ups.edu
Tacoma, WA 98416