Caren,

While I've seen up to maybe 20 or 30 at a time in past years, I have only
seen about 6 to 8 at a time so far this season. That said I haven't tried
to make a count lately and I don't assume I'd seen the whole flock these
last few times. Last time I watched them was on Wednesday morning feeding
in a Cottonwood across the road from the parking lot at shelter 3 at Seward
Park during my "Early Bird Walk" class. It appeared that they were eating
either flower parts or buds as some catkin parts dropped as they fed.

Stewart Wechsler
(Naturalist Seward Park and Camp Long and:)
Ecological Consulting
West Seattle
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From: carenp [mailto:carenp at totalise.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 5:57 PM
To: tweets
Subject: [Tweeters] seward park parrots


whilst being dragged by the two canines, we happened to have been heckled by
two of the seward park parrots as they were being jovial and/or
argumentative at a feeder near 48th and hudson (about a mile or so from
seward park)... according to the owners of the feeder, these two
rapscallions are boisterous and hungry whenever they hit the feeder...

they also claim there were a larger troupe in years past, that only five or
so are known to come to this feeder (which might lead one to believe there
are fewer parrots left from the original numbers)...

anyone know what the troupe strength is, and the trend in total numbers from
years past? this was the first i'd actually seen them, and it was an
enjoyable experience...

00 caren
http://www.parkgallery.org
near seward park
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