Growing giant sunflowers come with various different problems. You have to stake them up to stop them snapping in the wind, keep the slugs and snails off them and there’s also the pigeons and squirrels to contend with. Now the Peckham parakeets are onto them.
It’s not the best photo as it had to be taken clandestinely but there’s at least three birds on the nearest sunflower the one with the multiple heads and one perched on the one furthest away (which hasn’t any flowers) on lookout duty.
It’s funny as when these birds appeared the pigeons and squirels were nowhere to be seen, the same as the cats. You just can’t win! More on those pesky parkeets and the origins of where they may have come from here.
Weeds up to me knees 
Mate they’re mental. The noise of them in my parents garden in Sw London.
I know Ciaran. They are so noisy that even the South London pigeons are keeping out of their way and they don’t usually mess around!
Would a scarecrow help scare them off?
That’s a great idea Stevyn, trouble is they’re only Sunflowers (not Cabbages or anything edible) and in a few weeks time they’ll be frostbitten so I might as well let the Parakeets have a bit of fun!