These pictures were taken twenty minutes ago in our garden in SE23 not at some big greenhouse at Kew. They were done on a mobile, no Bill Oddie long lens “twitchers in a disguised shed” business either. We’re still in shock here!
There was an audience of one human being and two cats in shock at its cheekiness. Shall we just give it our front door keys and be done with it?
Those SE23 parakeets are getting worse! Stevyn Iron Feather Journal mentioned we should get a scarecrow and we thought it might be taking it a bit too far. He may be right!
Weeds up to me knees 
Great pics. especially that top one! “Yeah, I see you. And?”
Hi Jan, I know. It’s funny isn’t it! I was actually standing below that sunflower taking a photo of the parakeet on another sunflower at the bottom of the garden and then it came straight towards me! I’ve never heard of death by parakeet before so I knew I was ok. It then swerved onto the Sunflower beside me with a “I couldn’t care less” look on its face. STOP PRESS: We’ve just had an attack on the sunflower now by two squirrels. It’s going to be one of those days ha ha! Hope all is well Jan after the last year and a bit of madness! Pete