Friday, February 27, 2004

Haunted No More

imageI don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned it here before or not, but I’ve kind of been obsessed by these wild parrots I’ve been seeing in Los Angeles for the past ten years or so. It got worse when I started working in Hollywood, because there seems to be a large colony of them over in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

The story goes that these were birds imported to the US and they were in quarantine down in Long Beach. Then there was a big storm in 1992 destroyed the aviary and all the birds escaped. The resourceful little conures (parakeets) set up sucessful breeding colonies all over Los Angeles, including Hollywood, Santa Monica, Temple City and Pasadena. They’re entirely unexpected, in a way, when you’re walking down the street and you’ll look up into a palm tree and hear their cackles and see something the same color as the fronds flitting about. I’m not having much luck finding info out on the ‘net about them, except for this lovely but slightly outdated site called Parrot Project.

But this morning, not only did I get to see them much closer up than usual, I also snapped a few photos.

There were two out there today, though I only caught one of them with the camera. As far as I can tell, it’s a blue crowned conure. It’s not a bad picture of the cedar waxwing either ...

POSTED BY Cybele AT 7:49 pm    

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