SQUARE TOPS – ON TOP OF THE WORLD – Nanday Parakeet
On our visit to Tampa for the New Year, we took a day trip to Fort De Soto Park in Pinellas County, Florida. Our bird of the day was the Nanday Parakeet. I had seen them in St. Petersburg before, but we were not birding then and had certainly not been counting them. I wanted this bird to add to my “Life List”. Within five minutes of pulling into the parking lot where you can pay for a ferry ride to Egmont Key Island, a flock of 28 flew over our car and landed on the beach. I could hear them long before I could see them. What a site! By the time I got my camera out and walked over to the vicinity, they were flying all over the place, taunting me to catch them if I could. They finally landed in this Mangrove Tree and this one perched up on top right nicely for me. Life bird # 343.
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that is a beautiful bird – great shot!
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Yes it is and thanks!
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How cool to see these pretty birds flying around. 🙂
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It was awesome! I will have a full post in the future. 😊
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a beautiful bird you found. You must be having a lot of fun in your adventures
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This adventure was in January before the world went into lockdown. We have gone on a few the past few weeks that have almost no one around. Yes, we have fun on all our adventures. 😊
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Great shot! Sure blends in very well with its surroundings. 😊
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Thanks. Yes are are difficult to get them to stay still long enough. I have a series that I shot in about 1 minute and then they were gone.
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They are taking over the world like pigeons, prettier though 🙂
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We don’t have them here in Jacksonville so we had to go find them down south near St. Petersburg.
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They’re already spreading north here in the UK, quite extraordinary how they have adapted here
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How unusual. They are a tropical bird. I guess they have adapted like the Canada Goose has here. 😊
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ah we have the latter too! They love London parks
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