by The poster formerly known as 'The Poster Formerly Known as Nina
Oct 6, 2008 at 11:12 AM
Pete L wrote:
> This morning I watched a stork flying past my window. It was
> surrounded by squawking parrakeets. The stork flew on and was then
> swarmed with crows and seagulls. They were obviously trying to chase
> the stork away.
>
> Anybody an idea of what was was going on? Why should smaller birds see
> off a stork and are storks any great threat to other birds? I live in
> Cliftonville, just next to Margate, Kent, UK. We have quite a large
> colony of parrakeets here who have lived in the local park for about
> 30 years now.
What kind of parakeets? We have the same thing here is Northern IL,
USA. I have a colony of Monk parakeets 5 or 6 couples strong which love
to feed at my feeder.
