Queensland comes to Wakey

[cromwell]

Last night MrsC heard a Peregrine falcon outside. She's heard it before. We think it is one of the breeding pair that are living on the roof of Wakefield Cathedral. Judith across the road has seen it too.
But this morning MrsC did get a bit of a surprise when she heard a racket outside and saw a large green parakeet being chased by magpies.
We think it must be a local cage bird that has escaped, but I do know that in Kirkby Steven near the Lake District there is a flock of the things.

[cromwell]

Eta It was an owl last night

[Workingman]

My mate, Andy, is a pest control assessor and about 15 years ago was returning from a job out past Bradford Golf Club. There in his headlights was a wallaby, just sat at the side of the road!

Apparently there was a group of about five or six in the area and nobody knew where they came from. They have gone now so I suspect that they were rounded up or, sadly, were not a viable breeding group.

These oddities do crop up from time to time.

[TheOstrich]

I remember there was a lot of debate a few years back about whether any of the London parakeet population had made it up to the West Midlands - it was resolved once and for all by this:

https://metro.co.uk/2014/01/11/cheeky-p ... s-4258814/

[Kaz]

Loads of parakeets living wild in Surrey these days!