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28/11/2016 15:10 - One green parrot type bird with with red bill in my Walkden garden apple tree tucking into a couple of Bramleys......Ring-necked parakeet no doubt...!

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Flock of 18 flew NE over Wythenshawe Park metro station at 4:10pm yesterday.

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Barry Collison


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Always see or hear Ring- necked Parakeets in Heaton Mersey Common every time I walk there. 



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Approximately 20 heading south at 07:30 this morning Lloyd St/Claremont Rd



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1 Flew over Manchester crematorium this afternoon at 3-10pm.

 



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Chris Harper


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14 in Chorlton Park this morning 



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Ian McKerchar


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52 birds flew out of Platt Fields Park at 4:30pm today (mainly as one flock with only a few stragglers), heading out to their nightly roost.

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6 over chorlton ees this afternoon.

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Tim Wilcox


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3 flew over Stretford Ees at 3pm this afternoon

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Shannon Llewellyn


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Three in Whitworth Park just.

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1 in my Bredbury garden just now feeding on sunflower hearts.

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2 over Hale heading N - 9.50



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Charlie Schouten


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At least 20 flew over Powerleague in Ardwick last night around 18:30.


Cheers,
Charlie



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Seen two while out running this morning on Old Hall Mill Lane, Leigh.

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4 over Leigh road in Boothstown at c. 6.25 on Wednesday evening. Very low over rooftops and heading southeast. Possibly the Tyldesley/leigh birds of recent months heading to a south Manchester roost?

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Chris Harper


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Seems to be a lot of movement this morning.  16 over Manchester college on Barlow Moot Road, 2 in Southern Cemetery, 1 each over Chorlton Park N Chorlton School. 



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Mark Whalley


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My first sighting, 3 individuals eating horse chestnuts in a tree in Chorlton-cum-Hardy Golf Club car park late Sunday evening



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Late news one in trees near Apple Wood Farm pub Chaddock Lane Astley Saturday 3rd sept.

nice bonus on the way to work!



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Charlie Schouten


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Watching Altrincham FC slide to yet another defeat on Saturday, and spotted a pair of ring-necked parakeets in the tree behind the Popular Side terrace at Moss Lane stadium.

 

Cheers,

Charlie

 



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Increased presence on the chorlton stretford borders. I'm just west of Longford park and one flew low down our road yesterday morning. A pair feeding in a pear tree just round the corner. I suspect there may be a roost in Longford park as there is a lot of toing and froing from there morning and evening. 

 



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Late report for 13/08

1feeding in willows on Block Lane in Chadderton, Oldham near the Freehold tram stop.

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Lizzie Forrester


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Hello again

I'm currently getting together all the nest sites people know of, current or old ones. If anyone knows of any nest sites, if you could private message me i'd really appreciate it 

thanks a lot



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pete berry wrote:


There,s a photo of a pair in trees on Garrett Lane Tydesley in our local free paper,the houseowner reckons he gets up to 6 on his garden feeders.First ones I've heard of in this area.




See the 'Tyldesley Loopline' thread Pete wink

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There,s a photo of a pair in trees on Garrett Lane Tydesley in our local free paper,the houseowner reckons he gets up to 6 on his garden feeders.First ones I've heard of in this area.

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Single over the leisure centre on Jacksons Lane Hazel Grove calling loudly at 10.04 today. Follows on from two seen on 13 July by Ted Ralph. 



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Chris Harper


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4 over Chorlton Park this morning



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Tony Darby


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Approximately 90 birds over my Rusholme house this evening at around 9.00PM heading from Platt Fields to their roost.
There were 2 main bunches, one comprisiing around 60 birds, which is the largest group I've seen flying from the pre-roost.

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3 in Southern Cemetery today at 11.30.

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Ted Ralph


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A couple have appeared in the gardens of Hazel Grove.Very vocal.



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Chris Harper


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4 over Traveller's Call pub in Bredbury at 07.15



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2 at Garret Lane, Astley today



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Chris Harper


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At least 3 birds around Chorlton Park and flying up Chorlton Brook at 7.30am



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Whilst doing the Breeding Bird Survey in Sale this morning there were at least four birds (poss eight) in the area of Priory Gardens and the playing fields off Broad Road, Sale

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Tim Wilcox wrote:

Lizo wrote:

Hi

I'm currently studying the Manchester parakeet population with Manchester Met Uni and Prof Stuart Marsden a specialist on the illegal trade of parrots in the tropics. 

The first of a few studies on the south Manchester parakeets will start with a nest cavity comparison of nuthatches and parakeets, species of tree used & height of nest cavity etc, for my Msc dissertation in conservation biology.

I've currently found about half of the nest cavities i need to run the study, I'd be really grateful if anyone is able to help me find cavities for this season, or share the location of ones they know, they are proving elusive. 

Thanks

Lizzie 



-- Edited by Lizo on Saturday 14th of May 2016 08:29:40 PM



I hope your professor is sufficiently conversant with Manchester's Ring-necked Parakeets to know that they have nothing whatsoever to do with any trade in parrot species and have been self-sustaining for well over 30 years. PM me with what exactly you are doing and I'm sure I will know who to contact or where to look provided this does not involve disruption of any breeding birds. NB Parakeets and Nuthatches can use holes just less than a FOOT apart!



Having mapped the available data for GM a couple of years ago now it would seem that they did in fact fluctuate quite dramatically prior to 2010(ish).
It has been proved genetically that populations across Europe and even inside the UK are from a number of different genetic sub groups (as in they are from wild populations from across their range) - it's therefore not unlikely that some of the re-establishments within the county were after wild flocks were bolstered with escaped birds.
This is just now becoming clear (and the work being published), there is a european working group studying affects of invasive parakeet species (Parrotnet), run by Hazel Jackson at the university of Kent, well worth following for those interested..

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Lizzie Forrester


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I've messaged you Tim, thanks 

 



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http://stuartmarsden.blogspot.co.uk

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Lizo wrote:

Hi

I'm currently studying the Manchester parakeet population with Manchester Met Uni and Prof Stuart Marsden a specialist on the illegal trade of parrots in the tropics. 

The first of a few studies on the south Manchester parakeets will start with a nest cavity comparison of nuthatches and parakeets, species of tree used & height of nest cavity etc, for my Msc dissertation in conservation biology.

I've currently found about half of the nest cavities i need to run the study, I'd be really grateful if anyone is able to help me find cavities for this season, or share the location of ones they know, they are proving elusive. 

Thanks

Lizzie 



-- Edited by Lizo on Saturday 14th of May 2016 08:29:40 PM



I hope your professor is sufficiently conversant with Manchester's Ring-necked Parakeets to know that they have nothing whatsoever to do with any trade in parrot species and have been self-sustaining for well over 30 years. PM me with what exactly you are doing and I'm sure I will know who to contact or where to look provided this does not involve disruption of any breeding birds. NB Parakeets and Nuthatches can use holes just less than a FOOT apart!

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Lizzie Forrester


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Hi

I'm currently studying the Manchester parakeet population with Manchester Met Uni and Prof Stuart Marsden a specialist on the illegal trade of parrots in the tropics. 

The first of a few studies on the south Manchester parakeets will start with a nest cavity comparison of nuthatches and parakeets, species of tree used & height of nest cavity etc, for my Msc dissertation in conservation biology.

I've currently found about half of the nest cavities i need to run the study, I'd be really grateful if anyone is able to help me find cavities for this season, or share the location of ones they know, they are proving elusive. 

Thanks

Lizzie 



-- Edited by Lizo on Saturday 14th of May 2016 08:29:40 PM

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Heard several in the Lime Avenue in Alexandra Park, Whalley Range on 20th April about 1pm.

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Chris Harper


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One over Elizabeth Slinger Road in West Didsbury at 7.40



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1 calling flying over the river at Parrs Wood, heading across the motorway, at about 1830. Seemed to drop in somewhere around the Bupa Hospital.

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3 Ring-necked Parakeets in Hulme this morning (first I've seen here). Seen at 9.15am in a tree close to the Epping Walk footbridge (at the end of the bridge close to Martenscroft nursery, where Upper Medlock Street meets Poynton Street)

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Late post: 2 Ring Necked Parakeets over Chorlton tram stop at 8:50 am

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Lawrence Hindley


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5x Ring Necked Parakeets flying over Hart Road next to Platt fields Park 7.00am

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Single Parakeet seen heading North in Hale, Wednesday 24th.



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Tim Wilcox


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Late post for yesterday. 36 flew north seen from my house in Moss Side at 4.52-4.58pm

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Andy Stobirski


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I now see 5 to 10 parakeets daily, a year ago it was one or two in a week. They're attracted to my neighbour's apple tree which still has apples on it, and every morning they have a noisy breakfast.

I live in Whalley Range, right next to the Fallowfield Loop cycle track.

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Didsbury toc h rugby club 30/1 14:15-16:15

8 ring necked parakeets noisliy flying about perching in trees and bushes feeding on leaf buds seemed like 4 pairs by ringed neck markings 



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6 Ring-necked Parakeets in black poplars in Alkrington Woods at 2.15pm. Seen later at 2.45 near the old nature reserve next to Alkrington Hall.

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Heaton Mersey Common birds are going strong. At least 8 the area and a lot of activity around last year's nest hole.



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