Monday, January 3, 2022

Parakeets

 

Rose-ringed parakeet (Psittacula krameri) - female and a juvenile, judging by their lack of the rose-ring.




The one on the right was feeding the scruffy one on the left


Rose-ringed parakeet
but they were not ringed,
mother and chick, my gaze they meet.

Everyday they screech and whizz by
a green flypast,
red strong beak, my oh my.

Excitable and grumpy, scrumpy and plumpy,
they gather together
on badam tree, colours funky.




Bulbuls and munias, barbets I see
mynahs and crows, more than twenty three.
And now a peacock has been added to the mix
My balcony birding
gives me quite a kick and a fix!

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