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@AlieOxon - Certainly do remember them - I have them all on CD now...

Yes, we have Lorikeets, Rosellas, big green parrots, and noisy cockatoos. One day my son, who was still at high school, rescued a beautiful bright green Lorikeet with an injured wing and nursed it back to health.

Rosella is the name of a parrot, and also of a fruit. My workmate used to make and sell Rosella jam, and just could not see the funny side when I insisted on calling it parrot jam.

Your Lorikeet sounds lovely inthefields

Joan
Awww ....do you have Lorikeets. We had an absolute darling when we were in NZ. The first thing he learned to say was "where's my tea"!!

We were worried about jackdaws moving into our disused bedroom chimney when they were ousted from a neighbours, so had cowls fitted to both chimneys. Now no birds can sit on them so no pigeon cooing or poo hitting the grate and bouncing into the hearth and no fear of a bird becoming trapped behind the blocked up bedroom fireplace.

Joan I have two of your Aussie parrots, aka Budgies, in my living room. Noisy beggars they are too! Bless!

Sook I have noticed the increase in Jackdaws here. As you know I am only slightly Northeast of you.
They have only appeared over the last few years. Are their any ornithology buffs out there who might offer an explanation?

There must have been an ecological niche empty somewhere. ?Possibly less Magpies in my garden recently.

Never mind pigeons - a tree full of parrots outside your lounge window is deafening. My husband bought a rifle and shot it into the air in their direction - after a couple of times of this, they migrated to a tree in the nearby catholic presbytery garden. The best bit was that the priest was a dreadful, nasty man, and he was furious about the parrots!

We have since moved, and lovely little green frogs are our noisiest wildlife, which is just as well as we had to let the authorities buy back our rifle, when new gun laws came into effect after the Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania.

We do have plenty of birds, including kookuburras, but no noise that goes on and on and on.

Oh yes! And I still have the two 10" LPs - remember them?

The wonderful Tom Lehrer - pianist and vocalist - and mathematician.

Does anybody remember "Poisoning pigeons in the park"? Who was the singer?

i was born in Cheshire and am now about as far from the sea as you can get in Britain.....hear occasional seagulls in winter.
I miss them too.

anno born and bred on the Wirral peninsula I really miss the seagulls cry. Jackdaws seem to be on the increase in my corner of Cheshire.

Living well inland, as I do, I wouldn't mind hearing a seagull again, having been brought up yards from the sea! Jackdaws are rife here and I had to have some evicted from my chimney a few years ago. They'd been dropping stuff down to try to find a ledge to nest on - the sweep found, among the moss, turf and stones, a four inch metal bolt. I now have a bird guard.

I do remember the gulls in Brighton.... they seemed to keep up their racket ALL night when I was there!

You have my sympathy..same problem,and we also have jackdaws....but I agree not as bad as the gulls in Brighton where D lives

Sadly, I haven't heard a cuckoo in this neck of the woods for several years. B****y pigeons looking like Hercules Aircraft (Fat Alberts) aplenty.

Lucky you shysal, not heard a cuckoo this year yet. We do have a couple of wood pidgeons which like to sit on the chimney; their 'music' echoes down throughout the house.

number my daughter had pigeons perching on top of her chimney, until one day with a great whoosh a huge pile of pigeon pooh landed on the floor (the chimney was not in use), pigeon pooh dust and matter swirling everywhere. They were horrified and it was a helluva cleaning up job to do. I was bit worried because I thought of all the diseases she could be inhaling whilst cleaning, told her to wear a mask and seek specialist advice! It stank too of course.

The sad thing is that I think pigeons also mate for life and they can't help it that they are the "bird underclass". We have pigeons nesting under the rail bridge I walk under each day and they make a terrible mess, there's always 'pigeon road kill' to avoid on the sidewalks, and the rail company has fought a losing battle trying to control or dissuade them for 10 years now. My observation is that they are extremely tenacious.

Get a sparrow hawk . A neighbour has three dovecotes and nearly every morning there is a circle of feathers where breakfast has been caught. The dovecote food attracts pigeons and she always has a flock of pigeons sitting on her roof.

Pigeons are better than ruddy Seagulls. Squawking beggers.

Sometimes I could swear that we have pigeons living in our chimney! In reality, they`re just perched on top, but can be fairly noisy at times. I know they are considered to be vermin, and a health hazard, but bit`s not their fault, and I do rather like them.

Are pigeons on the increase? They always seem to be just about to mate every time I look out of the window, flap, flap, flap in mid air.

pigeon pie is delicious

Dawn chorus is nice, cuckoos are nice, but PIGEONS virtuslly on your window sill are NOT

I hear a cuckoo at 4.30 each morning, but love it. At least it is only for a few weeks of the year! I am usually awake at that time anyway.