The San Francisco Citizen

When they’re not eating flowers, the Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill like to fly around San Francisco in big flocks.

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Wild parrots above the KPIX-TV building on Battery Street and also near 202 Green Street, where Philo T. Farnsworth invented television a while back. 

Some people are afraid of these red masked conures, but others would like them to become the state bird of California instead of the Valley Quail. We have some quail in San Francisco as well, but not all that many.

Will the Parrot cell phone-accessory company be able to change our state bird from quail to parrot?

Only Time Will Tell.

San Francisco’s famous wild parrots have spread out a bit lately, so they’re easier to spot these days.

Watch them eating springtime blossoms (cherry? plum?). You can listen to them also. And of course, you can read all about them.

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Mmmmm…, flowers.

Hanami - it’s all the rage. It involves going to the park and looking at blossoming cherry trees. Maybe you bring a picnic.

When Sony filmed part of Memiors of a Geisha in Golden Gate Park during January a few years back, they had to bring in fake blossoms. But you can see the real thing right now and for a little while longer.  

Cherry tree fever - catch it!

These cherry trees in Japantown are getting an early start on Spring.

Spring comes to California tonight at 10:48 PM Pacific Daylight Time. Those of you on the East Coast will need to wait until tomorrow to celebrate the end of winter. Enjoy