Posts Tagged ‘red masked’
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015
Your pet-store Cherry-Headed Conures certainly are handsome animules (see below), but our Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill don’t really belong in Frisco, not really.
So the Hooded Oriole takes the crown
Here’s one [oh, if you want to add your comment to all the others, use this link] at Golden Gate Park’s Stow Lake from, IDK, a decade ago? This male has a blush of orange, as is typical for this time of year – they generally have more of a pure yellow color at other times:
Here’s an effort from Bob Gunderson‘s Dust Trombone from a few years back – dese boids are all over the place dese days, so enjoy them while they last.
Now here are your beauty champs from the 415’s Import Division:
A friendly pair in the Presidio.
They love to fly…
and eat flowers.
Look to the skies…
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Thursday, September 13th, 2012
Back in the day down there betwixt San Francisco’s Financial District and the Golden Gateway Apartments, tourists would come along and just hold their hands out, with astonishing results.
Wild parrots looking for a handout – via Gwen in a great capture from 2007, before The Law:
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Ah mem’ries;
First it was all like this (Yes, this is the view you’ll get of the 415’s famous wild parrots from our Filbert Steps.)
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
But now it’s all like this. (Gee, should I get a Chinese character inked on my Europid skin and be a laughingstock for the rest of my life or should I get something cool like this instead? Mmmm, decisions, decisions…)
Wow! That’s a good one, Deanna Wardin of Tattoo Boogaloo.
That’s the best tattoo I’ve seen in the 415.
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill were made famous a few years back by the movie with the same name. Get the new Special Two-Disc Collector’s Edition today, why don’t you?
A friendly pair in the Presidio. Click to expand:
They love to fly…
and eat flowers.
Look to the Skies for Signs and Wonders…
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
Believe it or not, this is a color photograph of the Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill.
A view from the Financial from a few days back:
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But leave us remember more colorful San Francisco scenes…
First it was all like this (Yes, this is the view you’ll get of the 415’s famous wild parrots from our Filbert Steps.)
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill – Click to expand
But now it’s all like this. (Gee, should I get a Chinese character inked on my Europid skin and be a laughingstock for the rest of my life or should I get something cool like this instead? Mmmm, decisions, decisions…)
Wow! That’s a good one, Deanna Wardin of Tattoo Boogaloo.
[UPDATE: OMG, OMG, it’s their One Year Anniversary on July 30th, 2011 – Joyeux anniversaire, Tattoo du Boogaloo! All the deets.]
That’s the best tattoo I’ve seen in the 415.
Ever more deets, after the jump
(more…)
Tags:Animals, Arinae, bittner, blossom, board, boogaloo, boogaloo tattoo, cherry, Cherry-headed, conure, Conures, deanna waedin, feeding, financial district, flock, flowering, flying, green, hill, mark, mating, north beach, parakeet, park, parrot, plum, red, red masked, San Francisco, supervisors, tattoo, tattoo boogaloo, telegraph, tree, waterfront, wild, wild parrots
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Friday, July 15th, 2011
[UPDATE: OMG, OMG, it’s their One Year Anniversary on July 30th, 2011 – Joyeux anniversaire, Tattoo du Boogaloo! All the deets.]
First it was all like this (Yes, this is the view you’ll get of the 415’s famous wild parrots from our Filbert Steps.)
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill – Click to expand
But now it’s all like this. (Gee, should I get a Chinese character inked on my Europid skin and be a laughingstock for the rest of my life or should I get something cool like this instead? Mmmm, decisions, decisions…)
Wow! That’s a good one, Deanna Wardin of Tattoo Boogaloo.
That’s the best tattoo I’ve seen in the 415.
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill were made famous a few years back by the movie with the same name. Get the new Special Two-Disc Collector’s Edition today, why don’t you?
A friendly pair in the Presidio. Click to expand:
They love to fly…
and eat flowers.
Look to the skies…
Tags:Animals, Arinae, bittner, blossom, board, boogaloo, boogaloo tattoo, cherry, Cherry-headed, conure, Conures, deanna waedin, feeding, financial district, flock, flowering, flying, green, hill, mark, mating, north beach, parakeet, park, parrot, plum, red, red masked, San Francisco, supervisors, tattoo, tattoo boogaloo, telegraph, tree, waterfront, wild, wild parrots
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Monday, April 4th, 2011
Could be.
These South American parrots should feel right at home in a south-of-the-Equator tree, non?
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Will their chicks soon join the flock in Telegraph Hill?
Or maybe they’ll just end up hanging out in Sue Bierman Park eating flowers:
It will be one or the other, probably…
Tags:Animals, Arinae, bittner, blossom, cherry, Cherry-headed, collector's edition, conure, Conures, dvd, feeding, flock, flowering, green, hill, irving, judy, mark, mating, parakeet, parrot, parrots, red, red masked, San Francisco, telegraph, tree, waterfront, wild, wild parrots
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Just as you could see Mark Bittner feeding wild parrots in the movie Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, you can see people going out of their way to feed wild pigeons on Masonic Avenue. They’re just like the feral cat feeders of Golden Gate Park.
Time for the daily sidewalk feeding:
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Maybe that’s why we have so many pigeons around town.
Tags:Animals, ave, avenue, birds, bittner, blossom, cherry, Cherry-headed, collector's edition, conure, feeding, green, hill, mark, mating, parakeet, parrot, parrots, pigeons, red, red masked, San Francisco, sidewalk, telegraph, tree, wild, wild parrots
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill were made famous a few years back by the movie with the same name. Get the new Special Two-Disc Collector’s Edition today, why don’t you?
A friendly pair in the Presidio. Click to expand:
They love to fly…
and eat flowers.
Look to the skies…
Tags:Animals, Arinae, bittner, blossom, board, cherry, Cherry-headed, conure, Conures, feeding, financial district, flock, flowering, green, hill, mark, mating, parakeet, park, parrot, parrots, plum, red, red masked, San Francisco, supervisors, telegraph, tree, waterfront, wild, wild parrots
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Saturday, December 13th, 2008
It used to be that the Wild Parrots of San Francisco kept mostly to the area around Telegraph Hill (as you can see here on the two-DVD Collector’s Edition of the famous movie, just released).
But nowadays, they roam farther afield, giving you more chances to see (and hear) these happy looking birds. Keep looking up to the sky or down in the trees eating plum flowers – you’ll spot them eventually)
Above S.F. Click to expand:
Tags:Animals, Arinae, bittner, blossom, cherry, Cherry-headed, collector's edition, conure, Conures, dvd, feeding, flock, flowering, green, hill, irving, judy, mark, mating, parakeet, parrot, red, red masked, San Francisco, telegraph, tree, waterfront, wild, wild parrots
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
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.
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
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.
Click to expand. (With your help, we can fight moiré):
Mmmmm…, flowers.
Tags:Animals, Arinae, bittner, blossom, board, cherry, Cherry-headed, conure, Conures, feeding, financial district, flock, flowering, green, hill, mark, mating, parakeet, park, parrot, plum, red, red masked, San Francisco, supervisors, telegraph, tree, waterfront, wild, wild parrots
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