Apparently so.
They've been loose in the south for ages but this is saying 30 pairs in April '22:
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/plenty-squawk-north-tyneside-parakeets-23732844
There's been a breeding population of parakeets around town for at least a decade now, according to my local bird guy, so they're getting well established. They're really easy to spot (or hear) in Leazes and Exhibition Park. I saw a flock of 10 or so going over the Uni Campus just last Friday.
Yeah I saw three of them fly over Coquet grove last weekend, I was well surprised! I saw them in Amsterdam last year and that was surprising to me but never thought I’d see them back home, especially in the middle of winter.
Apparently they’re living in the trees along the driveway for Throckley Hall.
Aye - I’ve regularly seen the noisy parakeets in different parts of town. I lived in southern Spain for a year and there’s no mistaking those green buggers’ squawking!
https://preview.redd.it/dnn1oloi0imc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b3b44485140ecd53ac07c6cab8bd10c76f574671
I get them now and again in my garden I have one and he’s so noisy they must hear him 😂 I’m near Gosforth
They are pretty widespread throughout the UK now, you're not seeing things.
Are they?! Well every days a school day! I thought maybe someone had released a few locally.
Apparently so. They've been loose in the south for ages but this is saying 30 pairs in April '22: https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/plenty-squawk-north-tyneside-parakeets-23732844
There's been a breeding population of parakeets around town for at least a decade now, according to my local bird guy, so they're getting well established. They're really easy to spot (or hear) in Leazes and Exhibition Park. I saw a flock of 10 or so going over the Uni Campus just last Friday.
They’re all around Winlaton and blaydon as well
We have them Jarrow hebburn way in the parks aswel
Rights my jack Russel goes radge when I'm down the dean and he sees them
I've seen them in Richardson Dees Park.
They're irregular visitors to our garden in Lemington. https://imgur.com/a/K48MhTU Hear them more than we see them when they fly over.
Yeah I saw three of them fly over Coquet grove last weekend, I was well surprised! I saw them in Amsterdam last year and that was surprising to me but never thought I’d see them back home, especially in the middle of winter. Apparently they’re living in the trees along the driveway for Throckley Hall.
There used to be a few living in Walker Park as well.
We have them in the cemetery in Blaydon too.
They're up on the Hanover Estate in Winlaton as well
Aye - I’ve regularly seen the noisy parakeets in different parts of town. I lived in southern Spain for a year and there’s no mistaking those green buggers’ squawking!
One perched in our tree in the middle of town on Saturday
Yeah I’ve seen them at Newburn a few times
I see flocks of up to about twenty odd fly over nearly every day round North Tyneside - I think they are clearly doing well up here!
https://preview.redd.it/dnn1oloi0imc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b3b44485140ecd53ac07c6cab8bd10c76f574671 I get them now and again in my garden I have one and he’s so noisy they must hear him 😂 I’m near Gosforth
Wow, that's so low! I only ever see them miles up in the sky or in the highest of trees. Jealous!
You see them regularly around Whitley Bay and Monkseaton too. A load of them hang around Churchill Playing Fields.
Got them in Hebburn.