Buzzard over ED

[Tarot]

There are two lime green long tailed parrots flying around the North cross road area,very noisy birds.

Did hear a while back that there were some peregrine Falcons nesting in London.

We did have a Heron land in the garden once,it looked very tired and suddenly every local bird it seemed flew down

and attacked it,causing it to fly off,at least it had a drink.

The largest bird I saw was a giant eagle owl, a man had on a chain in LL Lane, beautiful creature.

[Sue]

Tarot Wrote:

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> There are two lime green long tailed parrots

> flying around the North cross road area,very noisy

> birds.

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There are loads of these around the whole ED area, you cannot go to Peckham Rye park without seeing several, or at least hearing them!

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> Did hear a while back that there were some

> peregrine Falcons nesting in London.

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They were nesting on the chimney of Tate Modern, I don't think they are there any more.

The RSPB used to have a stall at the bottom where you could look through binoculars to see them.

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> The largest bird I saw was a giant eagle owl, a

> man had on a chain in LL Lane, beautiful creature.

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I have a photo of a Giant Owl taken in a bird sanctuary in India, I think it was Bharatpur. Not sure of the exact species but we were told it was the largest owl in the world. It certainly looks extremely big compared to the tree :))

Very sad to hear of a wild bird chained up in Lordship Lane, though.

[Tarot]

Well Sue I dont think it was actually chained up. maybe some leather thong type leash on the mans arm, he drew quite a crowd opposite the old co-op place.

It was a very large bird, around three feet high, the most lovely fawny colours possible perhaps other people remember it.

I wished i,d had my camera at the time.

Maybe he visited a school in the area with his owl.

Talking of owls ,are there any to be seen in E.D.