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The 3 amigos
madamcoolpix

The 3 amigos (Myiopsitta monachus)

Well, here I am sharing again! o:) I have some recent stuff available and a few oldies to exhume too. ;) Just hope circumstances allow me to stay here and share them all

This is from a visit I paid to my sister a couple of months ago. Chuffed to have found a cooperative bunch of Monk Parakeets, they usually are warier than this. And Ive not posted a picture of one in ages, so there it goes! Cheers everybody!!! B (:
Habitat
Meadows with scattered trees
Location
El Pardo, outskirts of Madrid, C Spain
Date taken
5 March 2011
Scientific name
Myiopsitta monachus
Equipment used
Canon 50D+Sigma 50-500 (monopod, ISO 400, f/10, 1/800 s, +2/3 ev)
Three very sharp amigos,beautiful lighting and cold colours ! A superb image of these new spanish birds,Marian !
 
Great to see you posting agaoin Marian - and with this fabulous shot. I love it.
 
And about time too! The title is wrong though, I think there are probably 4 amigos here if they let you get that close. ;)

Wonderful capture of such exotic looking birds. Are they native to Spain?
 
o:) Thank you a million for your mega-kind comments, amigos, loved reading them, I feel like really sharing what I have to show when I see a response like this, wow, you all are so special!!! :bounce:

Ove and Adam, really these Parakeets are not native, they are scapees but many years ago they started scattered colonies and now they are quite well stablished in certain points. Even if they are not native I love them, they are great looking birds and I like when the small flocks dart around making noice... always a pleasure to watch, they cheer me up!!! o:)

More to come very soon (I had to disappear again for 3 days and I'm very late thanking you but hopefully things are back to normal now), cheers everybody!!! B :)
 
Hi Marian, welcome back, what an amazing image of these exotic birds, very clean and well composed.
They are increasing their numbers also in N. Italy but are still rather wary.

PS: by the way I'm leaving to Spain tomorrow, keeping fingers crossed about the weather hope to have something to post in the next weeks
 

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