On Feb 24, 5:20*pm, David Chapman wrote:

*Parakeets may be pretty birds to look at occasionally but when you
regularly get LOTS of them sitting in the trees, squawking loudly, and
dropping 'droppings', as they do in this South East London area, ones
benevolent attitude towards an otherwise attractive bird definitely
starts to harden.

Horrible things. They seemed to drop off a bit last year here (SE14)
but this winter will done them a favour.