Olive breasted Parakeets :The return of the Green Parrot

Once upon a time, when we still read bedtime stories with our children, one of the favourites was "But where is the green parrot?" by Wanda and Thomas Zacharias. Sadly, I believe it is out of print. But the green parrot lives on, in the form of the parakeets that come and roost some evenings in the tree just outside our garden.

These were the first parrots we saw in Belize, but for a couple of weeks we just saw small flocks of them rushing by. Then last week, on April 18th, they came and roosted in the tree. We were delighted - and we hope you like the pictures.


Then later on, as the sun went down at about 6.30pm, more and more parakeets arrived, and the moon rose behind the tree.