Animal Report No. 1: Amy e-mailed us this morning about a stray cat.
Found a friendly black cat wandering with a short tail at 65th and Ravenna, near the I-5 exit. He’s now at Animal Talk Rescue. Know this cat? Call us. 206.526.1558
Animal Report No. 2: The Scarlet-fronted Parakeets of Maple Leaf are back. That’s the flock that migrates between here and Seward Park every year. They were spotted (or, more likely, heard) at about 9 a.m on Monday, Feb. 7, at Northeast 90th Street and 12th Avenue Northeast, according to a note left on the Maple Leaf Dog Oasis white board.
Melody, parrots and parakeets are really the same things, but the smaller ones with longer tails are usually called parakeets. There is a lot of slop in that; they’re all called parrots in Australia. The official name of this one is Scarlet-fronted Parakeet, but members of this group of New World tropical species are also called “conures.”
Another Eric, are you sure you saw 20 of them? In all the years they have been coming to this neighborhood, there has never been more than a dozen, and that number has declined in recent years to just a few. If you saw that many, their reproductive output just went off the scale.
“The cat’s owners don’t want him back.”
So the cat lovers dumped the family feline? Isn’t there a law against abandoning your pets? Perhaps they should be on the hook for some of the expenses related to boarding and adopting out the kitty.
The cat’s owners don’t want him back. He will be up for adoption tonight, along with lots of other kittens and cats.
I thought they were parrots? I saw them on 12Ave NE at 91st.
I’m glad to hear the pets are getting returned.
We’re on 95th and haven’t seen them in years. Please ask the lovely birds to come for a visit!
The cat had a microchip that was registered to Animal Talk. They are caring for it until the owner can be contacted.
How long has this flock been in existance? I rememeber seeing them picking at a neighbors sunflowers several years ago.
I think the parakeets have been around for a while already. My daughter and I saw ~20 of the them on our neighbor’s roof a month ago.