I've just seen 10 parakeets flying wild!

[Callie]

I had a dream about parakeets last night I was walking somewhere with my boss and we saw two sat on a fence - we went over to see them closer and they were very cute with little pink cheeks. There were two and they were a couple, we had a little chat with them about where they lived and how they would survive the winter. I fed one a cherry I found in my pocket. Nice dream if a bit random.

 

[tobyjug]

Muntjac - that name's ace - I bet it's the raviest animal on the planet

They taste pretty good as well.

 

[guinnessdrinker]

They taste pretty good as well.

they're quite small. can't be that much meat on them. have you actually eaten a muntjac?

 

[Loki]

We spotted a pair of parakeets on Streatham Common - apparantly there are at least five breeding pairs there.

 

[guinnessdrinker]

We spotted a pair of parakeets on Streatham Common - apparantly there are at least five breeding pairs there.

perhaps I should start looking in Burgess Park.

 

[Callie]

they're quite small. can't be that much meat on them. have you actually eaten a muntjac?

I saw it for sale at a farmers market before xmas.

Oh and Ive seen parakeets in Sutton twice now. Only ever two of them though and the sightings were about 6 months apart. I see them more frequently if Im out Kingston way, they seem to like the Thames

 

[lizzieloo]

muntjac deers a tiny species of chinese deers arounds Herts ssomewhere.

There are loads in and around Woburn. That's where they are from in this country according to this.

http://www.britishdeersociety.co.uk/downloads/muntjac.pdf

There are also Chinese Water deer about

http://www.britishdeersociety.co.uk/downloads/cwd.pdf

Well I never did!

 

[guinnessdrinker]

I saw it for sale at a farmers market before xmas.

hmm, interesting, where was that? [starts warming up oven]

 

[Callie]

Wallington, second saturday of the month, so there should be one this weekend although they still have the 2005 dates up on the council website.

Its fairly easy to get to from Balham overland station, if thats near you?

 

[tobyjug]

they're quite small. can't be that much meat on them. have you actually eaten a muntjac?

Yes they were very common where I used to live in Buckinghamshire and often ended up as roadkill.

 

[guinnessdrinker]

Yes they were very common where I used to live in Buckinghamshire and often ended up as roadkill.

go on, give us a recipe. what do they taste like?

 

[tobyjug]

go on, give us a recipe. what do they taste like?

Venison.