Is this unusual?

[kro]

Ploughing through some photos from earlier in the year, I got to this one of the tree outside our flat (third floor, London outskirts). A slightly drab day was livened up by looking outside the window and seeing this - one "feral pigeon", one parakeet, one greenfinch and one starling, all happily sharing the tree. Is this normal or should I have been astounded by it? Any similar stories welcomed

[aeshna5]

I don't think it's a particularly unusual selection as all the species are common around London.

[beebeautiful]

What a fantastic sight that must have been. I would have been astounded to have seen it, but I don't live in London, so I don't think of parakeets as being a normal sighting
Hope you've started a thread for people to post unusual animal sightings

[Fieldfare95]

Great picture however unusual it is
Btw, are you sure thats not a wood pigeon?

[Gill Catton]

Its not bad for a single tree bird list!! Its perhaps not 'astounding' but it is the kind of thing that if it had happened would have me wondering if I'd ever see more species in a single tree and start keeping a sort of personal best list!!

but then I can be quite strange!

[kro]

Thanks all. I think you're right about the woodpigeon. I'm sure I have seen that many different species in one tree before, and I do know they're all very common visitors to the area (we also regularly get, for example, pigeons, starlings, crows and goldfinches in that tree together). I think what really struck me as odd was that there was only one of each as opposed to a pair or small flock. I'll keep trying and one day I'll get the one of an osprey, a hoopoe, a bee-eater and a flamingo that I'm aiming for

[beebeautiful]

Originally Posted by kro

I'll keep trying and one day I'll get the one of an osprey, a hoopoe, a bee-eater and a flamingo that I'm aiming for

Good luck with that