My wife and I travelled to Surrey yesterday for a family visit.  I always try to keep my eyes open for any photo opportunities wherever I go and I usually find something interesting in "leafy" Surrey. Rinknecked Parakeets are a very noticeable bird in that part of the world, noisy and of course colourful, you can hardly miss them.   They are thought to be the product of escaped birds but there is also a theory that that they have spread to the UK naturally but that is open to deabate and probably wouldn't stand up to scrutiny.  With their bright plumage and exotic looks you would be wrong to think that they are a tropical bird but they are found in the colder higher regions of Northern India where the climate is more like ours, that is wet and temperate.  They are quite at home here in the UK and other European Cities.  They breed in small colonies and are hole nesters. I happen to think that they are an amazing, attractive and gorgeous spectacle and to see a small group feeding on a garden feeder behind Crossy's Hardware Shop in Hinchly Wood was a real treat (and a great photo opportunity).

I took lots of pictures, trying to get them "in-flight" and managed to get some amazing pictures of their graceful plumage.