“Parrots have flown the coop,” the headline in today’s Chron said. “After cypress felled, colorful birds are roosting on wires,” it continued.
Cecilia M. Vega, Chronicle Staff Writer, wrote,
If a sequel is made about the famous wild parrots of San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill, there’s a chance it may not have a happy ending.
Since one of their favorite trees was chopped down Monday, and two others may also share the same destiny, the roosting patterns of those feathered stars of a best-selling book and acclaimed documentary have been disrupted, and life just hasn’t been the same.
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All of which is a bunch of horse hooey, of course.
When the huge cypress came down last fall, the parrots stayed away for a while and then resumed flocking to the remaining cypresses when they weren’t flocking to other trees on the Hill.
This time? I wasn’t home during the day yesterday to check out where they were hanging (they go home somewhere — the Presidio, I think — to tuck in every afternoon), but parrots roosting on wires is not news. They roost on wires every day. Today? Well, I just heard them squawking outside and went to see where these poor psychologically-damaged birds were gathering, and spotted them …
… in the remaining cypresses!
They’re fine and not permanently psychologically damaged by it all after all.
Who could’ve guessed?!??