We also have some green parrot, but they don’t come to our roof, even if we like a lot
Suggestion to attract crow and parrot?
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try putting out peanuts in the shell!!
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For the crows, try putting out left over items from the kitchen. They will eat quite a few things so maybe try some variety in what you give them. In the Winter time, this can include fatty things such as any trimmiings from meat.
As for the green parrots (most likely to be Ring Necked Parakeets, by the way), they are granivores which means they mostly eat seed and grain based food.
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Thanks a lot I surely try 
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Have a friendly murder of crows is a dream of mine from years, I hope they found our leftovers good
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I am extremely impressed that you used the perfectly correct collective noun for them. Not many people know it is a ‘murder’ of crows but you obviously do!
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Rats, I thought I’d found a cool new nickname for you.
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No, no … birds!!! 
(I am sorry, I just HAD to)!
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You’re humorous side has been coming out more and more lately. I like it. I think you’re a really funny guy. Keep it up!
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Just asking, is this kind of twitcher related on the origin of the families.website? I cannot find the meaning.
Btw I LOVE collective nouns for animal, bit my language haven’t:(
Also, I’m Tien to the murder of crows for a lot of reason, but mainly for our first experience in the TTRPG.
We was a big group, working for the greatest publisher of Italy, Raven Distribution.
After the first sold out on an interview the host ask how we did the massacre, cause we shadow every rival.
I look her dead on the eye and tell: “do you know how its called, in English, a “stormo” or Raven:
A Murder.”
Then we go away xD
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I am not entirely certain but I would imagine the term ‘twitcher’ in relation to bird watching, comes from the activity of moving quickly (to twitch - such as you might with your muscles) from one place to another, in pursuit of rare birds.
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Crerigan. I have found this on searching where the term twitcher originated from
The term twitcher, sometimes misapplied as a synonym for birder, is reserved for those who travel long distances to see a rare bird that would then be ticked, or counted on a list. The term originated in the 1950s, when it was used to describe the nervous behaviour of Howard Medhurst, a British birdwatcher .
I hope this helps you.
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You beat me to it, which, these days, is not hard to do, at all, since I’m so far behind in my reading.
I found the same etymology for the word “twitcher”, with regards to bird watching.
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Thanks, I was so curious:)
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That ‘information’ was from Wikipedia, NOT always reliable…
Actually ‘twitching’ comes from comes from the story of two 1950s British birdwatchers going on birdwatching expeditions, where, in the cold weather they shivered or ‘twitched’. This ties in nicely with my previous (admittedly less confident) reference to the twitching of muscles.
Anyway, I will say no more on the subject because as I said before, I am not a ‘twitcher’ but I am a birdwatcher … 2 very different disciplines.
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I believe David that this is the post that you are referring to.
The phrase "twitchers " likely refers to the historical origins of the term “twitching” in birdwatching, which is associated with the jerky movements of someone excited about spotting a rare bird. Specifically, it references a story where birdwatchers, upon seeing a rare bird, would get off a motorcycle with excited, jerky movements, which led to the association of “twitching” with their birdwatching activities.
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Now after the news about birdwatchers and twitchers, here’s today’s weather.
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Yes nevermind gulls being there, that kind of weather might encourage ducks to take up residence in Hector and Marla’s garden!!!
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