Brooklyn parrots!

It was shaping up to be a rather dreary Monday until I received this lovely link in my inbox...



...and was reminded that a flock of wild parrots roams Brooklyn. Rock!

I've spotted the parrots myself, while taking a Halloween tour of Greenwood Cemetery a couple years ago. There are a few that nest in the big Gothic arch there. Our cemetery tour guide pointed them out and related the prevailing parrot legend: a shipment of the birds arrived at JFK, they escaped, and the rest is history.

Anyway, excellent Brooklyn lore website.