A friend took this photo recently near Golden Gardens, and I was so surprised to see wild parrots in my Ballard hood!

There were actually three in total, one pair and a single, and may be Cherry-Headed Conures.

According to Wikipedia, there is a wild flock that lives and flies between Maple Leaf and Seward Park, neither of which is very close to Golden Gardens.

Are they a part of that flock, I wonder?

A call to a local pet shop didn’t help. Ideas, anyone?

Rhonda Brown lives in Ballard and is the Urban Crop Circle Project Leader for Sustainable Ballard. Questions, comments, ideas? You can reach her at Rhonda@sustainableballard.org.