Parakeets

Green Parakeets have been visiting our garden all year. They first appeared last autumn eating the berries from our yew tree.
I love to watch them BUT in the past couple of days they have totally destroyed my runner beans and french beans - eaten all the flowers and snapped the stalks. Has anyone else has problems with these birds? Any advice for next year please?

 

A big flock of them roosts in the park near me and as you say they are fun to watch - I especially like to see them clambering around on the fencing of the football pitch as if it was a big gym frame!

I am sorry about your runner beans. Think you can only do the same as for any other birds - protect the plants by netting them, or prevent the parakeets from settling by scaring them away. Somehow I doubt they would be deterred by a scarecrow or a plastic bird of prey - they always seem rather clever birds to me, like parrots - but something shiny that moves around might do the trick. Google and you will find lots of ideas for doing this by reworking and stringing up old CDs/ plastic bottles/ cans.

 

Thank you for your advice. I am in the Midlands and the Parakeets have only recently arrived here.
I feed them in the garden but the problem is in our allotment (attached to the garden) and I didn’t think to feed them down there! I’ll give this a try. Thanks again.

 

Lots of ideas here - thank you. I’ll start digging out old CDs.