Parrots in The Palisades Bowl

We’ve had a flock of Amazon parrots or Black Hoodies

living in the park for a number of years. They are drawn

here to the Kumquats fruit trees that are growing in our

park. In this photo you can see a couple of them sitting

in the top of one of the Kumquat trees across from my

studio. We see the flock pretty regularly as they fly in

for the fruit. Interestingly they are originally from the

southwestern Brazil to northern Argentina area of

South America. Somehow they slipped by immigration

and are living illegally here – harvesting the kumquat

crops. We’ve called immigration a couple of times but

they have refused to come out saying they don’t have

the manpower to enforce their illegal activity.