Last May I looked out my kitchen window and I saw this green bird perched on our bird feeder. That was very unusual, so much so that I doubted I’d ever see that again.

Wrong, pigeon-breath!

He or another of his kind appeared again. More than that, if you look at the top right, the head of another like him is visible as he’s flying toward the feeder. If I’d known I might have been able to wait a millisecond longer and I could have caught him in full flight.

The picture’s a little fuzzy because I was taking it through glass and I might have shaken the camera a little, too.

Then parakeet number two landed and settled down for some breakfast as well.

Looking at the necks of these birds I think last year’s conclusion that they are Rose-ringed parakeets is correct. They’re not indigenous to Hawai’i — no parrots or parakeets are. But there’s apparently a stable population here, probably a result of introduced pets that have been either released or escaped. They were pictured in a 2013 Honolulu Magazine article about birds which can be seen in urban Honolulu, and that bird resembles the ones in my photos very much.