A company of monk parrots, Sunset Park, Brooklyn. 4/17/09
These parrots have been cropping up in my thoughts a lot lately. I was intrigued since their mention in Netherland, but hadn’t given much thought to seeking them out. Last week, I saw an old friend and off-handedly mentioned something about the parrots. She left me a voicemail the next day suggesting a parrot-finding expedition.
We haven’t yet embarked upon said expedition, but I saw this NYT article on Friday. I decided that afternoon to take a bike ride down to Sunset Park (see picture above). Stopped at a traffic light on hellish, under-construction 5th Ave., I noticed an inordinate amount of squawking going on somewhere nearby. I looked up into the trees on the Greenwood Cemetery side of the street and saw this company of famous monk parrots.
Note: be sure to click on the picture to enlarge.
