WATERVLIET ? It?s a long way from the tropics, but a pair of monk parakeets have set up housekeeping on a 21st Street utility pole between 2nd and 3rd avenues.
The 12-inch-tall bright green birds with grayish foreheads and chests have been around the area for about two weeks, according to neighborhood residents.
?I noticed them last Friday on my lunch break,? said Lisa Dennis , a pharmacist at Rite Aid and a resident of the area. ?The nest was half the size then.?
By Friday afternoon the elaborate twig structure appeared to be a few feet tall and wide.
Dennis also said she can hear a lot of chirping while she?s working, and speculates the parakeets could be laying eggs.
If she?s right, there could be more exotic birds in the area soon: Monk parakeets ? also called Quaker parrots or parakeets ? can lay up to 11 eggs in 24 days, according to the Bronx Zoo website.
On Friday, the Department of Environmental Conservation sent a biologist to look at the condition of the parakeets and the nest, according to Rick Georgeson , spokesperson for DEC.
?It?s fairly rare to see them around here,? said Georgeson. ?But they do typically nest on poles,? because of the warmth given off by power lines and lights.
?I?m a bit surprised that they?re here,? said Richard Guthrie , of New Baltimore, a retired DEC landscape architect and lifelong birdwatcher who writes the birding blog for the Times Union .
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