Parakeets

Arriving at school last week, still half asleep from the painfully long commute out to the desert, I was awakened by a harsh metalllic squawk coming from the trees/rubbish pile in front of the school. Turns out UAE has a sizable population of Rose-ringed Parakeets. These beauties are native to India, but have suprisingly established non-migrating feral populations all over the world (USA, Europe, Middle East). A most welcome sight in the scorched earth drabness of the desert.