Photo by Julia Talcott-Fuller, taken near Union & Montgomery in San Francisco.

The little guy on top is one of the Parrots of Telegraph Hill.   That means he’s an Aratinga erythrogenys and his ancestors hailed from northwestern South America.  Now they hail mostly from northeastern San Francisco.

It’s assumed this young parrot (he has little of the mature birds’ red) was tasting the offering to see if the large shining object was a new fruit-flavored delectation, or simply a hillock next his native Telegraph Hill.

The large, smiley creature on the bottom is Tom Duane who assures me that he fed the parrot plenty of morsels legally.  And only from his hand, not his pate.  In San Francisco it’s illegal to feed the parrots in  city parks.  This, of course, has led to numerous private feeding stations in what’s rapidly becoming Parrotville, USA.

When Tom’s not acting as parrot perch pro tempore he’s a world class cartographic artist.  See his stuff here.