I hear owls more than I see them but once one flew straight over the road just above the front of our car as we were driving back home from the supermarket one night. The green woodpeckers too you hear more than you see, they make this weird laughing noise, and I think they mostly stay up in the woods but they do come in the gardens round here occasionally.

The macaw was very surreal because we (I was with my mum and my brother I think) heard it a long while before we finally found out what it was. It was initially sitting up on the roof of a house essentially yelling at the owner who was trying to coax it down. It ended up flying over into the cemetery and sitting up in a tree there for ages but I don't know what happened to it after that.