- Jan 13, 2019
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Forever in my heart. Sunny the Corella
Hello everyone!
Thought I’d join as I’m a new bird ‘owner’ and love advice to make Sunny as happpy and healthy as possible!
Soo here is our story. On the 8th of December we found Sunny in the road, there has been a few very windy nights before hand so we are guessing he blew out the best maybe, almost ready to leave but hadn’t quite learnt how to fly. He was also rather skinny like he’d been wondering around lost for a couple of days perhaps. We are unsure but he would have certainly been squashed by a car, eaten by a fox, snake or picked up by an eagle if he’s been left there.
So I took him on, thinking it would just be a week of getting his energy back up with good food and rest and then be released quite soon.
The first day he was obviously rather shy of me, but I just let him be and didn’t disturb him as he’d gone through enough stress and it was a hot day.
The next morning I offered him some apple..that’s it, we became best friends
Once he started eating and learnt how to eat seed properly without just de shelling and then dropping it he became much better in his brightness. He quite quickly learnt to climb onto my hand to be let out the cage. We let him walk around the small 2 roomed cottage we currently live in ( blinds pulled down etc).
I’d like to get him out as much as possible as it’s not fair for him especially being wild to be cooped up. After about a week he’d sit on my shoulder and as I knew he couldn’t fly well, more than just a couple of flaps then flop to the ground. I’d take him for a walk outside and he’d sit on my shoulder while I fed the horses. A few more days later I thought I’d do another test flight, knowing he wouldn’t manage to do much.. but to my complete surprise he managed to fly slightly up for the first time!! He fly into a tree and got stuck!! By the time I got him down he was exhausted. Something was wrong with him
Straight away as he couldn’t stand up, I felt awful. I thought I’d used up all his last reserves and now had no more energy to cope. I just made him as comfortable as possible sitting him in the bottom of the cage with towels to keep him warm. I didn’t expect him to last the night, I was so upset.
So as you can imagine I was so pleased and surprised that he was still with us in the morning. I syringed fed him sugar water and critical care for a couple of days until I suddenly noticed that one of his feet wasn’t gripping at all! I realised straight away that he must have injured it in the tree, I couldn’t feel a break so gathered it was dislocated or sprained or something. I booked a vet appointment for him straight away.
We came home from the vets with a course of antibiotics.
Fast forward a week and he was better than ever! Back perching and louder than ever before! He started to call for us all the time and to be let out his cage. And sung (badly) in the morning to get our attention to get out of bed!
Once completely healed and well. I decided to do more test flight as it is he only way he can be wild again, which is 100% my aim for him. We started off with little flys until eventually he was doing laps around the paddock and drive way. He got use to my voice and me calling him from just a few days of me finding him so he didn’t stray far while flying. He’d get worn out and hot very quick, so I started doing it. A couple of times a day to build up his muscle and stamina.
He actually flew off with a mob of cockatoos and Corellas recently, heading off to the state forest. I was devestated, I knew he wasn’t ready and would be left behind by the other birds. I spent all day crying and stressed. I couldn’t find him anywhere. Then 8 hours later I tried again I walked down the farm driveway calling his name (he always replies) then I heard him! He sounded so pleased to hear me, I spotted him up in a tree and he flew down to me, I cried tears of happiness
Since then I’ve been to scared to let him free fly, I’m going to have to though as it’s his only way of learning. I let him into the peacock aviary for flys and he loves to eat the grape vine that’s growing up it. And I also bought him a big outdoor aviary for outside the cottage as I don’t like to leave him in the peacock one as there is a peahen with her 2 chicks in there at the moment until the chicks are healthy enough. And I have to shut them into there house while Sunny is in there. Plus the mesh is big so I worry he could get his head stuck. I’ve put lots of branches fresh of the tree in his personal one for him which he loves to peck at.
I plan to contact a wildlife rescue to see if they have any Corellas almost ready for release to see if maybe 1 or 2 could come and live with sunny for a week to get him socialised and make friends that he can fly off with.
I of course have fallen in love with Sunny so so much! He is the most amazing, cutest and funny animal I have ever had. His character is spectacular, he is so goofy and just LOVES being ticked around his beautiful eyes and beak. He follows me everywhere and he makes me smile all the time. I know he shouldn’t be this tame if I want to release him but I feel it was vital to socialise with him otherwise he would have given up, been scared and not have recovered and survived. We only had an emergency small cage to begin with as well so it was very important for me to let him out which meant I had to handle him.
It really is my aim for him to be wild. I almost cry every night when I’m putting him to bed and I can see all the wild cockatoos and Corellas getting ready to settle down for the night. And there I am putting sunny behind bars, all alone.
I know he’s happy, he gets so excited when he sees me, he makes to cutest little sniffing noise with his wings slightly up and rubs his beach on my face.
Just bought I should add that When we first found him we did contact wildlife rescues for help and because they are all so full they told us he’d have a better chance with me as he would get one on one attention instead of being one of maybe 10+other animals!
Also I actually have no idea if he is in fact a boy or a girl!
Wow that was a long story! Thanks for reading
Oh I’m English in the process of living in Aus permanently. My names hannah and I’m 27.
Thought I’d join as I’m a new bird ‘owner’ and love advice to make Sunny as happpy and healthy as possible!
Soo here is our story. On the 8th of December we found Sunny in the road, there has been a few very windy nights before hand so we are guessing he blew out the best maybe, almost ready to leave but hadn’t quite learnt how to fly. He was also rather skinny like he’d been wondering around lost for a couple of days perhaps. We are unsure but he would have certainly been squashed by a car, eaten by a fox, snake or picked up by an eagle if he’s been left there.
So I took him on, thinking it would just be a week of getting his energy back up with good food and rest and then be released quite soon.
The first day he was obviously rather shy of me, but I just let him be and didn’t disturb him as he’d gone through enough stress and it was a hot day.
The next morning I offered him some apple..that’s it, we became best friends
Once he started eating and learnt how to eat seed properly without just de shelling and then dropping it he became much better in his brightness. He quite quickly learnt to climb onto my hand to be let out the cage. We let him walk around the small 2 roomed cottage we currently live in ( blinds pulled down etc).
I’d like to get him out as much as possible as it’s not fair for him especially being wild to be cooped up. After about a week he’d sit on my shoulder and as I knew he couldn’t fly well, more than just a couple of flaps then flop to the ground. I’d take him for a walk outside and he’d sit on my shoulder while I fed the horses. A few more days later I thought I’d do another test flight, knowing he wouldn’t manage to do much.. but to my complete surprise he managed to fly slightly up for the first time!! He fly into a tree and got stuck!! By the time I got him down he was exhausted. Something was wrong with him
Straight away as he couldn’t stand up, I felt awful. I thought I’d used up all his last reserves and now had no more energy to cope. I just made him as comfortable as possible sitting him in the bottom of the cage with towels to keep him warm. I didn’t expect him to last the night, I was so upset.
So as you can imagine I was so pleased and surprised that he was still with us in the morning. I syringed fed him sugar water and critical care for a couple of days until I suddenly noticed that one of his feet wasn’t gripping at all! I realised straight away that he must have injured it in the tree, I couldn’t feel a break so gathered it was dislocated or sprained or something. I booked a vet appointment for him straight away.
We came home from the vets with a course of antibiotics.
Fast forward a week and he was better than ever! Back perching and louder than ever before! He started to call for us all the time and to be let out his cage. And sung (badly) in the morning to get our attention to get out of bed!
Once completely healed and well. I decided to do more test flight as it is he only way he can be wild again, which is 100% my aim for him. We started off with little flys until eventually he was doing laps around the paddock and drive way. He got use to my voice and me calling him from just a few days of me finding him so he didn’t stray far while flying. He’d get worn out and hot very quick, so I started doing it. A couple of times a day to build up his muscle and stamina.
He actually flew off with a mob of cockatoos and Corellas recently, heading off to the state forest. I was devestated, I knew he wasn’t ready and would be left behind by the other birds. I spent all day crying and stressed. I couldn’t find him anywhere. Then 8 hours later I tried again I walked down the farm driveway calling his name (he always replies) then I heard him! He sounded so pleased to hear me, I spotted him up in a tree and he flew down to me, I cried tears of happiness
Since then I’ve been to scared to let him free fly, I’m going to have to though as it’s his only way of learning. I let him into the peacock aviary for flys and he loves to eat the grape vine that’s growing up it. And I also bought him a big outdoor aviary for outside the cottage as I don’t like to leave him in the peacock one as there is a peahen with her 2 chicks in there at the moment until the chicks are healthy enough. And I have to shut them into there house while Sunny is in there. Plus the mesh is big so I worry he could get his head stuck. I’ve put lots of branches fresh of the tree in his personal one for him which he loves to peck at.
I plan to contact a wildlife rescue to see if they have any Corellas almost ready for release to see if maybe 1 or 2 could come and live with sunny for a week to get him socialised and make friends that he can fly off with.
I of course have fallen in love with Sunny so so much! He is the most amazing, cutest and funny animal I have ever had. His character is spectacular, he is so goofy and just LOVES being ticked around his beautiful eyes and beak. He follows me everywhere and he makes me smile all the time. I know he shouldn’t be this tame if I want to release him but I feel it was vital to socialise with him otherwise he would have given up, been scared and not have recovered and survived. We only had an emergency small cage to begin with as well so it was very important for me to let him out which meant I had to handle him.
It really is my aim for him to be wild. I almost cry every night when I’m putting him to bed and I can see all the wild cockatoos and Corellas getting ready to settle down for the night. And there I am putting sunny behind bars, all alone.
I know he’s happy, he gets so excited when he sees me, he makes to cutest little sniffing noise with his wings slightly up and rubs his beach on my face.
Just bought I should add that When we first found him we did contact wildlife rescues for help and because they are all so full they told us he’d have a better chance with me as he would get one on one attention instead of being one of maybe 10+other animals!
Also I actually have no idea if he is in fact a boy or a girl!
Wow that was a long story! Thanks for reading
Oh I’m English in the process of living in Aus permanently. My names hannah and I’m 27.
