Kitekeeper
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- Jun 19, 2021
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- Parrots
- Budgerigar (Bud), Pacific Parrotlet (Sam), Roseicollis lovebird (BJ and Turq), Linneolated parakeet (Charlie and Emma)
Sometimes things can take years to happen again, but it is always puzzling when some of them do all at the same time!
It has been more than 30 years since I was called to help a budgie bleeding heavily. Also more than 30 years since I could put my hands on a Brotogeris parakeet and more than five years since I helped to raise young birds fallen from their nest.
Today all that happened at once!
It was a simple morning going to the store with my girlfriend to buy more bird food. She has an amazing talking budgie that I might introduce in another thread. When we arrived at the store we were shocked to meet a female budgie heavily wounded in the head. She was separated from other budgies (possibly to avoid more damage) but put into a cage full of sharp beaked canaries. She was still being bullied there. My girlfriend and I are both soft hearted for animals in need and I could see in her eyes that we would take that budgie home. We had no plans to increase our flock, but..... how could someone make a blind eye to her.
Pictures were too graphic, I´ve just removed them.
Well, we brought her home and treated his wounds plus gave some antibiotics. We found out that she has a punctured wing too. At first she barely opened her eyes and had not eat for hours. Then we put her close to our other budgies cage and she just lighten up. She showed interest in the other birds, ate, explored the cage....I hope she can overcome this. She already showed she has the will.
Early in the afternoon, we looked at the window at what seemed to be a Brotogeris parakeet fly falling from a building and tangling in a small tree almost in the ground level. We went down and the poor parakeet was just a baby in his very first flight. He got lost from its parents and was unable to develop a full flight up. We caught it hoping to give him rest, water and to free it later. Late in the afternoon the poor baby was still not in conditions to fly up. I was able to offer him food when I was feeding the other house baby (the palm tanager rescued from the rainstorm). The Brotogeris showed interest and I prepared proper baby parrot food for it. The most amazing thing happened!! Even if the Brotogeris baby did not know any of us before today, it was open to take food from my fingers!!!
Sometimes, there are days that defy all odds...
It has been more than 30 years since I was called to help a budgie bleeding heavily. Also more than 30 years since I could put my hands on a Brotogeris parakeet and more than five years since I helped to raise young birds fallen from their nest.
Today all that happened at once!
It was a simple morning going to the store with my girlfriend to buy more bird food. She has an amazing talking budgie that I might introduce in another thread. When we arrived at the store we were shocked to meet a female budgie heavily wounded in the head. She was separated from other budgies (possibly to avoid more damage) but put into a cage full of sharp beaked canaries. She was still being bullied there. My girlfriend and I are both soft hearted for animals in need and I could see in her eyes that we would take that budgie home. We had no plans to increase our flock, but..... how could someone make a blind eye to her.
Pictures were too graphic, I´ve just removed them.
Well, we brought her home and treated his wounds plus gave some antibiotics. We found out that she has a punctured wing too. At first she barely opened her eyes and had not eat for hours. Then we put her close to our other budgies cage and she just lighten up. She showed interest in the other birds, ate, explored the cage....I hope she can overcome this. She already showed she has the will.
Early in the afternoon, we looked at the window at what seemed to be a Brotogeris parakeet fly falling from a building and tangling in a small tree almost in the ground level. We went down and the poor parakeet was just a baby in his very first flight. He got lost from its parents and was unable to develop a full flight up. We caught it hoping to give him rest, water and to free it later. Late in the afternoon the poor baby was still not in conditions to fly up. I was able to offer him food when I was feeding the other house baby (the palm tanager rescued from the rainstorm). The Brotogeris showed interest and I prepared proper baby parrot food for it. The most amazing thing happened!! Even if the Brotogeris baby did not know any of us before today, it was open to take food from my fingers!!!
Sometimes, there are days that defy all odds...
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but had to be a grown up and say no - at least not at this time ...maybe in the future if it's meant to be. Right now I'm just trying to be the best I can be for the wonderful peeps I do have in my life.
