Well this is how it starts, we had a few budiges in a cabinet about to fledge, now I noticed a yf2 cinnwing spangle disappeared but Bob claimed I was insane and it didn't exist... Well whilst out back yesterday showing my friend my cockatoo we heard chirping and the dog was sniffing something in the grass, voila! there was Hudini, the escaped budgie all wet in the morning dew!Well we put him/her (can't tell sex as I haven't seen the bird properly) back in the cabinet with the parents and were over the moon, A- i wasn't insane, B- we got him back safe.Well yesterday arvo I was checking a cabinet with egg and felt something fly past my ear, again i thought I was going bonkers and had let the bird out of the nest box, checked to make sure, nope they're both still in there. So i ask Bob and my nephew if they saw anything, nope... Then out of the corner of my eye i see a flutter, look up to my right and there's the little poo head sitting above my aviary on a rope!!!Bob went to catch him and he went sky rocketing off into the trees at the park...Now today we've spotted the bird again, it's obviously hungry and wants to come home as it's been flying around my cages and so on, but everytime we get close enough it flys off, so we either have to be really smart and tactful or wait until it gets weak enough to not get away... right now the little butt head is sitting just on the fence in my neighbours yard having a sleep in the open :@BIRDS!!!I'll keep you updated

 

 

Well we ALMOST had him, he landed on our clear sheeting next to the lovebird aviary and Bob grabbed him, he wriggled out !Lets just say he's a few feathers short of a tail now!Mind you he's now rubbing it in and flying circles over my house LOLI'll get some photo's for you all

Edited August 1, 200816 yr by *libby*
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hehe... it's all just a game for him/her! Just like naughty little kids...

Wonderful news!!!!!

Hudini has been caught!!!!!!! yay!!!!!

I can't beleive it actually worked LOL!

I'll post the photo's of her before her capture in the open before I netted her when she was with my tame boys

well done.

 

Just on a side note, i both love and hate reading these threads. I am so happy that you have him back, but also so disappointed when i think abotu the 2 I have had fly away.

 

I am happy for you.

Thanks Dave, i've also had a few lost without success at getting them back, but both babies we have lost have been re-captured again, they're not as independent as the adults I guess and like company of their flock.

 

- Hudini rubbing it in in the neighbours banana looking tree

 

- Really rubbing it in in my gum tree

 

- Flying out of my gum tree

 

- Ever so close!!! just a Metre off my fence on my neighbours shed!!!!

 

- Trying to make me throttle her!!! she's only feet from me!!!!!

 

- Just moments before being netted, trying to get food off my tame birds !!!!

Edited August 1, 200816 yr by *libby*

So how does this little one get out?

Ahh now that's what we tried to work out for ages!!!

It's a tiny bird and apparently the cabinet door pushes to the side a tiny bit, making the 1 cm spacing about a 1.2 cm spacing and it got out of that !!!!

amazing!!! We've now bent the bars a bit so it can't do that

I am so glad to hear you got the budgie back, it is amazing the way they will try to find a way to get out of their cages.

what a ham lol he is a cutie, you are very fortunate he stuck around and you could capture him back.

You were so lucky to get her back

Glad you got him back

 

Note for future reference - wet birds can't fly!

Oh, Glad she is home. and safe the cheeky bugger

Thank lord you caught her.

I'm really glad you caught the little poo head!!! She is a beauty too.

 

AV: My wet birds can fly I tried that once, and not only could she fly, she was angry that I hosed her and she took off straight away. If I hadn't have done it, she may have stayed around and I may have been able to catch her.

So pleased you got her back!! What a little rascal!!! I hope she doesn't score any more points now!!

Well I contemplated the hose, but she's far too fast, so I suggested shooting her out of the sky with the high pressure hose Bob wouldn't let me haha!

What a cheeky brat! She is VERY lucky you got her back and I'm sure she doesnt realise how lucky she is!! Glad the story had a happy ending