Our wildlife menagerie at Pomegranate continues to grow (and entertain us), from the young buck who came right up to the back door (and ate the entire day's buffet at the bird feeder), to the teeny chipmunks, golden mantle squirrels (so cute!), sparrows, hawks, quail, and pygmy nuthatches.
Now we have a colorful interloper, and I'm worried about what's going to happen when things turn cold (as in, yesterday!). This pretty parakeet showed up last week, and he's having a grand ol' time with all his new buddies, flitting from tree to tree, squawking, and eating. Until I got these shots of him (not too bad, taken with the long lens through our big picture window), I didn't realize he had an ankle band, which must mean something to someone, no?
Someone suggested trying to trap him via an open cage with food in it, but I know where that's going: there will be an angry rock chuck in it in the morning, and no sign of the parakeet.
Any ideas? Doubtful he knows how to fly south, and sadly, winter is just around the corner.
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Try finding a friend with a parakeet, set the bird in it's (closed) cage near an opened window, the loose Budgie will be drawn to the cage, and you can possibly get him inside to keep safe. (might even try this with an empty cage, door opened and food inside; pet birds are drawn to home-like atmosphere: the cage.
Someone misses him, I'm sure, and YES he will freeze in the Oregon weather very SOON!
FYI: a band on a bird shows the breeder and hatch-ling of which clutch they came. A record of sorts. Mostly designed to keep track of legal birds in the US.
Thank you; good suggestion. Sadly, our little buddy disappeared very shortly after this post. We're not sure what happened, but there's a lot of wildlife around our shop, including, grrr, feral cats that started their breeding chain from cats that people have dumped on the property.
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