Dickie

Sunday just gone while on the way home from my cousin Stuarts house on the ExPostie , something in Albert Rd South Norwood passed me low down to the ground.

At first thinking it was a piece of paper I got off me bike to find this lttle one wallowing in the middle of the road . I spent a couple of minutes chasing a budgie across the road , it was obviously exhausted allready because it was could hardly go above my knee height.

Eventualy our luck ran out and just as a car was coming along this busy back road I managed to make a grab of it in my left hand , this being the only time it made any noise . After an initial struggle I was able to walk back to my flat with bird in hand and ExPostie in another.

The ytemperature that night got down to +3.oC that night and on Monday it was only +4.0C so it was just as well I found the little one , as well as Foxes , Magpies , Crows and other possible predators may have made swift work of a tired budgie overnight.

I had a good look at I after I got back to my flat and came to the conclusion that it was a young female judging by the brown on the cere , budgies usualy have an identity ring on one leg but on this case there was no such ring.

She was'nt pooping in anyway so obviously she had not eaten for some time and I had put her into my domed cage made of a lightweight wood and hung her up from a hook on the ceiling . I was'nt till the morning after that I noticed she had been eating and drinking.

My cousin Stuart always said I was one for picking up the birds , but he did say the feathered variety some time back . And shortly after losing Buzz at Staplehurst , a bird I also found back in 1995 we offered it to Auntie Eileen but she declined.

So due to finding her in Albert Rd I decided to call her Victoria . Of course if it does turn out to be a male if it should lose what brown there is on the cere , I dont realy fancy calling the bird Albert.

One lucky Rudgie

Victoria portrait on the flatscreen


Victoria landscape of flatscreen



Join the club , Victoria , Trinny , Dickie

Brandy

wow, what a story, she is beautiful

In my opinion though, she should really have been quarantined before introducing her to your flock, you dont know what she could have picked up in the wild

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Solarsis

That's lucky little bird to have flown near you! She's adorable.

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Sophie and her bouncy furballs:

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Mollymitten

Good for you for rescuing her!

Dickie

She is in a seperate cage now anyway Brandy , but I can see what you going at.

Yes recently as I have looked at her every now and again I have noticed how pretty she is , she does actualy have grey on her back that you cant see in the photo's here.

I thought I just heard a peep from her which is unusual , she's a very quiet bird so far.

Now that I think about it maybe it wasjust as well I found her because I am pretty sure she would'nt have survived that cold night Sunday gone . Maybe if she had just had a feed before she escaped from wherever.

But I lost a Lovebird too the cold once after an arguement with my father over the noise it made early in the morning , so I did'nt have her in the bedroom with me and she had just runout of seed that night , Chip was 6 yrs and I was right upset with dad after I found her upside down the next morning.

So there was no way I was leaving that budgie to the cold.

* shakes head * No way.

Dickie

Victoria has been on holiday allready and I need to pick her up within the next couple of days . I only just back from Ireland yesterday.

Kev and Bev brought back Dickie , Nejad and Wilga last night and I will most likely bring =^o^= Schneeball home tonite.

Will have Victoria and trinny home by Wednesday I should imagine.