Post: getting back your quakerPosted by Pat on 10/01/10
I too watched my 18mo old quaker fly out my open screen
door. I did, nor do I think knew he could fly, it was his
first flight. I live on acreage, near the ocean, with
endless wildlife and green trees and grass bogs, I went
after him, and for nearly 12 hrs. I called his name.
During 6 of the 12 hrs he slept outside. It rained that
night, but the sun was out that morning, my neighbors were
on alert for my bird and called me early to tell me they
thought they heard a "sqwuaking" in their backyard (one
away from mine, but we shared a tree line so Iwent back
there and started calling his name and to "step up", he
should have been hungry, wet, and wanting human
contact...but mostly hungry, I heard him "holler", he flew
out of the tree at me and hooked a right about 20ft in
front of me caught in a big blast of wind...gone! again, I
ran and yelling his name all the way, my husband handed me
some "yam" sticks his favorite as I ran past our house and
down the road toward the forested state lands. About 600
yards down a dirt path that goes thru a swamp I yelled his
name, then I heard him again we managed to come together,
but, parrots cant fly in a straight line, its circular,
and all that name yelling and his squawking in return lead
me to him and him to me, however .... the wind kept
grabiing him up just as we are about to touch. Again gone
further down and deeper into the forest....My husband
concerned I was gone so long, came looking for me, and
followed my yelling, so yelled for me in the bog and the
bird found him, and finally after two more failed attempts
at flying in circles and landing close enough for a step
up command my husband had him. I went to "cup" him up,
the bird with yam stick in claw took off again!!!Yes he
did.....45 min later and no yam stick other than the ones
we held up until he flew close enought to land....he
landed on Bobs shoulder....we walked home and into the
house down the hall with shrill screams of excitement when
he saw his cage.....so go back to where you lost your
bird, bring his cage load up with seed, and plan to say
his name and step up until you and your neighbors think
your nuts, if too much time has passed, he may have
already found a friendly human that would feed him.....and
call those neighbors, ask them to listen to any strange
bird noises, we were able to track him, cause we couldnt
hear him. Remember they dont fly in a straight line, and
bring along something that is bright, like a yam stick.
Oh and if you notice your bird is flying, teach him to fly
on command, so he forgets to do it on his own....working
on that with Stan. Had a dog that would climb a fence and
disappear for the day, so we taught him to climb latters
on command and fetch apples, ollyopp over the a held out
leg, or a brick wall...he never did climb a fence after
that...its starting to work with the parrot, but, my guys
are young, and of course a good clipping is the true key.
Hope this helps
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getting back your quaker, 10/01/10, by Pat.