Stuck in GA with a Crazy Bird Lady

[UncleJT]

Hey everyone. I'm the other half here with Jenn and her newly rescued Macaw along with all of her other rugrats. The birds keep multiplying and we'll unfortunately run out of room before I can find my Yellow-headed Nape.

- JT

[Jean]

Hi Uncle JT, :wavey: It's nice to have you join us.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v387/jeanaskins/welcome%20-%20friendship/daffodilwelcomegreeting.gifIf you wish hard enough your yellow headed nape just may come your way. You came to the right place to be with all the rest of us crazy bird people.

[Jim]

Hi JT

Nice to meet you. I'm new here... still tying the find my way around and get to know everyone and what birds they have.

BTW - From what I can tell Harley found a good home.

All the best
Jim

[Western Man]

Hi JT, it is nice meeting you. I am like you trying to peck and find my way around while Jean is taking a walk with Elvie. I am not only new to finding my way around the board, I am new to pecking the computer. A bird can peck it's food faster then I can peck this keyboard. Jean was telling me about Harley and how lucky he is to have found a good home. I am glad to hear he is with you.

Best wishes, Al

[Ginny]

JT,
Nice to meet you. Congratulations on your new B&G. We got ours a little over a year ago from a older lady that broke her hip and couldn't take care of her any more. She is a sweet bird but a lot different then the other birds I have had. Plus a lot bigger. But they tend to BIG babies.

[birdnerd]

Hello Uncle JT

You mean there isn't "always room for one more?"

;)

[Shirley]

Hey JT, How ya doin?! Glad you joined! And it was great meeting you!

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[Islandzoo]

Hi JT welcome to BoF :)

[Sue]

Hi JT and WELCOME!!!!

Sounds like you and Jenn are doing a great job with Harley:emot-danc :emot-danc

[vmtwriter]

Hello, JT. Welcome to the bird forum. You couldn't find a nicer group of bird people.

[UncleJT]

You mean there isn't "always room for one more?"
Well, we may be getting a Cockatoo soon and I still want a Nape. It may never end now.

- JT

[Jenn]

It's worse than the fish habit or any other obsession... there's always room for one more :::: INSERT VICE HERE (tank, coral, fish, bird....)::::::

Ron our vet has a RB2 that was given to him - found in a back yard. He may consider giving it to us as it doesn't seem to like him. Ron says she doesn't like men... guess we'll see.

I will need another suite in my plaza for my 'bird room' soon! :eek:

Jenn

[Shirley]

It's worse than the fish habit or any other obsession... there's always room for one more :::: INSERT VICE HERE (tank, coral, fish, bird....)::::::

Ron our vet has a RB2 that was given to him - found in a back yard. He may consider giving it to us as it doesn't seem to like him. Ron says she doesn't like men... guess we'll see.

I will need another suite in my plaza for my 'bird room' soon! :eek:

Jenn

I sure do hope an extensive effort is first made to find its home -- there are ways to advertise without totally ID'ing the bird.

RB2s are way too expensive and definitely not a "throw-away" bird -- someone is heartbroken somewhere...

:help:

[Jenn]

Oh yes... Ron searched extensively. He's had the bird for at least a year now. It has a leg band, and he checked any/all databases he has access to. He found the breeder, contacted them, but they couldn't help identify the individual bird or its owner. He checked with all the local shelters, repeatedly, posted notices etc. He wanted nothing more than to reunite the bird with its keeper. He had no luck at all. It's likely she was a flyaway - she was well kept, in good health and feather, with a sweet female voice - so her keeper was obiously female. Unfortunately there's no telling how far she came but Ron used the 'net to try to find her keeper - no luck. I believe he exhausted every avenue he had.

The day she was brought in he gave her a complete checkup and brought her up to my shop to "visit" as he knows these are one of my faves. He kept her in his clinic for a long while and eventually he brought her home (he use to have his own U2 some years ago but found a new home for it as at the time he was unable to give it the time/attention he needed).

For what it's worth, my Pepe was a flyaway too - her last keeper had Woodstock and an African Grey. Pepe turned up in a tree one day outside their children's school and the prinicpal knew that the family kept birds, so they called Shaun to see if he could catch this bird... they actually talked her down out of a tree. They too, tried to find her rightful keeper, and had no luck. Meanwhile Pepe and Woody bonded... they had Pepe for a year (and Woody for 5) before I got them. I've had them just over a year now too.

I suppose if I was unfortunate enough to lose a bird as a flyaway, I'd sure hope the bird found a great home :( I'm glad to have Pepe :)

I'm not holding my breath about the RB2... Ron mentioned it in passing... I've got enough on my plate at the moment with the rest of my flock and Harley!

Jenn

[Jean]

This lost bird string brings to mind our little nanday conure that flew into us. We tried to find her owner with no luck. Our avian vet said she could of flown as far as 500 miles depending on how long she had been lost and how frightend she was in the wild. He had studied traced many lost birds, he had found there is no set distance for a frightend or scared bird to travel, some stay within their immediate neighborhood for a few days, others spread wings and take off traveling farther then others.

[Jenn]

My friend has a cockatiel that flew off her shoulder one day. Ripley was outside for 6 days but never went too far, but stayed just out of reach in some pine trees. After about 6 days she finally got homesick and flew down to Irwin when he was outside calling to her ;) One can just never tell.

Jenn

[amazing greys]

:wavey: Hi JT & Jenn!!


I'm Barb, the Grey nut around here, lol :agree:

It's so wonderful you were able to give a B&G a great home!! Like I've said b4, I'm also partial to B&G's and find them soooo beautiful! I'm happy to hear that someone stepped in to help him out!!

Please do post more pics!!! :agree: And keep up w/those updates.....wishing you all the best :wub:

[Jenn]

Here is a pic I took the other day - Monday I think, with JT and Harley (Harley's the blue one! :funny: ). We've since done away with the glove - Harley doesn't try to impale us anymore *g*... we do still use the wooden perch for him to grab with his beak, while he steps up, for balance. He's realizing we aren't going to whack him with it, so he's not screaming anymore when he sees it. He simply holds it with his beak and steps up onto our hands :)


Eric, my friend/neighbor who has his office in my store, has been spoiling him too... he shared some bran flakes with him this morning, very daintily lapping them right off Eric's spoon, and a bite of his PBJ for lunch! He's chasing that down with a new adding machine tape! :rotflmao:

[amazing greys]

awww it won't be no time at all, he'll be mush for you!!


Keep on keeping on, you both should be commended for your huge :heart: to help a bird that needs a little work.

[Jean]

Awww, absolutely adorable! :heart: :wub: :heart: He'sprobably more scared then you are.
He wants to be a good bird, just needs someone like you folks to help him find his way.:wub: We are all behind you.:highfive:

[Ginny]

I think he is doing great. Keep up the good work.