Just Another Crazy Afternoon

[lovezebs]

Hello All...

I was talking to a lady today, who is interested in offering a very good home to my Strawberry boy (out of my last clutch).

As we spoke, she mentioned that she was also looking for a female Red cheek Cordon Bleu. I mentioned that I had two bonded girls, etc.

Long story short, I decided to part with my Berry boy, and both RC CB girls. The lady is not Iinterested in breeding and has a large flight for her feathered kids.

So, we decided to meet on Thursday, and seeing as I have a busy day tomorrow, I decided that I should grab these three kids today, and put them into a cage so that that things will go more quickly and less stressfully on Thursday morning.

Well, I didn't count on the fact that these birdlings really REALLY didn't want to be caught. I also for some idiotic reason forgot just how fast and agile some of these little Waxbills can be.

It took hours to catch the last two and put them back, and my house looked like a tornado blew through it.

Overturned chairs, panting dogs, knocked over vases, panting birds, some plants that will never quite look the same again, panting me.......

Son comes home from work, and is greeted with: SHUT THE DOOR!!! as he runs inside wild eyed, the door slamming behind him. Poor dogs at this point are running away from me. I glance in the mirror in passing, and YIKES!!! I want to run away from myself .

But finally, finally, I have my escapees back in the flight, close the door and collapse into a chair with a groan. My Strawberry boy is safe in the smaller cage, together with the two Cordon gir...... wait a minute, just WAIT ONE MINUTE! Why is there only one Cordon girl in the cage??????

Back to running around the house, check all the windows, all the bedraggled plants, the curtains, the top of the cupboards, the closets, the picture frames.... every blessed corner I could think of. Just when I was contemplating moving the fridge, I noticed a tiny bit of movement at the bottom of the holding cage. Just a little fluffle under the paper towels.

And there she was, the little blue she devil, crouched right under the paper, going.... . You made me run around, I made you run around.....tee hee hee.

It came close to berdicide at that moment

All is calm and quiet again . Birds are mostly sleeping by now, with the occasional sleepy meep from a Zebbie, and a trill from my Parrot finch boy (who never sleeps).

I really hope that half of my poor birds won't drop dead over night due to stress and exhaustion. I hope I'll be able to move again tomorrow, be able to get out of bed in the morning, and face another root canal.... yeepeee.....

[Rox]

Oh the joys of catching birds, hahaha! I must admit, it's the only part of keeping birds that I really don't like. The little devils are fast!!

Good luck for the root canal!

[lovezebs]

Rox

Thanks Roxanne.

I don't mind catching Canaries and Gouldians, they are slow and easy. Zebras and Societies, are a little harder, but in the Waxbills flight, oh my good God, it's terrible .

I'm always terrified, that I'll give everyone a heart attack, including myself. And it always knocks down whatever little bit of trust which I've manage to astablish with them.

[Rox]

Elana, wait until you have a large walk-in aviary and you have to catch the waxbills with a net. It's not easy!!! We all get stressed out...

Doves, canaries and gouldians are less frantic and slower fliers. So much easier to catch! I always make sure I have some treats ready to put down after I have done the catching. It helps a bit to distract them and get them to settle down again.

[Babs _Owner]

lovezebs

Running around the house like a chicken that just laid an egg trying to flush those little guys out of their hiding spot, eh?

Yep that's me when KoJax gets out. He is a clever one. He likes to hide....watching me run all over, turning over everything to try and find him. Then when I leave, he emerges and he flies back and forth between the four flight cages. Then sits on top of them mocking me

When I come back in the room, he hides again. Rinse and repeat. As soon as he sees that yellow butterfly net in my hand, he knows what the deal is. Its hilarious and exhausting

Surely a getting a root canal is much easier to endure than catching a finch that's loose in the house!

[lovezebs]

Rox & Babs

Hi Girls.

The sad part is, that I had three nets going (one in each hand, and a third with the handle tucked into my back pocket-- that's the one that caught the vase in the passing).

Once these guys get loose in the house, there are so many hiding places for them to get into.

I had my little African Fire, Orion, do the helicopter flutter dive and land, behind a seven foot tall, fully loaded book shelf, that stands in a room corner on an angle. Moving the shelf, was not an option and unloading it would take forever. I poked the handle of the net through a tiny little space, and wouldn't you know it, it wasn't quite long enough to reach him, as he scooted right into the corner (the little poopy head). I just wanted to cry.

Then my making little sobbing, swearing, soup threatening noises must have.spooked him. He flew out and darted right behind and under a heavy love seat. With a small terrier in the house, this was not a good choice . There was a lot of screaming going on at that point as I recall.

Oh ye gods, I'm just glad it's over for now.....

I'm just not as young and agile as I used to be, sigh.