Escaped finch returns!

vgonzalez · Post by **vgonzalez** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:41 am

Since we live in South Florida, we keep our birds on our enclosed front porch. It provides them with the shelter they need and plenty of fresh (indirect) sun and air.

Anyways, i came home saturday to discover that my red eared finches had escaped. Upon further inspection, one of the smaller doors to their aviary was open. (I've had trouble with one of the neighborhood kids and I had not seen him since.)

I set out to capture them and got three back into the cage. I counted the red eareds in the aviary and sure enough one was missing. Somehow, one of them must have escaped. We assumed it was when the kid opened the screen door to leave. I was heart broken!!

Sunday evening, we come home and my 5 year old says "Mommy, look, that finch looks like ours!" Sure enough, the red eared that had escaped was on the outside of our screened porch!

We left the screen door open and set a cage up with food and water. Within the hour, he was inside the cage eating!

We snuck up, captured him and put him back where he belonged, with his other buddies!

Needless to say, all access to the aviary and other cages, now have locks.

Crystal · Post by **Crystal** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 2:43 pm

Great story! I'm glad to hear you have invested in locks, and especially glad to hear about the happy ending.

zookeeper · Post by **zookeeper** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 2:50 pm

How stressful! Darn neighbor kid.

ChocoboDragon · Post by **ChocoboDragon** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:50 pm

Wow, glad to hear it had a happy ending.

Did the kid let them escape on purpose? That's horrible.

I've had two Zebra Finches escape and never got them back. >_> I made sure to improve my aviary so something like that won't happen again.

However, years ago (back when I was about 12) while I was away on holiday, an older friend of mine was looking after the aviary while I was gone. Whilst in there one day, she accidently left the door open a crack, and one of my canaries escaped.

The canary had been missing for weeks, and I had lost any hope of getting her back. But all this time, she had actually flown all the way to my school and through the window of the classroom right next to mine! I had heard that they found a bird, and even heard it chirping every now and then, but it never even occured to me that it might be my bird.

One day I actually went into the classroom and had a look at the bird, then I finally realised that it was my escaped canary! It was definantly her. So I told the teacher that the bird was mine, and he told me that the very next day he was just going to say that whoever wants it can have it, so I discovered her just in time.

tammieb · Post by **tammieb** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 11:18 pm

It's amazing that you were reunited with your canary. Sounds almost to good to be true, but I'm sure it is.

ChocoboDragon · Post by **ChocoboDragon** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:35 am

tammieb wrote:It's amazing that you were reunited with your canary. Sounds almost to good to be true, but I'm sure it is.

It was amazing.

It did have a downside to it though, she was sitting on eggs which all hatched while I was away, and I came home to baby canary skeletons in the nest and dead baby quails littered all over the floor because it didnt occur to my friend that the babies couldn't reach the water. :\
Heh, not that anyone needed to know all that sad stuff. >_>

kenny · Post by **kenny** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 4:21 pm

OMG thats awful !knowing water was there and they cant reach it thats terrible...thats made me go all funny inside

ken

mattyb802 · Post by **mattyb802** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:06 pm

ChocoboDragon wrote:Wow, glad to hear it had a happy ending. Did the kid let them escape on purpose? That's horrible.

I've had two Zebra Finches escape and never got them back. >_> I made sure to improve my aviary so something like that won't happen again.

However, years ago (back when I was about 12) while I was away on holiday, an older friend of mine was looking after the aviary while I was gone. Whilst in there one day, she accidently left the door open a crack, and one of my canaries escaped.

The canary had been missing for weeks, and I had lost any hope of getting her back. But all this time, she had actually flown all the way to my school and through the window of the classroom right next to mine! I had heard that they found a bird, and even heard it chirping every now and then, but it never even occured to me that it might be my bird.

One day I actually went into the classroom and had a look at the bird, then I finally realised that it was my escaped canary! It was definantly her. So I told the teacher that the bird was mine, and he told me that the very next day he was just going to say that whoever wants it can have it, so I discovered her just in time.