Please keep your parrot indoors

[moss]

Chasing things in trees that can fly can promote existential despair. Or in my case, “Oh well, on to the next tree”.

For this one I got an undeserved perfect throw through both tops of an oak, I think I heard the parrot say “Polly likes a pre-direct, Squawk!!” Except when I installed the line he flew to the next block. I think Rio (he’s a he) thought the rope was a snake. This time no remote line install, climbed from the bottom up using various unapproved renegade techniques and he stayed put.

-AJ

 

[Shadowscape]

Great job!

 

[evo]

I remember assisting on a parrot rescue. I have no idea on the kind, but it was green. In a full hemlock. Spent about an hour with the owner, looking with binoculars at where they were pointing. Never saw it, but climbed anyway. Once up there the climber looked over to the next tree and saw it...

 

[SeanRuel]

Lol, did i tell you my parrot rescue attempt story when you were up in Maine? Similar to Evos but the bird flew off at the first throw line shot into a greenbelt of 100'+ Doug fir.

Totally amazed you got him!

 

[surveyor]

Man Moss, you talk both Kitty Cat and Parrot (or in this case Macaw).

I think you may have been lucky you were not bit worse, as they have a powerful bite !

I had a small parrot in SA that would fly free (after his clipped wing feathers grew back in), until the day the Director of the base was walking with some government officials, showing them around, when my parrot descended from above and landed on the Directors head....

 

[moss]

I remember assisting on a parrot rescue. I have no idea on the kind, but it was green. In a full hemlock. Spent about an hour with the owner, looking with binoculars at where they were pointing. Never saw it, but climbed anyway. Once up there the climber looked over to the next tree and saw it...

Yep!

 

[moss]

Man Moss, you talk both Kitty Cat and Parrot (or in this case Macaw).

I think you may have been lucky you were not bit worse, as they have a powerful bite !

Tell me about it! I should've been wearing leather gloves. The kid that owns the parrot yelled as I approached the bird "He doesn't like gloves!" Go figure.

He bit me lightly when I first pulled him into my lap. When I pushed him into the cat carrier he absolutely did not want to go in. He chewed hard, biting me twice on my right hand index finger just above the third joint. Luckily he was pinching all flesh with the pointed beak ends, ouchy but not terrible. I've now had two parrot experts tell me I could've lost part of my finger. That would require the parrot to get my finger deeper between his mandibles where he has tremendous crushing/cutting power. They have to in order to break open some of the big hard nuts they go after in the wild. Of course I am not aware of any of this while I'm stuffing him in. Cats will do more damage in that situation when they get pissed off.
-AJ

 

[moss]

I remember assisting on a parrot rescue. I have no idea on the kind, but it was green. In a full hemlock. Spent about an hour with the owner, looking with binoculars at where they were pointing. Never saw it, but climbed anyway. Once up there the climber looked over to the next tree and saw it...

This is my third parrot. First one was a Gold-capped Conure, elapsed over a couple days at a trailer park. Complete with getting caught in a white pine with hard downpours and lightning, then a trailer near the parrot owner's place catching on fire just as I was about to make the climb that got the bird. Fire engines and smoke pouring through the woods where I was climbing. Cute little parrot was tired of flying, I hooked a vertical oak top and pulled it over to me at about 75'. I said the magic words "Step up!" and the parrot perched on my finger. The owner fell on the ground below me crying when I got her bird.

The second one was a month ago, Monk Parakeet (really a parrot). Drove about an hour to get there. The owner kept calling to tell me what the bird was doing as he followed its movements in his car. Each call it was worse, bird was now in a tree in a Walmart parking lot by a busy road. I told him to play Monk Parakeet calls on a bluetooth speaker to keep him from moving again. 10 minutes before I arrived he called to say he got the bird, when he played the calls it came out of the tree and landed on his shoulder. Remote rescue!
-AJ

 

[Mike Islander]

Nice rescue.

Our parrot escaped one day and spent about 4 hours in a 60 foot pine. Finally I played my harmonica, which he hated, and he flew down to attack...straight into the living room.

 

[tomstrees]

I've got one canary at this point, I had a raccoon break through a kitchen window in the middle of the night and take out one and terrorize another.....

A local tree service, Mill River has "free cat rescue" in their ads. When I asked Johnny about it he mimed using a shotgun to shoot it out of the tree! https://www.millrivertreeservice.com/services/emergency-rescue.php

Also has "serving Block Island" in their ads, lol!

 

[moss]

Nice rescue.

Our parrot escaped one day and spent about 4 hours in a 60 foot pine. Finally I played my harmonica, which he hated, and he flew down to attack...straight into the living room.

Awesome!

 

[cerviarborist]

Tell me about it! I should've been wearing leather gloves. The kid that owns the parrot yelled as I approached the bird "He doesn't like gloves!" Go figure.

He bit me lightly when I first pulled him into my lap. When I pushed him into the cat carrier he absolutely did not want to go in. He chewed hard, biting me twice on my right hand index finger just above the third joint. Luckily he was pinching all flesh with the pointed beak ends, ouchy but not terrible. I've now had two parrot experts tell me I could've lost part of my finger. That would require the parrot to get my finger deeper between his mandibles where he has tremendous crushing/cutting power. They have to in order to break open some of the big hard nuts they go after in the wild. Of course I am not aware of any of this while I'm stuffing him in. Cats will do more damage in that situation when they get pissed off.
-AJ

My recently departed African Grey, Harley also had a morbid fear of a gloved hand. I can only assume that he was mishandled with gloves before he and I met. He was my boon companion for years and I still miss him a lot. Surprising how such a small guy could fill up a room.

How long had Rio been out? I wouldn't think that he would fare well in low temperatures.

 

[moss]

My recently departed African Grey, Harley also had a morbid fear of a gloved hand. I can only assume that he was mishandled with gloves before he and I met. He was my boon companion for years and I still miss him a lot. Surprising how such a small guy could fill up a room.

How long had Rio been out? I wouldn't think that he would fare well in low temperatures.

About 14 hrs through a cold night. He was captive bred in an unheated barn in Indiana, his breeder said he’d do fine for one night. He did, owner says he’s doing great.

Sorry yours is gone.
-AJ