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Post by Hezz on Oct 16, 2023 7:12:35 GMT
I’d forgotten the sulphur-crested cockatoo who had to be put to sleep because of PBFD.  |
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Oct 6, 2011 7:41:27 GMT
Marianne Marlow
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Oct 16, 2023 7:16:13 GMT
Oh yes. That was so sad. But by the sounds of it, you saved quite a few others  I’d forgotten the sulphur-crested cockatoo who had to be put to sleep because of PBFD. |
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Post by Hezz on Oct 17, 2023 6:42:54 GMT
OH reckons injured birds throw themselves at my feet. I think it is simply more that my head is attuned towards birds in general - my head leaves conversations to find “that bird in the tree”. Most annoying, I’m sure, to those talking to me.
(I have remembered a couple of others who unfortunately didn’t make it.)
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Oct 6, 2011 7:41:27 GMT
Marianne Marlow
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Oct 17, 2023 6:44:52 GMT
I found that since I had had budgies, I notice other birds far more than I did before. My eyes are also drawn to birds in trees, I even subconsciously look for them all the time. OH reckons injured birds throw themselves at my feet. I think it is simply more that my head is attuned towards birds in general - my head leaves conversations to find “that bird in the tree”. Most annoying, I’m sure, to those talking to me. (I have remembered a couple of others who unfortunately didn’t make it.) |
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Post by Ira on Oct 21, 2023 16:59:46 GMT
Late to this party, but I once had a wood pigeon like that for a few days during my teenage years. It was a juvenile and looked to have jumped the nest too soon. Very sweet and docile creatures, pigeons are. It tried to get away to our neighbour's by sticking its head through the mesh fence (fortunately large holes) but obviously then it's body got stuck, so we just picked it up and kept it in the shed with wild bird seed and water for a few days until it could comfortably fly the length of the garage. Then we let it go.
My granddad once had to remove a feral pigeon from a bank.
I've had to take a starling out of a classroom and a chaffinch from a corridor before. Never quite got over my amusement and confusion at the pair of teachers just staring at that one. They were like "It's a good thing Zoë was here." and I'm like... I literally walked in and scooped it where it was fluttering against the window pane... Having said that, I can't handle babies, despite being comfortable wrestling Indie to give him medicine.
Briefly had a magpie, not sure what happened to that. And of course the goldfinch we had for half a day.
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Post by Ira on Oct 21, 2023 17:02:10 GMT
I found that since I had had budgies, I notice other birds far more than I did before. My eyes are also drawn to birds in tress, I even subconsciously look for them all the time. OH reckons injured birds throw themselves at my feet. I think it is simply more that my head is attuned towards birds in general - my head leaves conversations to find “that bird in the tree”. Most annoying, I’m sure, to those talking to me. (I have remembered a couple of others who unfortunately didn’t make it.) I totally get that, although in my case I was all about birds from when I was a toddler. My grandparents would take me out in the pushchair and I would point at all the birds. Well done with the pigeon, Marianne! Forgot to say that in my last post. He, or she, was lucky you spotted them. |
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