Post by opalbirdie on May 11, 2021 22:26:44 GMT
We experienced an earthquake here last week. For the humans, not very scary or disruptive, just a vibration in the walls (I believe the final magnitude was recorded at 4.7). However, our security camera on the bird cage told a very different story.
She is lights out at 7-7:30pm most nights now, and the quake occurred around 9:30pm, so she was already likely asleep. I received a motion alert from the camera and realized she probably had been frightened by the quake so ran to the room, turned the light on just a little, gently, slowly, and raised the cover of the cage. She was standing on the floor of the cage, eyes wide, unresponsive to my voice. After a minute or two of gently speaking to her, she did seem to snap out of it, accepted some water from a dish, and sat on my hand for a few minutes quietly before allowing me to bring her up to her sleeping perch where she hopped off and seemed to settle down. No obvious injuries, no bleeding, nothing that jumped out at me as something wrong other than looking very, very frightened.
After another few minutes I covered the cage again and shut the lights off, half expecting I would find a dead bird in the morning But she was fine, and seemingly had forgotten the panic of the previous evening. It's been days now, and no signs of injury or lasting effect. I am glad her cage setup is such that she did not injure herself flying into something!
I do not have video of the "after" but I thought this group might appreciate the "during" video captured by security camera. I will warn though it's distressing to watch at least for me, knowing the buffeting cage cover and rattling toy noises are caused by a tiny panicked birdie.
She is lights out at 7-7:30pm most nights now, and the quake occurred around 9:30pm, so she was already likely asleep. I received a motion alert from the camera and realized she probably had been frightened by the quake so ran to the room, turned the light on just a little, gently, slowly, and raised the cover of the cage. She was standing on the floor of the cage, eyes wide, unresponsive to my voice. After a minute or two of gently speaking to her, she did seem to snap out of it, accepted some water from a dish, and sat on my hand for a few minutes quietly before allowing me to bring her up to her sleeping perch where she hopped off and seemed to settle down. No obvious injuries, no bleeding, nothing that jumped out at me as something wrong other than looking very, very frightened.
After another few minutes I covered the cage again and shut the lights off, half expecting I would find a dead bird in the morning But she was fine, and seemingly had forgotten the panic of the previous evening. It's been days now, and no signs of injury or lasting effect. I am glad her cage setup is such that she did not injure herself flying into something!
I do not have video of the "after" but I thought this group might appreciate the "during" video captured by security camera. I will warn though it's distressing to watch at least for me, knowing the buffeting cage cover and rattling toy noises are caused by a tiny panicked birdie.