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May I Introduce My Bird.

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carlton23 | 22:57 Tue 21st Dec 2010 | Animals & Nature
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This is my pet Rosa Bourke Parakeet called, what else? "Pinkie". About 4yrs ago on a very cold evening in January she was pointed out to me by my grandson, and she was on a tree branch outside my house looking very weak and fluffed up. I quickly got a pair of steps from my house, and slowly climbed up and took her in my hand and took her indoors. Not having a cage to put her in, I used a upturned plastic fold up box and placed her in that. The next day I toured the neighbourhood trying to find her owners and advertised her in shops windows, but as nobody responded, here she is as my avatar. Nice eh?
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She's lovely, Carlton23, but I'm worried that you'll now get angry and start shouting "Oy, are you lookin' at my bird, mate?" at me ;-)
she is very pretty.
She is a pretty little bird :o)
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Chris, mate, I`m too old to shout , breathings the best I can do now-a-days.
she's lovely!..........I've often thought that I may like to own a Parakeet, is she easy to care for? and do you allow her lots of freedom in the house? I couldn't have one and keep it caged for most of the time!
There was a budgie sitting in a tree outside my window three weeks ago. I tried to get it to come to me by putting wild bird seed in my hand, but it flew away. I saw it later being chased around for ages by magpies, but there was nothing I could do to help it. I would've loved to have kept it if I could've rescued it. I wouldn't ever buy a bird to keep it in a cage, but rescuing one is a different matter. Your bird looks beautiful Carlton.
that's my concern notafish, I'd love one, but could never confine it in a cage!.......
Can you get birds from rescue centres, or is it only cats and dogs?
I think you can notafish, but they're specialist rescue centres I think!..........
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Welshlibranr: yes, she has complete freedom during the day to fly around the living room but she prefers to fly to the darkest area of the room on top of a wall unit and stays there until she gets peckish about 5pm, then she flies back to her cage door flap, which I fix with a piece of wire so that she has a flat platform to land on, she then waddles in. Rosa`s are a very quiet little bird and not very active, although she has her moments when we`re watching telly by flapping her wings like mad, and pretending she`s a humming bird. I have managed to get her to go on my finger and carry her to her cage when she won`t go in herself.
Thanks, I may look further into that. I really would've liked that budgie. (Only if I couldn't find it's owners though)
Oh carlton, she sounds delightful!............I'm tempted!...........
Can she talk?
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I don`t, or didn`t believe in keeping birds in a cage until Pinkie, but she would have not lasted the night.
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Mike1111: No, they don`t make good talkers like other parakeets.
well, carlton you saved her, and sounds like she has a very comfortable life with you!.....
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That contraption that she is on is a clothes airer, which she likes to jump from bar to bar on.
well carlton, she looks happy there!..................credit to you for rescuing her!........
Don't be silly carlton - that isn't a clothes airer - it's a cat climbing frame. Or so my tom cat Frankie tells me. Mine is all bent out of shape and needs to be replaced.

I am glad that you found your bird before the wild birds did - her unusual colour would have attracted much attention.
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