Have You Got A Budgie Or Canary?

[barry1010]

At one time it seemed every other house had a small bird in a cage.  I used to keep budgies and cockatiels but the asthma put paid to that.

I don't know anyone that has a budgie or canary now.  My mother got great comfort from her feathered companions. 

[rowanwitch]

I have an accidental canary.... Didn't want one....

It was just as lockdown started, heard a strange chirping on my balcony, opened the door and in flew this orange thing.  Flew directly to a picture I had bought for Redman , pooped on it and just looked at me.... I couldn't let it out again as it would be killed by the first predator to spot it.  Improvised a cage in the top of a bookcase with chicken wire and cable clips, bought some seed and put up posters asking if anyone had lost one.

Identified it as a red factor type ... No one claimed it.... My mother decided he needed a new cage... He is still here.  Now called Shankley.

He has a very varied diet( currently into strawberries)  a variety of perches, and a mirror... Every year he learns a new song, and trust me it's not a pretty warbling more like the sound effects of a seaside amusement arcade.   He sings along to all Redmans favourite songs.... Red factor... Redman... My friends say most people get a feather from the departed.... Dave sent the whole bloody bird

 

 

[barry1010]

Lovely story, rowan.  When did your feathered friend arrive?

[barry1010]

Birds have the uncanny knack of screeching just as the tv comedian comes to the punchline.  Don't know how they do it

[rowanwitch]

About 9 o'clock in the morning, about a week into the first lockdown...