Found parakeet/budgie in Teele Square

[lizzyclean.livejournal.com]

JUST FOUND: beautiful blue and white budgie. We found him happily eating grass on the sidewalk on Mead Street, just off of Cameron. He's got very nice dark blue shoulder patches.

We've currently got him/her in a cat carrier eating millet and some of the grass from the sidewalk. He's pretty tame, though does not seem to enjoy being held. It seems like he is used to people and not a wild bird.

We do own two budgies already, which is why we agreed to take him in (as opposed to our nice neighbors who have never owned one before) but we only have a small cage AND we have two cats. Right now he's safe in a closed room, and we can keep him for a little bit, but obviously if he belongs to someone we'd like to reunite them. The Animal Rescue League is closed for the evening so it looks like we'll be keeping him overnight.

I've never found a bird before so if someone has any other ideas for trying to locate the owner please let me know! I'm going to try twitter and Universal Hub.
I can be reached at lizzylee@gmail.com if you know who owns this pretty little bird!

Comments

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

I'm sensing a bird-related theme here :)

When I posted about the pigeon yesterday, someone suggested calling animal control and also contacting Angell memorial. If someone is missing it, they might put up flyers, but birds can go a long way.

[lizzyclean.livejournal.com]

Oh, two things I hadn't thought of. Thanks!
Also, nice point about how they can go a long way with the whole flying thing. My pea brain was sure that someone IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD was weeping about their lost bird.

[koshmom.livejournal.com]

While they can go a long way, budgies often don't. Thus someone might be weeping about their lost bird. On the other hand, someone might have had a budgie as a pet while in college, and couldn't take it home with them when the school year finished, so they "freed" it to die of hunger/get eaten.

[lizzyclean.livejournal.com]

We haven't heard from any possible owners, but our new little temporary friend is sitting pretty in his new cage. We did a freecycle/craigslist search and someone just down the road was giving away a free parakeet cage with all the fixin's. Somerville is awesome! So he's safe, warm, and has as much food and water as he could want. He's pretty lucky that we found him!
I also spoke to Somerville animal control so we've got that base covered. If nobody claims him in a few days we'll come up with some kind of plan.

[inari0.livejournal.com]

Budgies often, but not always, stay close to where they escaped. It might be worth putting up fliers. Does the bird have a leg tag? If it has a tag, you can go to some pet stores with the number and see if they can identify it. Tags generally have information about the breeder and some pet stores keep track of the tags and who they sell the bird to.

Also, try posting about the bird at Talk Budgies (http://talkbudgies.com). There's probably a higher probability that a budgie owner reads that than that one reads LJ.

[lizzyclean.livejournal.com]

No leg band on this guy but I was planning on doing fliers tomorrow. Tonight we just wanted to make sure he had a comfy place to sleep and eat and all that.
Thanks for the Talk Budgies tip. I will definitely post there tomorrow.

He has definitely lived with humans because he is so at ease with us. He's even more relaxed than our own budgies!

[inari0.livejournal.com]

Be sure to keep it quarantined away from your birds and be sure to wash your hands after interacting with the guy. You don't want to infect your flock if he's sick.

[genarti]

Oh good! I saw him yesterday around 6, perched on the fence of a house on Holland St. (I don't remember the street number, but I think it was maybe at the corner of Jay Street? One of the houses on the corner of Holland and a side street, between Teele and Davis.) He flew off when I got too close, but looked like he was sticking close to the house. I rang the doorbells of the house, but the only person who came to the door said he wasn't theirs.

[lizzyclean.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the location tip. I wonder where he came from!
We're going to put up fliers at some point in the next couple of days, when we stop having a million things to do after work. I haven't seen any postings in any of the typical places (like craigslist) but it's also possible that nobody is looking.
Anyhow, in the meantime he's happy as a clam in his "new" cage.