TheBanyanTree: A Bird In The Hand

[NancyIee at aol.com]

What a great story!! Thanks for sharing.  You were lucky to get the bird 
back. Here in Florida, there is a big flock (and growing) of wild parrots who 
gathered together after "fleeing the coop" of their owners.

They are a nuisance, especially around the airport, where the airport police 
have erected strange things involving shotguns with blanks that go off 
regularly, to scare the p[arrots from the runway areas. (They get suck into jet 
engines, you see, and cause all sorts of problems with the planes)

We have birds, too. Too many.  One Cockatoo, one lesser cockatoo, several 
love birds, and I can never keep straight those that bite from those that don't.  
And a pair of cockatiels that continuosly build a nest, lay eggs, set on 
them, hatch out numerous babies, and then abandon them.  We, too, clip their 
wings. But, still, they can fly enough to elude us if they so choose. It is really 
scary when they do.

One that got away a long time ago, one of the lovebirds that bit and was a 
bit wild, hung around a few days. He hung around a little further away for 
another few days, (while we tried to capture/trap/nab him)

Then he was gone. We have eagles and hawks about, and a bobcat, but we 
refused to consider he was someone's dinner.  Rather, we choose to think he flew to 
the airport and joined the mob there.

I still look for him when I ever go there.