is it normal to see a electus in your backyard...?
im mean seriusely ive just sent about 45 minutes trying to coax her down!!
any suggestions please hurry!!

Put some food out for her, she may come down if she's hungry! But someone has to be frantically looking for that sweetheart! I would be!! If you can coax her down, make sure to try to find her parronts! they must be just sick searching for her!

Good luck!

I can't say I have ever seen an Ekkie in my backyard!
Where do you live?
I would put some food out and try to get her down, maybe call someone or a local rescue or something to see if anyone has lost her. Do you have a cage to put under the tree for her to see and maybe she would fly down to it since she doesn't know you? Her parronts must be freaking out!

Good luck!

Maybe some fresh fruit/veggies too, cut up, try repeating step up and see if (boy green/girl red) he/she makes an attempt to come to you. Know anybody with a ladder? It might be afraid of coming down and need someone to go up. Oh poor baby, I bet it is scared! And the parronts are frantic! Please keep us posted!

it to high for a ladder but the owners came knocking on the door so now weve almost got her down

Sarah I sure hope you all were successful in getting that Ekkie down....When you get a chance, if that was the owner, please give us the story of what happened....

Bravo to you for such a sharp eye.....

Well, I am glad the owners are there..... praying for you guys to get him down safely!!

weve got her!!!! the owners said that they had the back door open to let some fresh air in and thier electus(bess) flew out the door (she didnt have her wings cliped)and flew a few houses down the road,in my back yard they went door to door looking for her and about an hour after i noticed her they knocked so the owners went to coax her down and after about 20 minutes she came down a bit one of the owners was able to get her down becuase he was the tallest person thereyou should have seen thier faces one of them started crying! a happy ending to a wonderful story!

depends where you live?

florida

I hope they learned their lesson and got her wings clipped. Or at the very least have set a new rule wherein the bird must be in the cage BEFORE any outside doors are allowed to be open and posts signs about that rule by all the doors.

SO fantastic that they got her back. I remember when I got my Quaker back after I learned my lesson the hard way. I was laughing and crying and shaking all over I was so happy! Nice save!

I love happy endings!! That is great (although they are not to smart having a door open with a fully flighted bird, hope they learned their lesson!)its a good thing you were so observant. Good job!

i actually saw her fly into the tree because i was sitting outside by my pool it would have been cool had it not been so dramatic for the owners

Wow...a wonderful ending. I know they must have been so relieved to get their baby back. Hopefully as was stated before the parronts learned their lesson and now keep her wings trimmed or at the very least make sure they close all escape routes before allowing her out of her cage.

I'd love to walk outside and find a parrot in my backyard. I was on the phone with my hubby when I read this post, and told him why can't something like that happen to me??? He said he hopes nothing like that ever happens...LOL. His biggest fear is that I'll start finding stray and homeless parrots the way I manage to come across stray dogs.

im glad everything worked out, now i wonder if Ziggy ever got back

ive been wondering the same thing

Thanks Sarah for a happy ending......Wheeew, it could have been a disaster....I wonder if that was the first time their Bess flew out of the house....Sure hope they are more careful from now on......

So happy it all worked out!!

me too

That's a happy ending!

Great ending! When my dogs run off it's horrible and usually I can keep them in sight... can't imagine with a bird!



I always get bummed that other people find all these animals everywhere and I never do... but probably everyone else who knows me is relieved. (Though when I do find one on occasion, the owner is usually right behind them and/or there's a tag).

His biggest fear is that I'll start finding stray and homeless parrots the way I manage to come across stray dogs.
LMBO Snugglebutt!! I seem to find my share of the homeless ones too ... have two right now being vetted, as a matter of fact.

I am soooo happy this story had such a nice ending of the Ekkie being reunited with her owners! Great eye for spotting her!