a tropical bird. someones pet. i looked on CL.. and someone else placed a found ad for this bird a few days ago. i talked to the bird and told him if he was around tomorrow i'd go buy him real food. he's eating some weed seeds. (no, not that kind of weed!) i love birds! i've been wanting a "wild" bird friend for a long time...
Domesticate it until it's completely dependent on you for its food supply, and then abandon it. Might teach him some Dostoyevskian truths the hard way.
i love birds too. I was actualy depressed today to find the birds nest in my front window had been empty. For the last 3 weeks ive watched the Robins life cycle in full view, and now i have to wait until next year.
their vacant minds in studying the patterns of paper-hangings on the walls of their chambers, can tell what the river was to the lonely, imaginative creature who used to sit looking into its depths, hour after hour, from the airy height of the Fire-hang-bird's Nest :H Oliver Wendell Holmes Hotwater
shoot it? no way! then i'd have to eat it! it's soooo pretty.. all green and blue and yellow. i petted him once then he flew into the weeds. i haven't seen him yet today. i really hope a cat doesn't get him. i most most of the types of wild birds in the area. i NEED that darn bird book of northern california i hand before.
there was a birdy outside today too, he was just walking around picking things from the grass. There was also a squirrel doing the same thing, they were so undisturbed by each other's presence. It was cute. I miss them
I love escapee birds. I've had a couple visit my yard-a zebra finch and a yellow parakeet. They can survive in the climate here. Even if they don't make it long, at least they got to live free and natural for a while.
I've seen them last at least a month to 6 weeks. Beyond that, I don't know if they were recaptured, moved on or what. There are places where they've survived and colonized, like a number of parrot colonies in the LA area. Seems like soaring free for 6 weeks beats 6 years in a cage.
