Animal Antics

I have three parrots in a large aviary, two Cockatiels and one Indian Ringneck.  We had a bit of an ‘animal antics’ moment the other day.  A large python tried to get one of the birds and got herself well and truly stuck in the wire.  Luckily for the birds, it happened on the way in, not on the way out with a full belly. 🙂  Surprisingly they were rather unperturbed by the whole thing.  Ho-hum seemed to be the order of the day as far as they were concerned.

She’s very lucky we are the kind of people we are, we rescued her and released her in a nearby nature reserve. 

It was tricky, she was caught in two places.  I managed to get her tail end free but the other place where she was caught was really tight.  My partner had to snip the wire, which was a bit of a worry, but he managed it without doing her any substantial damage.  I held onto her body and slowly pulled her back towards me and he grabbed her behind the head as her head came free.  He held her up and I unwrapped her from my arm, dropped her tail into an old pillowcase, he let go of her head and voila, into the pillowcase, and a knot tied.  Then up to the reserve to be set free to hunt another day. 

It was like she knew we were trying to help her, she never even attempted to bite either of us and when I tipped her out of the pillowcase she just sort of sat there for a while looking at us and flicking her blue tongue out like she was saying ‘thank you’.  Then she slowly slid away and climbed the nearest tree.

I’m sure it was a ‘she’ because she was wearing a diamond pattern and you know what they say about diamonds being a girl’s best friend.  🙂  And she was beautiful, bright yellow underneath and those lovely diamond-shaped markings on top.

Check it out.

🙂 Lovely, great way to capture a different perspective.

So very sad.

Like the incredible hulk LOL.