The Tree Incident!
It all started when Amber brought me outside.
We have gone outside together many times
before, but this time it would be different.
I must have lost my balance while she
was walking and flapped my wings
to regain it, because next thing I knew,
I had taken flight for the first time!
I didn't know what to do! All I knew was
that if I stopped flapping my wings, then
I started to fall; if I flapped my wings,
I would not fall. I entered a field and curved
to my right, flew across the yard and finally landed
in a tree. Once I landed, I looked around for
Amber, and found her running to the
house without me! Amber's mother
was standing at the bottom of the tree I landed
in calling for me. Amber came back out of the house
few long minutes later followed by her
father and brother with a ladder.
Amber stood at the bottom of the tree
next to her mother and started calling for me.
I let out a panic call followed by the chirping
I had learned from Pig-Bird. They
struggled to find where I was at, and once they saw
where I was, they set up the ladder. To
their disappointment, the ladder was not
tall enough, and they would have to climb
the tree once to the top of the ladder. But
the tree I was in was very thin. Amber is scared of
heights, so her brother tried to reach me while I
let out a few more stressful yells and
Pig-Bird chirps. After several minutes of
trying to reach me, they tried something new.
They began to raise the ladder in an attempt
to reach me and have me step into it.
The ladder reached me when they raised it
as far up as they could reach, but the
large ladder shook the branch I was
perching on, and frightened me to the point
of jumping into the air and flying into the
neighbor's yard, even higher up into yet
another tree. This time I was at the tip top
of these wrist thick trees, and the
wind was blowing enough to shake the
tops of this new tree I had landed in.
Amber was the first to arrive at the bottom
of this tree. Her family followed, and I let out
a few more calls as I tried to keep a hold
of the branches shifting in the wind.
Then, Amber's father shook the tree in an
attempt to startle me to the ground, but
I was able to jump into the air a third time,
and fly even further up and back into the
neighbor's yard. I landed in another tree
that was lining the thick forest of the
country. Overall, I flew over an acre,
and was now in the tree tops of third tree that
was around the area of fifty feet in the air.
It was at that point I thought I would never
get down. Each time I flew I got higher
into the air. I let out a few stress calls to
the sound of Amber and her mother's voice.
They were searching for me. I could see them.
Amber's father and brother left toward the
house, and left Amber and her mother
at the bottom of the tree looking for me.
I'm not sure they knew which tree I was
in at this point.
After some time of searching for me,
Amber's mom left and returned with
a pair of binoculars, my cage, and an apple.
Amber tried to convince me down using
the apple, while her mother looked for
me using the binoculars and the sound of
my stressful screaming.
I finally got fed up with the uselessness
of my screaming and hollered to Amber,
"COME HERE!" I was tired of being in
this tree, I was getting hungry, and I wanted
that apple. I was not pleased when I heard
Amber reply with, "No, you come here,
Junior!" We argued back and forth
with that for a while, until they finally found
which tree I was in, and the branch I was
perched on. Amber's mother had to
tell Amber where I was and have
her look through the binoculars as I
continued calling "Come here!"
They tried to convince me down by
playing with my toys, and ringing my bell.
They tapped on the cage, and I returned
the tapping sound to them but was not
willing to try to fly again. I didn't know what
I was doing when it came to that. I just couldn't
understand why Amber wouldn't come
up here and get me.
Amber's mom had to leave her and go
inside to cook dinner, and yes I was in the
tree that long! Since lunch. And now it
was dinner. I wanted that apple still, even
if it was hours old. But I was forced to
sit on the branch I landed on and
watch Amber try to convince me down.
The sun was going down, and by this time I
had made myself comfortable on
the branch. I watched Amber sitting on
the ground watching me in return.
Every so often she would call, "Birdie!
Please come down!" And I would return
with a tired toned, "Hey."
I was getting too tired to reply when
Amber's mother came out and
dragged her inside. I watched in silence
as they disappeared into the night, in the
direction of the house.
The following morning, just before the
sun came up, I heard Amber calling me.
I was still tired and hungry from the
whole thing, and just stretched my neck out
to see her at the bottom of the tree with
a flash light and a bag of food. "Junior,
are you there?" I heard her call as she
shook the bag of food. She searched the
tree with the flashlight, and became very silent.
After the sun came up, Amber went over to
my cage, which they left outside all night,
and put the flash light on top of it. She
took my bell from the cage and rang it loudly.
"Junior!" she called.
I sat and watched her with my bell, and
looked at the food bowl in the cage. I
was very hungry.
Finally, I got up the gut to jump down
to a branch I had been looking at. The
branch was about a foot down. Upon hearing
rustling of the leaves, Amber ran to a
different side of the tree. "Junior?" she
called. I crawled around until I came upon
a comfortable sized branch, which was somewhat
in the open. Once Amber saw me, she shook
the food bag and bell and called to me,
"Good, Junior! Jump down again!"
But I wasn't ready to do it again! I did
my part, now she had to come and get
me. That jump scared me. I wasn't ready
to make another jump like that.
But I was desperate.
It was a couple of hours of pacing and
calling until Amber's mother came
out. She was looking through the
phone book.
After about a half an hour, the neighbor,
whose land we were on, finally came
out to see what was going on.
The neighbor knew Amber had parrots, and
immediately asked which one it was.
The Neighbor was saddened to find
that it was me who was stuck in that tree.
She went back inside of her house after
telling us she was going to make a few
phone calls.
I was so stressed out in this tree! I
did not want to be here! I wanted
to be in my cage eating my food. I screamed
a few more times, paced around on the
branch, and pulled out some feathers.
At some point I was startled when a
Cardinal landed next to me. The
Cardinal must not have seen me, because
when I flapped my wings from the scare,
the Cardinal took off in a hurry.
The Neighbor came out and gave Amber
and her mother the phone number
of a friend of hers who works
with a company that has cherry
pickers! Amber's mother called the
number the neighbor gave her, and
help was on the way.
The time it took for the cherry picker to
arrive seemed like forever. But finally one came.
Then, another! Two cherry pickers!
Amber went against her fear of heights and
told the cherry picker man that she
wanted to be the one to get me.
This is a picture of Amber with the
cherry picker man. Also the general
area I'm at is pointed out.
Yes I'm really in that tree, and this is as close
as the camera would zoom.
This is Amber and Cherry Picker Man
coming in to get me, and when I saw her, and
made sure she saw me, I greeted her with
a priceless, "Hey!"
Amber is reaching for me! Hurry! I want an apple!
Amber has me and I'm safe and sound!
Out of that tree, too! Thank goodness!
Can I have an apple now?
The moment when an up-all-nighter,
stress-relieved couple is safely
reunited!
Now there's the look of a tired Quaker Parrot.
And not to mention, the look of a Quaker who wants
an apple! *hint *hint
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