One of my Budgies was Missing!

[DonnaBudgie]

This afternoon I had left Joey and Cora, the two girl budgies that live in our bedroom, out in the room for a couple hours while I napped. When I woke up I couldn't find Cora. There was no way she could have gotten out of the room but she was completely silent like she had disappeared. I looked everywhere she could be and after about 30 minute my eye caught the almost full roll of paper towels on the dresser. It was standing on end as it had been all day. I recalled seeing her perched atop the roll earlier in the day so I picked it up and out flew Cora! She had crawled into the roll from the top and was trapped in the cardboard tube unable to back up the length of the roll and unable to get out the end resting on the dresser. Strangely, she made no noise in there. No sounds of struggle at all. If I hadn't picked up the roll she would have died in there!

 

[onamom]

Oh no! I personally never leave the birbs unsupervised because it makes me too nervous. I’ve gotta know where they are at all times. I’m glad she is ok!

 

[Jcas]

Oh no! So glad you found her. Birds are so good at getting themselves stuck in the craziest places. I had the windows open A few days ago as the weather was very nice and I walked into my room to find that Buster had somehow climbed down in the gap between the two windows! Then it was too slippery for him to climb up. When I carefully lowered the window for him to get out, he had to wiggle a little to fit through. Which means he didn’t just fall down, he had to have climbed in there on purpose! Over a decade of having budgies in that room and none of them have managed to get between the windows that way. Now there is a towel in the gap so that can’t happen again. Little birds get into crazy places! So glad Cora is okay