Wild Parakeet in Backyard

I've occasionally seen this beautiful bird over the past 2 or 3 years, flying through my yard. How he survives the winters here in New Jersey, I do not know. But anyway, on New Years Day I had off from work. I feed the birds and squirrels in my yard on a daily basis, so I'm always looking out the window at the action. I noticed the parakeet had returned, so I ran and grabbed my video camera, and I took this great footage.

Unfortunately, this story ends on a sad note. Immediately after I shot this video, I went inside and watched the footage on my TV. When I got back up to look outside to see if the parakeet was still there, I see this hawk sitting there, with the little parakeet neatly tucked under his huge talons. Nothing was moving, neither the hawk, nor the parakeet. Very bittersweet. Then, time regained momentum, and in a flash, the hawk flew off, holding the parakeet in its grasp.

Life is funny like that, isn't it? I mean, for years I couldn't get close to this bird. Then, in the last 15 minutes of its life, it practically walks right up to me.

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Pets & Animals

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• Parakeet
• Backyard
• New
• Jersey
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• Ryder
• LouRyder

[dbsz]

@4lifeblt Hi, I just felt like informing about one error in your facts about budgies. Budgies are happy and feel safe when they are fluffed up. When they are scared they press their feathers close to their body and stretch their head to the highest possible to make them selves ready to fly, the also look around far more to find a place to fly to. However you are right that budgies fluff up when they are sick, but then they often stand still in shelter. This guy was happy on this clip :)

[FukaDesuNoto]

Once when I was doing my homework, I looked outside into the backyard and saw a parakeet land. I wanted to catch it and maybe keep it or turn it in somewhere... but it flew away before I could think of how I would do that.

[ScHnitzLLlicious92]

This video made me so sad.

[jvprint]

No se de que pais eres pero esta clase de aves no se llama perico salvaje, su nombre es periquitos australianos y son hermosos aqui en mi casa tengo 4 de colores diferentes

[meowyish]

heyy that bird is mine :D

[bplatt1069]

Good Heavens, what digression on this site! The sad fact of the matter is that this poor young budgie escaped someone's home and then fell prey to the dangers of the outside with no inkling of the harm to which it was exposed. Bird owners, be mindful and cautious!

[Prochif]

2 - 3 years? This bird is a baby, is very young. 4 weeks old!

[Captntiger]

He looks so happy :D

[FukaDesuNoto]

@TheSpeedPainteress Exactly. But there are 13 stripes and red is first, so it's also last. It would be a pain to draw all 50 stars perfectly in diagonal lines, so we really just draw a simplified version and everyone gets the idea. XD

Yeah, this was fun. I'll take a look at your stuff. :)

[TheSpeedPainteress]

@FukaDesuNoto tbh, i like our flag too, lots of people seem to have issues drawing the leaf but to me its easy

i was gonna give a link for a converter, but then i thought "theyll figure it out" lol and u did

no offense, but i agree (lol did that make sense?) ur flag is rather busy, i mean really, is some kid who has to draw it for school or something (ive had to draw ours several times) gonna remember where each star/stripe goes?

anyway nice chat :) check out my vids! ill look @urs

[FukaDesuNoto]

@TheSpeedPainteress So I would have to use an online converter to know exactly what temperatures you were referring to. I've never seen snow in real life. I'd like to sometime, but I wonder sometimes if I would be able to handle the cold. And... I like the simplicity and uniqueness of Canada's flag. America's flag is rather busy. I've seen it so many times in my life now, I'm almost sick of it because it makes me think of politics. >_>

[FukaDesuNoto]

@TheSpeedPainteress Ahaha, and I'm not obsessed with patriotism or obese, but I do eat a lot of hamburgers because they're one of my favorite foods. My mom is tired of them and has trouble believing I'm not. ^_^U Where I live, it barely gets hot or cold, so at the slightest temperature change, everyone is complaining. And even though we learned conversions in Chemistry this year, I forgot Farenheit to Celsius over Winter Break. XD (I have a second comment too.)