Audacity"

After some very diligent searching, we found that he had made his way across the twenty foot living room carpet to our other cages in which our other birds were kept.
We put him back into his cage with Azure, Mandy Keet, and Jen-Two, before we once again had to leave for several hours. BIG MISTAKE!

When we returned home, it did not take us very long to discover that this little guy had literally "flown the coop!"  Jeanne and I spent the next two hours on on our hands and knees and looking behind sofas, wooden chests, boxes, inside of trash cans, and behind our Entertianment Center. We checked every cage in our living room, but we could not find this bird.

Jeanne had a "horizontal blade" floor fan sitting on the living room floor by the air conditioner closet door.  Jeanne briefly raised the floor fan and glanced under the base of the running fan, but she did not see anything.  After many more minutes of diligent searching, Jeanne decided to tip the running fan on its side and then to peer inside of the fan. The little bird had crawled under the base of the fan and had climbed up the inside wall of the fan. Its head was only about 2 inches from below the underside of the running fan!

After turning off the fan, Jeanne managed to reach through the base of the fan and to reach up along the inside wall of the fan and grab the bird. After making certain that the little bird had suffered no ill effects of his harrowing experience inside of the running fan, Jeanne put it into a smaller cage, from which it could not escape.

Jeanne and I sat on the living room sofa and began thinking about a suitable name for this little bird, irrespective of whether it was a male or a female. I came up with the name, "Audacity," because I considered that the bird was quite "audacious" to squeeze out of its cage and to climb into a running fan!  Jeanne agreed with the name, but as a joke, Jeanne started calling the bird, "Fan Bird," a nick-name which has stuck to this day. We finally determined that "Audacity" or "Fan Bird" is a male, and we have put him into a cage with very narrow bars. He shares this cage with 3 other male birds: Big Bird, Jeanne Marie (an obvisously misnamed bird), and MandiLynne.

Written 3/12/2010.

We are sad to announce that "Audacity" died in his cage on Wednesday, 12/15/2010.

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