To let my neighbours birds fly free tonight?

[Outnumbrd]

So I am the new person in the street, and my new neighbours have produced, a few nights ago, 2 I think budgies or some other littles tweeting birds in a tiny cage and put them in the back yard. I can hear them chirping and all I can think is that they are looking at the sky and asking me to set them free. So I have a plan, to send one of DC's , probably the smallest one to open the cage tonight. Then if he gets caught I can pretend I know nothing of it.

I hate seeing it too. Many years ago
In Tel Aviv I stayed in a hostel which had a bird in a cage. We all felt really sorry for it and one night 'released' it. In the morning it had flown back into its cage and was on its perch shivering and looking sad. There's def a moral to that story though it's escaping me right now 😃

Plenty of wild budgie flocks round here-Hertfordshire. They've gone back to the smudgy blue/green colours. Also several pairs of parakeets. There was a pair of escaped lovebirds a few years back, don't think they survived.

I hate to see birds (or any animals really) in cages too, but you really shouldn't set other people's pets free.

They would probably meet a terrible end, too.

Catsize I am assuming that the OP's child is not old enough to have legal standing to be sued We all know what assumption is don't we?

If I found a child in my garden setting my animals 'free'...I'd call the police, and ensure said 'child' got a severe bollocking at the very least. There would also be a very strongly worded solicitors letter to the parents of said 'child'. The only people who should be in my back garden are ones I've invited - anyone else is trespassing, as they have no right or permission to enter (and have had to undo a gate to enter).

But isn't keeping them in a cage in the tree like rubbing salt into the wounds?

You'd most likely be signing their death warrant if you set them free. Bad idea.

How well hung is that cage?

sorry, I've been in too many wrong threads lately

They would die in a matter of days. Our budgies go outside in their cage convoys nice for some fresh air. But otherwise live free in the dining room but choose to spend quite a bit of time in their cage. Don't assume they don't get plenty of exercise

There are always beautiful bright green parakeets in our local park (in one of the areas mentioned above) they're beautiful, and quite jarring to see next to the crows and sparrows!

We used to have budgies as a child, mum used to put the cage outside on nice days so the birds could appreciate the sunshine.

I wouldn't keep a caged bird though either, and despite loving fish I wont keep them unless they are in a large tank or better still a pond.

Lweji I don't know how well hung it is, however if I see a magician's briefcase anywhere that will be it!

I couldn't bear looking at that either, but I wouldn't be able to release them knowing it'd probably be a death sentence. I have no idea what I'd do.

They'd survive around a week, if that.

More like 2 minutes. Budgies are tiny birds with Big Bird aspirations. They'd be away squaring up to seagulls and trying to pull their tails.

It's true! They do have big bird aspirations! They are like the Jack Russell Terrier of small birds!

Really, Cherrysoup? Nothing about that on the Herts Bird Club pages - it would be highly notable cos budgies are not considered ever to have been properly established in Britain.

There is or was a small colony of feral monk parakeets in Herts, they are close to budgie-size. But I think Defra may have eradicated them. And Herts has plenty of ring-necked parakeets.

There was a colony of free-flying budgies on Tresco (Scillies) some years ago but they were not self-sustaining - when the person who was feeding them died or moved away (can't remember which) they died out really quickly. That's the nearest thing to a proper established population of budgies in Britain that there's ever been AFAIK.

That video astounded me, Gerund.

When I was a child, we used to have a lovely little green budgie, he only went in his cage when he felt like it, and would fling poo at us if he didn't feel he was getting enough attention. He never bothered with flying much, he preferred scuttling about on the floor. We'd give him the wishbone from the Sunday roast chicken (or he'd just fly onto the table and steal it , then he'd run about on his little clacky feet holding it in his beak.

He decided to fly out the skylight one day, I hope he came across a flock of friendly sparrows.

He sounds a fab little character. Hopefully he did find some sparrow friends.

if this 'light hearted' i don't think it is very amusing and if you are serious you either need help or are a complete moron.