Have you ever heard of a stray parakeet? I hadn't until now. Samuel showed up at our house last Tuesday. Jonathan came in from playing outside and told me there was a parrot outside. I laughed and told him they didn't live in the wild around here. Later I went outside to get something and the kids all yelled "there's the parrot." I looked up in the tree to which they were pointing and saw a parakeet. I was pretty surprised and began talking to him. I'm not quite sure why I believed he would come to me but I tried calling him down out of the tree. Eventually he walked his way towards me along a tree branch. It was then that he won my heart over. He was so cute. He flew down and landed near me and let me pick him up. I quickly took him inside the house and placed him under a basket.
Two days later we got a cage from a friend of ours while waiting to see if anyone would respond to our signs "Found Parakeet." Needless to say no one did and so Samuel is our new addition. We all hope he is adjusting well. We are probably a lot louder and more active than the house he came from! He is very sweet and will let most of us hold him. He still needs time to build more trust. The kids love him.
David attempts to hold Samuel very still
