She also filed a lost pet report with the SPCA, just in case someone found him and took him to the shelter.Īll day Wednesday, she waited to hear some news about Bert. She sent a photo of Bert – in it, he was perched on the lip of a coffee cup – and details of his escape. Tina immediately went to Find Toby in PA, a Facebook group dedicated to finding lost pets. The next morning, her husband was home – he's a trucker and had completed a run to Maine the night before – and he went out to search for Bert. She left his cage in the back yard, with fresh seed and water, hoping that he would find his way home. They searched the neighborhood until it got dark, calling his name and whistling, jingling the bells from his cage. They suspended the search at sundown birds tend to lay low at night. They expected to find Bert in a tree or in a neighbor's bush. He did fly to Walmart once, which is how he came into Tina's life. He'd never done something like that before – well, almost never. As Tina put fresh seeds in his feeder, Bert made a dash for it, darting under Tina's arm and taking off, clearing the stockade fence and through a line of trees, heading east from their Hay Street home toward Albemarle Street.
Bert likes sitting in his cage outdoors, getting fresh air and listening to the birds chirping in the trees. or so, and it was nice out, warm and sunny. It was the middle of September, a Tuesday, about 6 p.m. Tina wasn't sure how he got out of the house.
Another time, he got out onto the porch and perched on the umbrella. He flew to her hand, and she took him back inside. Once, she and her husband Dave were sitting on the porch, and she looked over and saw Bert perched on the air conditioner. He wouldn't go any farther than the back porch. He never seemed to like it much, Tina said. He has escaped now and then, leaving the safe confines of the house for the great outdoors. Besides, Bert liked flying around the house, often landing on Tina's shoulder.
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