Sunday May 03,2009 The Columbian Newspaper Article on Savannah & Video Report on The missing Yellow Collared Mini-Macaw.

Courtesy of Diana Carter Diana Carter kisses her yellow-collared mini macaw, Savannah. The bird has been missing for several days.

Lost parrot may be too scared to squawk, couple say
Saturday, May 2 11:10 p.m.
BY JOHN BRANTONCOLUMBIAN STAFF WRITER

Source; http://columbian.com/article/20090503/NEWS02/705039959

Lost parrot may be too scared to squawk, couple
Saturday, May 2 11:10 p.m.

BY JOHN BRANTONCOLUMBIAN STAFF WRITER

Courtesy of Diana Carter Diana Carter kisses her yellow-collared mini macaw, Savannah. The bird has been missing for several days.
Paul and Diana Carter love their macaw so much that they had her DNA analyzed to see if she was male or female so she’d get an appropriate name.The green yellow-collared mini-macaw, hatched in Georgia, ended up being called Savannah.The Vancouver residents paid about $1,500 for her more than two years ago, and lavished her with affection as if she were a child.“She was hatched on my wife’s birthday,” said Paul Carter, a truck driver. “So that makes her more special.”“She’s a sweet bird,” said Diana Carter, a schoolteacher. “She’s our baby. She loves to wrestle and play. She plays peekaboo with me. When you say, ‘Who wants a peanut?’ she squawks because she wants the peanut.” The Carters’ haven’t heard those squawks for a while.On April 19, a Sunday, Diana Carter stepped out her front door in the Burnt Bridge Creek neighborhood with Savannah on a little leash.Something startled the parrot and she slipped the leash and flew into a nearby tree. “We tried to coax her down,” the husband said. “She was calling to us from the tree,” Diana Carter said. “She said, ‘Ma’ and ‘Step up.’ She doesn’t know how to fly down from really tall heights. She’s never been flying outside before.”Savannah is trained to say “Step up” when she wants to perch on her owners’ fingers.As the Carters watched over the next few days, the bird stayed in trees nearby.“She was staying around our home and trying to get to us,” the wife said. “She’d call and try to get down. We called to her and tried to get her home with peanuts and gourmet popcorn.”But on Wednesday, the wind picked up and Savannah was gone with it.Fearing that Savannah is exhausted, dehydrated and sick, or might be found and sold who knows where, the couple swung into action. They notified the local Humane Society, veterinarians and pet stores.The Carters and Christopher Driggins with N.W. Bird Rescue posted fliers in the Hearthwood area and others nearby, but some were quickly taken down by unknown persons, they said.
Finders keepers?
Thursday, Paul Carter took a flier into a pet store in Cascade Park. He said clerks looked at Savannah’s photo on the flier and said a woman had stopped by about an hour earlier, saying her son had found such a bird.Paul Carter said he was told the woman bought a magazine about caring for parrots and left, saying the bird had landed in her yard, that her son found it and that he was attached to it.On Sunday, April 26, after the Carters contacted Vancouver police, an officer obtained the woman’s name and address from the store and went to her home in the Countryside Woods neighborhood, according to public records.The officer later reported that the woman told him her daughter in Florida had found such a macaw, and was trying to care for it, so the mother bought a magazine to help her daughter.The woman allowed the officer to look inside her home, but no bird was found.The Carters said they suspect the woman knows where Savannah is. They said Savannah might be too scared to speak or squawk, especially if the woman has dogs.Friday evening, Driggins went to the woman’s home with three volunteers: Tracy Nichols, owner of the Love Your Pet store in Orchards; Dorothy Krout, 90, a volunteer and supporter of N.W. Bird Rescue; and Christa Kangas, a local representative with www.911parrotalert.com, a Web site featuring lost birds.“While they were gone I prayed and read verses and sang praises and kept praying and waiting,” Diana Carter said.After Driggins knocked and rang the doorbell a few times, the woman came to the door and said she didn’t have the parrot.Driggins said he left his business cards with the woman and told her he’s offering a large cash reward and a more valuable bird to anyone who finds Savannah alive and returns her to the Carters. The couple have several ways of identifying their bird.Anyone who finds Savannah, or knows where she is, is asked to call Driggins at 360-BIRDMAN or 503-BIRDMAN.John Branton: 360-735-4513 or john.branton@columbian.com.

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Susan Harding Reoports ;

April 21st, 2009 Yacolt Update

April 21st, 2009 Yacolt Update

Below is a distant photo of the Yacolt Quakers.

(It is beginning to take on the looks of a face.)

Looking closer, you can see one Quaker peeking out their nest?

(Photo's by Glenn & Lisa Welker)

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You can see Ma’ & Pa’ Joe Quaker looking out their nest as the sound of chirping babies were reported by the Welker Family.

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Happy Easter Report ! From-Tuesday April 7th 2009. Seed donation for the Yacolt, Washington Quakers.

1st Year Annivesary Happy Easter Report From-Tuesday April 7th 2009. Seed donation for the Yacolt, Washington Quakers.

2009

A Brief BLAST INTO THE PAST.

2008

Sunday March 23rd, 2008 HAPPY EASTER !
Today were pleased to announce the completion of the installation of our final Nest Box in Yacolt Washington.
Yacolt residents Lisa & Glenn Welker.Proudly show off the “We’re Number 1 Sign!”The Welkers are the proud owners of the first completed nest platform installed by Northwest Bird Rescue Inc.

Glenn & Lisa Welker


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2009 Our 1st Year Quaker Anniversary Happy Easter Report.
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009.
It was beautiful 72 degree day on the drive up to Yacolt Washington to visit the Quakers. I arrive in the town at the corner of Jones Street & Hubbard. This is one of the corners where a power pole once had a Quaker’s nest.

It's now clear of any nesting material.

As I arrived at the primary old nesting location of the Quaker Parrots.

We video taped this pair of Quakers flying out of this nest.






(On the corner of Hubbard and Twin Falls Road)

We dropped off 70lbs of seed that was donated for the Yacolt Quaker’s survival.

As we arrived at the Glenn Welker’s home, his family greeted me and helped unload the seed.

Josh Welker of Yacolt is in photo above.

Glenn & Lisa Welker of Yacolt in photo above.

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When I arrived in the back yard of the Welkers, I immediately saw a pair of Quakers exiting their nest.

4-7-2009 Glenn Welker reports on video about the Quaker’s reconstruction of their nest.







4-7-2009 Video of possible new babies inside the nest, reported by Glenn Welker.

The Welker Family just recently added a new member to their family,

“Lucy” a hand-fed baby Quaker".

“Lucy” Was purchased from their local bird store called "The Parrot Perch of Vancouver."

“Lucy” is receiving plenty of love form the Welker family.

I stop by Nest platform # 2 before sundown to inspect the platform.

On arrival I just missed taking a photo of two Quakers exiting the nest.

Here is a dusk photo of nest platform # 2, where we have had

reports of some Quakers residing.

Above is a past photo of the Yacolt Quakers in 2008.

Now we have reports of more babies in the nest.

Stay Tuned for more Updates.

Update’s On New Yacolt Washington Quakers Coming soon!

Quaker Parrot Honored in Saving toddlers life!

HERE IS PROFF AGAIN, OF HOW SMART AND WONDERFUL QUAKERS ARE...

DENVER -- A choking toddler's life has been saved, her parents say, because one chatty green parrot knew just when to speak up.

Quaker Parrot Honored in Saving toddlers life!

February 12th 2009. Update from Yacolt Quaker Rescue.

February 12th 2009 Update from Yacolt.

Today we received a report from the Welker family that they have heard more sounds of newborn Babies from their Nest Platform.

(The new family of six Quakers outside their new home)

Click on image to enlarge photo.Below is a photo taken by the Welker's, of one of the parents exiting the nest platform on the north side of the nest platform.

Below is a photo taken by the Welker’s, of a closer look at both parents now exiting the nest platform. Apparently encouraging the fledgling babies to exit.

Below is another photo taken by the Welker’s,
of the babies birds perching in the tree close’s to their new found world.
Yacolt, Washington.
With the sighting of these two new babies we have a confirmed 22 Quakers alive since the rescue efforts started in November 29th 2007.
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