Tuesday May 16th, 2009 Report from theYacolt Quaker's

Here’s a brief flash to the past of photos from the construction that the Yacolt Quakers have performed over this past year.

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April 20^th 2008

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Below is a photo of Glenn Welker, the proud owner of nest platform #1 in Yacolt Washington.

This nest platform was completed March 31t, 2008 appropriately on Easter Sunday.

Earlier in the week, Glenn had called several times reporting Quakers on his platform.

Then this morning upon arriving home, he discovered two Quakers flying in and out of the nest in his backyard.

Below is a photo from April 1^st 2008.
(Photo taken by; Lisa Welker of Yacolt, Washington. )

Below are photos from;
Sunday August 10, 2008 "The Yacolt Quakers Play at Home"

(Photo taken by; Lisa Welker of Yacolt, Washington.)

Sunday August 10, 2008 "The Yacolt Quakers Play at Home"

***May, 2009***

Below are recent photos of the construction work by the
Yacolt ,Washington Quakers.

Their nest has grown over this past year.

Below is one new Quaker baby flying up to it's new 2009 home.
(Photos taken by owners Glenn & Lisa Welker)

And one of the Quaker parents stands guard perching outside the nest..
(Photos taken by Glenn & Lisa Welker)

Here's a photo of a pair of new baby Quakers peeking outside their new nest.
(Photos taken by Glenn & Lisa Welker)
Below is a photo of the Welkers nest platform from a distance...
(Photos taken by Glenn & Lisa Welker)
Here is a closer view of the additional sticks the Quakers have added over the past year...
Here is a closer view with rain clouds approaching in the background.
The Welkers are still hearing babies in their nest.
We hope to have an official count of our Yacolt Quakers soon.
Stay tuned for more updates.

May 13th, 2009 A Rescue call from a pair of YoungTeenagers with no car.

May 13th, 2009 A Rescue call from a pair of Teenagers & Mom! "Ouch's" Return ( Graphic Content)

I had received a distress call from the mother of two young teenage girls who arrived home from school and discovered "Ouch" the female Lesure Sulferheaded Cockatoothat was adopted by this wondeful family.

Was injured and was struggling to get up off the bottom of her cage. It was obvious that "Ouch" had pulled off her protective collar and once again began to self mutilate her right leg I noticed that she had a significant amount of blood droppings on the bottom of her cage, and had shallow labored breathing. So I quickly administered some electrolytes.

She quickly came started to regain her strength.

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After a quick field treatment, she was ready for transport to the nearest available avian veterinary office.

This bird named "Ouch for now; was recently featured in a prior post bird rescue back in November 2008 Below is a link to her Story;

http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6227485190224353187&postID=4426319100630699613

After a quick field treatment, she was ready for transport to the nearest available avian veterinary office.

Upon closer examination the Doctor realized that he did not have enough experience to perform the operation of suturing this on wound shut by himself. I was not allowed to instruct him thru this proceedure. He offered some antibiotics and sent me on my way to seek help with an more experienced vetrenarian.

So I took "Ouch home for treatment.

First I I stopped back by to let the family home to let them visit their bird, and to pick up the Cockatoos cage so she could be care for at our sanctuary division. Back at the New facility, I gave "Ouch" some additional medical treatment.

The next morning Thursday, May 14th. Dr. Judd Witherspoon of East Mill Plane Veterinary services took my emergency call first appointment of the day.

After one week of medication, it was time to change the dressing.

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After the seven stitches; The wound was healing just fine.

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With a new collar on " Ouch” was feeling better
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So ff I went to get "Ouch" back to our facility and keep her stable thru the night untill I could find an more experanced Vetrenaiany.

I stableize her for transport.

Back at N.W. Bird Rescues quarenty quarters "Ouch" enjoyed fresh fruits & veggies, while she relaxed watching Cartoons with her new found roomates.
After treatment I offered "Ouch some fresh fruit treats.

She loves fresh melons, apples and Bananas.

"Ouch was housed in my bed room at night for two weeks for closer observation for two weeks.

She had the company of two recently placed birds as roommates.

After 10 days "Ouch's woundsems to healing just fine...

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The healing of this bird is expensive.

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Thanks to the generous donation from our supporters this precious bird was saved.

Sunday May 03,2009 Columbian Article on Savanna The missing Mini-Macaw

" Savannah"

Yellow Collard Mini~Macaw

Lost

4-19-2009

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.

Portland Oregon's New s KATU (ABC New s )

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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