01-05-2010 Apple the Quaker Escapes, N.W. Bird Rescue & Parrot 911 Alert helps Reunites Bird.

01-05-2010 Apple the Quaker Escapes, N.W. Bird Rescue & Parrot 911 Alert helps Reunites Bird.

Tuesday January 05, 2010.

Apple the Quaker was startled from her perch escapes out the front door of her Tualatin Oregon Apartment. In the early morning of a misty then rainy day in the Portland Oregon Suburb, the Owner Terry franticly chases the bird. Terry wisely places an ad on Craig’s list then calls Chris the Birdman of N.W. Bird Rescue of Vancouver, Washington for help and advice. Then Christa & Christi from Parrot 911 Alert respond to the Craig’s list posting. The collaborations of three Chris’s go into stealth mode to retrieve this lost feathered soul. After two long days of poster placing and worrying; the hard work of posting ad’s with the correct verbiage. The ad‘s helped reunite APPLE the Quaker get reunited with her owner Terry.
Below is the Thank you letter posted by the Owner Terry.

THANK YOU to the kids of the Horizon Christian Elementary School and a wonderful man named Scott for finding and bringing my Apple back to me। Thanks to the vet who clipped Apples wings for free when Scott brought him in. Thanks for the great people from 911parrotalert.com and nwbirdrescue.com for all their help and support and helping me search and put up flyers and get the word out and their willingness to come out even all the way from Vancouver and climb trees. Thankfully it didn't come to tree climbing. Apple is HOME, thanks to everyone for everything.

SorceTHANK YOU to the kids of the Horizon Christian Elementary School and a wonderful man named Scott for finding and bringing my Apple back to me। Thanks to the vet who clipped Apples wings for free when Scott brought him in. Thanks for the great people from 911parrotalert.com and nwbirdrescue.com for all their help and support and helping me search and put up flyers and get the word out and their willingness to come out even all the way from Vancouver and climb trees. Thankfully it didn't come to tree climbing. Apple is HOME, thanks to everyone for everything.

Sorce
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December 2009- N.W. Documentary Homegrown Documentary Festival; Features N.W. Bird Rescue’s Founder; Christopher “Birdman “Driggins

December 2009- N.W. Documentary Homegrown Documentary Festival; Features N.W. Bird Rescue’s Founder; Christopher “Birdman “Driggins

December 2009- N.W. Documentary Homegrown Documentary Festival; Features N.W. Bird Rescue’s Founder; Christopher “Birdman “Driggins

The opening minute of Homegrown Documentary Festival December 2009

This is a Series of Audience reactions from comments made by an amateur filming from the balcony. A brief excerpt from the documentary;

"N.W.Homegrown Documentary Festival December 2009”

This is a segment, of a series of an amateur filming from the balcony.

The audience’s reactions of the film from the balcony.


The audience’s reactions of the film from the balcony.

Below is the documentary clip.

"Words in Flight"

Producer & Director; Maren Sounders

"N.W. Homegrown Documentary Festival December 2009”

Featuring Pam Clark.

Parrot Consultant.

From Portland Oregon.

Viewed at:

Portland Oregon's

Mc Menamin's Mission Theater.

Also Featuring

Christopher "Birdman" Driggins;

Founder of N.W. Bird Rescue

Vancouver,Washington

11-10-2009 An Upcoming Fall Report on the Yacolt Quakers!!

Sunday October 18th. 2009

Fall in Yacolt Washington.

Glenn Welker Reports...
14 to 16 Quaker Parrots have been seen in his backyard!
Upcoming Report from Yacolt Washington Quakers Coming Soon!

October 31st , 2009 ~~ A Halloweens scare !

October 31st , 2009 ~~ A Halloweens scare !

Sunday October 31st 2009 A Halloween scare of a cold rescue of an escaped exotic bird named" Toby"


During the afternoon of; "Sunday October 31st 2009.
We received a call from the Omar family.
They needed assistance retrieving their Umbrella Cockatoo from a 45-foot tree.
Their bird was startled while on the shoulder of Mr. Omar while he took out the trash.

A volunteer of
911Parrotalert.com was notified immediately, and was on site within 30 minutes.

Irena from Portland Oregon’s division of: 911parottalert.com volunteer holding "Toby" after his capture.

Irena of 911parottalert.com climbed out of her sick bed with the Swine flu to help capture "Toby.”
Irena is the true heroin of this story.
She stayed on sight for over two hours until we arrived. "Toby" Wet and confused, but saved from danger's from the wildlife of the Great Northwest.
"Toby"

Falling asleep after a long day in the tree.

The Omar’s with Irena in the background say goodbye and now start to enjoy their Halloweens night.

July 30, 2009 Northwest Bird Rescue & Parrott 911 Alert Collaborate to help Reunite Escaped Bird.

July 30, 2009 Northwest Bird Rescue & Parrott 911 Alert Collaborate to help Reunite Escaped Bird.

Source; The Lake Oswego Review,

July 30, 2009

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Errant parrot captured after six days on the lam The Lake Oswego Review, Jul 30, 2009, Updated Jul 30, 2009 SUBMITTED PHOTO SHEILA HORNOCKER

Source; The Lake Oswego Review, July 30, 2009

http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/news/story.php?story_id=124890304058578200

Errant parrot captured after six days on the lam
The Lake Oswego Review, Jul 30, 2009, Updated Jul 30, 2009

Sebastian, a scarlet Macaw, was safely at home after six days in a tree and a harrowing rescue. Many people in the Westridge neighborhood were involved in saving Sebastian from his ill-fated flight.
SUBMITTED PHOTO SHEILA HORNOCKER


Sebastian, a scarlet Macaw who was being bird-sat by Shiela and Bill Hornocker, flew from their Lake Oswego home in the Westridge neighborhood on July 16 and found himself stuck 60 feet up in a neighboring Douglas fir.
Despite cajoling from Sheila, Sebastian refused to come down or be quiet. His response to all who tried to talk him from the limb was a noisy “Hello, cracker.”

The Hornockers contacted Irene Thorensen, a bird expert from 9-1-1 Parrot Alert in Gresham, who was convinced the only way to bring Sebastian down was to soak his feathers so he couldn’t fly. Flying is a learned behavior for most Macaws, and something they will not do naturally. Encouraging Sebastian to fly down would most likely be in vain.
For a 50-foot spray to reach the bird, the operation required the Lake Oswego Fire Department which accommodated with a truck and three firemen.
But before the LOFD could dampen his wings, Sebastian got wind of the plan and flew to another tree a block away. He stayed there for two days.
While the children of the neighborhood did their best to talk Sebastian down with bribes of food and water, the unflappable bird continued on to a tree at the home of Linda Graybeal where he stayed for another three days.

By July 21, the officials at the Northwest Bird Rescue service informed the Hornockers that if Sebastian did not come down for food and water, he would most likely perish in the tree.
To save Sebastian, Bill Hornocker called Coast Crane Company, which donated a cherry picker to save the bird.
With the street loaded with onlookers and a lemonade stand set up for the crowd, the cherry picker stretched slowly up towards the bird. When every hose the Hornockers owned was strung together to reach from the spigot to the tree, the spray just managed to dampen the bird.
However, while he was now wet and immobilized from flying, Sebastian was still stuck in the tree.
In a heroic effort, neighbor Brandon Parr, climbed 50 feet up the tree to grab the bird, but with each reach the bird squawked and moved further out a branch.
Finally, Parr began to bounce Sebastian’s branch. Gripping for his life, Sebastian spun around and around the branch and finally dropped to the branch below. Parr continued the bouncing technique, and after three hours, Sebastian was safely at the bottom of the tree.
“Wet, hungry and scared, Sebastian was thrilled to be in the arms of someone friendly,” said Sheila. “The neighbors gave a big cheer to the rescuers.”
The Hornockers — and possibly Sebastian — were grateful for the support from their Westridge neighbors, the LOFD, Northwest Bird Rescue, 911 Parrot Alert, Coast Crane Company, and the neighborhood bird-whisperer, Brandon Parr.