Parrot missing for two days is rescued from a tree after being lured down with a bag of Wotsits
- 10 months ago
A pet parrot which went missing for two days was eventually rescued from a 60ft (18m) tree after being lured down with a bag of WOTSITS.
Mango the macaw flew out of a window at the care home where she lives after being spooked by a thunder storm at around 2pm on Sunday afternoon (9/7).
Owner Karen Godwin, 52, went searching the local area in Great Barr, Birmingham, but was left devastated when the missing bird failed to respond to her calls.
But on Tuesday morning (11/7) Mango was spotted two roads away up a huge pine tree after the family heard her squawking "Hello".
Fire crews and roofers failed to reach the stricken bird because their ladders weren't long enough and bin men even stopped to try and help by using their lunch as bait.
Karen decided to put out an appeal on social media before tree surgeon Nathan McKane offered to help and arrived within the hour.
He used ropes to clamber up the tree before enticing the peckish parrot towards him using a packet of the cheesy snacks from one of the bin men's lunchboxes.
But Mango refused to budge and was calling out "say please" as Nathan tried to lure her using her favourite treat.
After eventually taking the bait, he managed to grab the colourful bird before sliding back down the tree to reunite Mango with her delighted owner after 46 hours.
Karen, who runs The Willows care home with her husband Stephen, 52, said: "I've always been an animal-lover and Mango is sort of my bird - she is very sociable with everyone though and is just lovely.
"All my clients and staff love her so when my son called to say she had gone missing on Sunday during a storm we were devastated.
"We sat out until 9pm that night, I didn't sleep a wink and got up at 4am to go out again calling for her. We drove around the local area putting up posters.
"Two days passed and I pretty much had a meltdown and was in tears because I gave up hope of seeing her again.
"We'd had all this rain and knew she would be wet and cold, I wasn't sure she'd know how to feed in the wild too so we expected the worst.
"I had called the fire station in West Bromwich who advised me to call 999 but they wouldn't send anybody in case firefighters fell off a ladder, weirdly enough.
"But on Tuesday fire crews did agree to come out when somebody said she heard Mango calling from a tree on the street behind our house.
"I said 'no that's just a blackbird' but then all of a sudden as clear as day you could hear her calling out 'Hello'.
"I was still in my pyjamas and dashed around to the roads behind us and there she was sat 60ft up in the air in a birch tree.
"She started getting very animated saying all the words she knows - like' hello', 'Mango', 'feed me' and a bit rudely calling out t**t.
"When fire crews came out they said their ladders weren't long enough and to call in a tree surgeon.
"We put an appeal out for help and lots of people volunteered but said they couldn't get out to us until the following day.
Mango the macaw flew out of a window at the care home where she lives after being spooked by a thunder storm at around 2pm on Sunday afternoon (9/7).
Owner Karen Godwin, 52, went searching the local area in Great Barr, Birmingham, but was left devastated when the missing bird failed to respond to her calls.
But on Tuesday morning (11/7) Mango was spotted two roads away up a huge pine tree after the family heard her squawking "Hello".
Fire crews and roofers failed to reach the stricken bird because their ladders weren't long enough and bin men even stopped to try and help by using their lunch as bait.
Karen decided to put out an appeal on social media before tree surgeon Nathan McKane offered to help and arrived within the hour.
He used ropes to clamber up the tree before enticing the peckish parrot towards him using a packet of the cheesy snacks from one of the bin men's lunchboxes.
But Mango refused to budge and was calling out "say please" as Nathan tried to lure her using her favourite treat.
After eventually taking the bait, he managed to grab the colourful bird before sliding back down the tree to reunite Mango with her delighted owner after 46 hours.
Karen, who runs The Willows care home with her husband Stephen, 52, said: "I've always been an animal-lover and Mango is sort of my bird - she is very sociable with everyone though and is just lovely.
"All my clients and staff love her so when my son called to say she had gone missing on Sunday during a storm we were devastated.
"We sat out until 9pm that night, I didn't sleep a wink and got up at 4am to go out again calling for her. We drove around the local area putting up posters.
"Two days passed and I pretty much had a meltdown and was in tears because I gave up hope of seeing her again.
"We'd had all this rain and knew she would be wet and cold, I wasn't sure she'd know how to feed in the wild too so we expected the worst.
"I had called the fire station in West Bromwich who advised me to call 999 but they wouldn't send anybody in case firefighters fell off a ladder, weirdly enough.
"But on Tuesday fire crews did agree to come out when somebody said she heard Mango calling from a tree on the street behind our house.
"I said 'no that's just a blackbird' but then all of a sudden as clear as day you could hear her calling out 'Hello'.
"I was still in my pyjamas and dashed around to the roads behind us and there she was sat 60ft up in the air in a birch tree.
"She started getting very animated saying all the words she knows - like' hello', 'Mango', 'feed me' and a bit rudely calling out t**t.
"When fire crews came out they said their ladders weren't long enough and to call in a tree surgeon.
"We put an appeal out for help and lots of people volunteered but said they couldn't get out to us until the following day.