By Sibylle Saunders, Vermont

My husband, Tom, and I went climbing on a beautiful Vermont fall day. We went to a nearby pond, where by we heard a amount of birds. From throughout the pond came a person bird sound we did not identify. The fowl bought nearer and nearer. Was it a cardinal? A warbler?

All of a sudden the chook flew about us to a tree, and we noticed a flash of color. We then recognized it was a cockatiel. Someone’s pet ought to have gotten unfastened.

It referred to as to us, and we begun calling back. Tom pulled out peanuts and raisins from his backpack. As a farm boy he experienced acquired to lie down to draw in wandering heifers, relying on their curiosity. The process worked for this cockatiel much too. The hen landed and commenced eating the nuts. It have to have been starving.