On August 29, 2004, we were waiting for a family to surrender a dog to our rescue program.  I'd seen something fluttering in the road, and assumed it was just a leaf.  A few moments later Ed began to yell, "NO! NO!" and hurried into the intersection and rescued Cordelia, the green English Budgie, shown on the right. 

Of course, parakeets can't live a solitary existence, so my very good friend Liz gave me Stanwood, an American Parakeet, shown on the left.  The birds came to me right after my genealogical trip to Maine, and so I selected names of ancestors & their descendants.  Cordelia Stanwood was a cousin to one of my ancestors, and was a famous ornithologist who had a bird sanctuary in Ellsworth, Maine in the 1800's.

Next came Georgie, an English Parakeet with olive coloring.
Ed jokingly (?) said that if he knew what rescuing Cordelia was going to start, he'd have left her in the intersection.
No, I don't believe him!

Stanwood, Bella (named after my great-grandmother Susan Belle Stanwood), Georgie and Cordelia.

By November the flock increased.
Bella, Hannah, Benjamin, Humphrey and Stanwood.
Unfortunately, Benjamin died three weeks after joining us due to a respiratory infection.
We learned the hard way about following the rules - quarantine new birds!

The birds move to their larger home.

Email