Love living in a small town!

**FJRider** · 23rd July 2008, 18:12

So how goes it with the Tui ??? sorry to get off topic...

**Mom** · 25th July 2008, 09:14

Originally Posted by FJRider

So how goes it with the Tui ??? sorry to get off topic...

Just got off the phone from the Vet. The Tui is ready to come home and be released. Will pick it up this afternoon and set it free. Will take a pic too and post it up.

**Mom** · 25th July 2008, 17:56

Further to above. As the weather is most certainly going to be total and absolute shite here for the next couple of days at least, the vet does not want the Tui released today. Instead, he has authorised us to take it home (it is illegal to cage a native bird apparently) with instructions on feeding etc, until the weather clears.

He says it will sing! I hope it does not wake when most Tui's do up here. That would be about half an hour before sunrise...LOL

Keep you all posted.

**jafar** · 26th July 2008, 16:50

Originally Posted by Mom

Further to above. As the weather is most certainly going to be total and absolute shite here for the next couple of days at least, the vet does not want the Tui released today. Instead, he has authorised us to take it home (it is illegal to cage a native bird apparently) with instructions on feeding etc, until the weather clears.

He says it will sing! I hope it does not wake when most Tui's do up here. That would be about half an hour before sunrise...LOL

Keep you all posted.

Feed it some 'tui's" for Maha's birthday

**Mom** · 26th July 2008, 17:03

Originally Posted by jafar

Feed it some 'tui's" for Maha's birthday

Twas the fermented stuff that got it in trouble in the first place...LOL

It likes banana, I mash it a bit for him and some honey water. Friggen dumb thing when I fed it this afternoon. I am putting the food and lolly water at one end so he can get to the floor and eat. No, this silly thing was hanging upside down on the perch to eat and drink

Tui's are mental birds.

**jafar** · 26th July 2008, 17:20

Originally Posted by Mom

Twas the fermented stuff that got it in trouble in the first place...LOL

It likes banana, I mash it a bit for him and some honey water. Friggen dumb thing when I fed it this afternoon. I am putting the food and lolly water at one end so he can get to the floor and eat. No, this silly thing was hanging upside down on the perch to eat and drink

Tui's are mental birds.

Well @ least he is able to get there for marks b'day

**Mom** · 28th July 2008, 07:53

Today was the day, we have blue skies, no wind or rain and it is time for the little Tui to be let go!

Took the cage outside, wow it got really excited! Opened the cage door and stood back. It sat there for a moment then heads up and flew strainght out of the cage and up in to the Totara's at the back of the section.

Great feeling!

Hope it stays off the old tangelos!