A family from the Wirral were shocked to find an unusual guest in their garden yesterday.
Danny Hanson, along with his children Aiden, Callum and Lydia were preparing for their usual morning run yesterday when they stumbled across an injured parrot in their back garden.
At the time they had no idea where the exotic animal came from. It was weak and looked lost, barely able to move from the spot by the shed where they found him.
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But, thanks to the efforts of the family to give it food, water and rest, soon the bird was on the road to recovery. They put out a notice on Facebook and soon found that images of the lost parrot had already been circulating local groups.
Soon the owner was found, and the lost bird, which they discovered was an African Grey parrot, returned home.
Mr Hanson said: “We were getting ready for school in the morning with the kids and I went into the back garden to get their bikes with them, and as we were pushing our bikes through to the front we saw him.
“The kids were made up really. They were running around getting boxes and towels to wrap it in.
“We had some birdseed, so we gave him a little bowl of birdseed and water and brought him in. The kids loved it.
“I asked on Facebook if anyone knew who’s it was and then got inundated with messages, apparently it’d been all over Facebook but we knew nothing about it.
“It was a lovely looking parrot but it was dead weak, you could tell. It couldn’t really stand up and it was flopping around. But by the time he left and he’d had some birdseed he seemed to be moving around a little bit more.
“But when the owner arrived he started kissing them and stuff like that, that’s when he really started looking better.”
