A woman needed a team of fire fighters to come to her rescue after she became stuck up a tree trying to catch an escaped parrot.
Leanne Jones, 32, told how her sister became stranded and was rescued by the fire service who were unable to capture the bird.
She then hired a cherry picker herself before going up in a bid to try and save the parrot.
Detailing the incident Leanne said she was eating lunch with her baby macaw Missy last Friday when it flew away into a tree.
She stayed outside with the bird all night waiting for her to come down but instead in the morning it flew into another tree.
Her sister Toni-Anne, 33, tried to scale the tree in Trowbridge, but got stuck.
Leanne said: "My sister is a bit like Houdini, and I was like, 'uh do you think you can try and get up this tree?
"It was so windy - she was like, 'I'm stuck!'"
Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue received a call at 9:51am and sent rescue crews from Trowbridge and Chippenham.
They called for one fire engine from Warminster and Devizes equipped with a 12m ladder so they could reach Toni-Anne and help her down.
Sadly, the crews were not able to retrieve the bird - so foster carer Leanne paid £100 to hire a cherry picker and go up herself.
She said: "I'm absolutely terrified of heights, but I didn't want to risk her flying off. She didn't budge, she let me pick her up and and was kissing all over my face. She was freezing cold and very hungry but she was fine."
Leanne, a mum of four, had just got Missy who was only 23 weeks old.
She said: "She hadn't flown before and so it was completely my fault. I was sat in the garden having lunch with her and she was just sat on the table with me, pinching bit of lunch off my nephew's plate.
"She was just eating blueberries and bananas and she was flapping her wings as parrots do, and then she just took off."
Leanne continued: "I was trying to call her down she had loads of seagulls flying around, I think she was like 'oh my gosh, what's going on?'
"She couldn't figure out how to swoop down so went in a circle, she was bullied a bit by seagulls and went over my house by my garden.
"By the time I'd got round the back I didn't know where she was."
Eventually they found the blue and yellow bird in Trowbridge Lodge Park in a tree in a garden and after spending the night waiting for the bird to come down she then flew to another tree.
This was when Toni-Anne thought she could give it a try, but unfortunately got stuck and had to be rescued by Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue.
The fire crews were not able to rescue the bird, and the RSPB couldn't help until after 24 hours, but Leanne didn't want to wait a moment longer and hired a cherry picker for £100.
Terrified of heights, Leanne then made her way up the tree where Missy allowed her to pick her up and take her to safety.
She said: "I was shaking like a leaf getting down!
"It really is amazing, so many people out looking for Missy, so many people were offering to help and turning up with poles. Don't assume a baby parrot can't fly!"
A statement from Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue said: "We of course understand the emotional attachments to pets of any species, but please take this incident as a reminder of the danger posed by attempting to rescue without any specialist assistance."
