SimonSarah
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We moved into a maisonette in North London a year ago. There's a deck above our kitchen that we climb out of the window to access and there's the top of tree there at eye level. We put out feeders and immediately got lots of tits ,starlings , goldfinch etc. Within a couple of months the Indian ring necked parakeets found us. Regularly half a dozen to a dozen in the morning and late afternoon. the record is 23. Endlessly entertaining. I even started going to bed earlier this summer because the noisy buggers would be there shortly after sunrise. For the last 4 months or so there's been one smaller one that my partner Sarah named Mr Bedraggled due to his poor state. Lots of feather missing always on his own, relatively small and frequently bullied by others. He's become a regular fixture and walks around the tree where the others walk and fly between branches. We presume he's ill. Anyway today there was a vicious and sustained attack on Mr Bedraggled by one to the other parakeets and he fell out of the tree and Sarah found him 2 floors down on the pavement between and electrical box and the wall. She wrapped him up in her jacket and brought him inside and put him in a large box. She called the RSPCA who came around but didn't hand him over as the woman said that they would put him down as he's an invasive species and that he looked quite perky. Sarah's reluctant to release him back out into the tree while he is in his current state and would like to see if he can be nursed into a better state . She googled a bit and has read a bit about different infections and would like to treat him with antibiotics before releasing him. She ordered the only cage she could find that could be delivered tomorrow but its more a decent sized budgie cage but she wants him out of the box asap. Any advice on nursing poorly parakeets greatly appreciated