Wayward budgie

I was saddened to read about the efforts to capture the wayward budgie in Vernon. 

The poor bird has been lucky enough to escape a life of captivity in a two foot square cage and people want to capture it and incarcerate it again! 

Why not feed it, celebrate its freedom and if it's still around come winter, then try to catch it? Even if the brave little fellow succumbs to predators or evades capture and doesn't make it through the winter, it will still have lived more than a hundred of its cage bound brethren put together.

Harry Foster