Help Requested for Lost Love Bird

Note: This is a sad story that was sent to us by Ledyard resident John Wood. We hope it can have a happier ending.

My wife and I have a parakeet and a cockatiel. A week ago our love bird flew off my shoulder in the dark of night. It on Sunday, Oct. 9, at about 8 p.m. I started to step out the front door of our home at 208 Gallup Hill Road. I didn't realize he was on my shoulder. He (Romeo) panicked, I guess, and flew up and away into the dark night.

We called him and for a while could hear his chirping, then no more. We had him for 4 years. The original owners had him for 14. He would not have been at all prepared to deal with the dangers of life outside the home. Most likely he either starved to death or was food for some preying animal or bird.

Concentrating on the slim chance that he survived and went to someone's bird feeder/home...and was possibly taken into someone's home, we had a notice placed in the Ledyard Facebook, via a kind lady in the Gales Ferry Library. (Romeo is the one in the attached photo that has a green body with an orange head).

Romeo is (or was) a wonderful bird. We loved him very much, spent much time with him...and our other birds miss him, too. Please respond with any information. I'm retired, so I'm at home most of the time. Our phone number is: 860 536-4972.

Thank you very much.