A missing Nottinghamshire parrot has enjoyed the "adventure of a lifetime". Bruce, the 17-week-old green cheeked-conure, flew out of his front door on Thursday (February 2) morning and was found on a school child's head in a playground the following day.
Aimee Summers, 42, from Harlequin near Radcliffe-on-Trent, usually has a safety mechanism for when Bruce is flying around the house. Her husband normally texts when he is on the way home to make sure Bruce is back in his cage - but on this occasion he forgot.
Aimee, a practice development midwife at Nottingham University Hospitals, said: "I was distraught, I put loads of posters up around the village and on social media. Everyone was looking for him. Generally with young birds they don't fly very far and they are a prey animal so their instinct is to hide and not to fly. We looked within a half mile radius of the house thinking he could not possibly have crossed the A52."
