How did my bird get out of her locked cage?

This literally just happened. It’s twenty to two in the morning and something very, very weird just happened to me.

I live in a small, one bedroom apartment with no one but my two budgies for company.

I got up shortly after two AM to pee and went back to bed. I wasn’t asleep and so I heard when one of my budgies, names Hawk, started freaking out in her cage, flapping her wings inside the small space and jumping around. They do that in the night if they get scared.

I get up and go over to talk to her, tell her it’s okay, whatever, and notice the external speaker I use for my iPod- and that I had plugged in early in the evening- is ready to be unplugged. I go over to the couch and lean on it because the electrical outlet is behind the couch and I hear a squawk and a flutter of wings.

My other budgie, Oscar, is out of her cage. I immediately turn on the light and check Oscar’s cage. It is empty. The door is closed and the towel I cover her cage with is still draped over the top. I pull the couch out from the wall but I do t see the bird.

I am a little panicky. I don’t know how Oscar got out of her cage- there are no budgie-sized holes in it and I KNOW she was in it before I went to bed. I remember looking at her as I put the towel over her cage. If I’d accidentally left the door open there is no way she would be able to close it herself. And I’m sure I’d hear it if she flew around the living room in the dark.

Anyway, I look around the couch and see Oscar by the armchair. I take her cage down from it’s shelf and put it on the floor. She doesn’t go into it. Instead she flies up and lands on the outside of Hawk’s cage. I put Oscar’s cage back, door open, hoping she goes in. I am not in the mood to play around, I have to get up for work at 5:30 and want to get some more sleep in.

Oscar goes into her cage about two minutes later. I closed the door firmly, put the towel over the top of the cage and turn out the light.

I have no clue how Oscar got out of her cage or for how long she was out for. I am positive she was inside her cage when I closed the door and not clinging to the bars on the outside, like she does sometimes, when I put her to bed. They are not very tame but they know when it starts getting dark, they go into their cages and sit on their perch, ready to get ‘tucked in’.

So, I am left asking myself “what happened?” Did I just not notice Oscar was outside her cage when I went to bed, did she somehow get out of her cage, or... did someone or something let her out?

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