Green Cheeks... Conure or Houdini?

It seems for the past few nights when I put the birds to bed, Cheney Bird decides he is not ready for bed and breaks out of his cage. He wants to cuddle for a little bit, so when he gets out of the cage, he pokes his head out under the sheet and purrs.

Does anyone else have a GCC (or any other bird) that does this?

Merlin managed to sneak out the first couple of nights he came home, but I think it was my fault for not closing the food and water doors well enough, he doesn't escape anymore (though I'm sure he still tries).

RogerP wrote:

Merlin managed to sneak out the first couple of nights he came home, but I think it was my fault for not closing the food and water doors well enough, he doesn't escape anymore (though I'm sure he still tries).

Cheney Bird can unscrew the pear links for toys that I put on the doors. It's not much of a problem until he can see light, then he breaks out for super fun play time.

Scooter actually seems to get like an overtired kid at bedtime... he's agitated but not really using brain cells to escape (plus the spring latches on his cage are beyond his strength.)

Our escape artist is Scotty, whose feeder doors are subject to user error... he'll push his way out while I'm still removing the cup for one thing! And should I not get the bolt "home" afteward, he'll be hanging on the cagetop when we come home. He knows as soon as he pushes out, he goes right back in, but he steps right up and offers me a kiss anyway. Silly bird.

I've had to rig and modify all the cages to keep Sparrow in. He is a mess!

There are evenings/nights that I have to force budgies to go to their cage Little cute Monsters! Lately Chico is hanging on her "sombrero" from $store outside the cage and I have to put her in.
I don't want to even imagine that Lucky will start doing the same...

Ah, the good ol' days of buying padlocks in multipacks. . .

I just took the bottom grate out to go wash it outside and rainbow stayed in the cage the entire time even though it would have been sooo easy just to climb out the bottom to freedom...! She was even making her "I want to come out" noises and body language combo when I reentered the house. No houdinis in this house, it appears... I literally have to leave the food doors unlatched and slightly open for her to figure out how to get out (which happened once while I was at school. My dad was very surprised to find rainbow happily preening on top of her cage. She even closed the food door after her so when my dad put her away she got out again.)

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Ah, the good ol' days of buying padlocks in multipacks. . .

moa wrote:

I just took the bottom grate out to go wash it outside and rainbow stayed in the cage the entire time even though it would have been sooo easy just to climb out the bottom to freedom...! She was even making her "I want to come out" noises and body language combo when I reentered the house.

If the grate is out of Cheney Bird's cage, he comes right on out. If he feels I did not wake up soon enough to let him out, he lets himself out and flies to my bed where he then perches on my head until I wake up. He lets himself out if he feels I've put him to bed too early.

A slightly opened door would be more than an invitation for him to let himself out.