Lost yellow budgie puzzles Grade 4 students

Grade 4 students at Yellowknifes J.H. Sissons school are puzzled over a lost yellow budgie that showed up in their schoolyard Tuesday.

Yolande Allain, the teacher who has taken responsibility for the budgie, says it was found in the playground.

"The bird was very friendly and very approachable and so beautiful," she said.

"It was amazing how close we could get to the bird and we would just put out our hand and it would perch right there on our finger, on our shoulder, arm. That's when I said this bird has been loved, this bird has been well taken care of. This bird needs to find its owner."

Allain found a cage, bought food and a water dish. She took it home Tuesday night and brought it back to school Wednesday. Now it's going from classroom to classroom spending time with the kids.

A second budgie, this one green, has been spotted flying loose in the city. The Sissons students believe the two to be brother and sister and are now determined to reunite the pair, because they have learnedbudgies snuggle together for warmth to survive colder climates.