Yesterday, as it was getting warmer (after the rain stopped) I found out how Charlotte had "discovered" the secret to getting out the sliding glass door's screen. I watched briefly as she tried to go between the glass and the screen. It was clear that as she got to the end, the screen (which is old and in need of replacement) would simply pop out of the track from the pressure of her pushing through the existing gap between the glass and screen. The normal gap is a couple of inches, but there's enough give in the screen itself that with mild pressure it increases to 3 or even 4 inches.
That means we can't leave the sliding door more than an inch or so at night, or any time we're not able to keep an eye on her activities. She has developed a taste for the outdoors. We didn't rescue the first bird in time to save it, but the second one was able to fly away after a couple minutes recovery. We've moved the sunflower seed feed out into the yard to give them a fighting chance of survival. Right now it's on a branch in a small tree, but we have a 6 foot pole coming that should put the ones on the feeder out of her jumping range.
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