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Free Printable Bird Cage Patent Art

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These six bird cage patent art printables are a tribute to our feathered friends and the return of spring! Let the chirping commence!

Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?
David Attenborough

I’ve had the (occasional) pleasure of living with precisely three birds in my life. The first was a cockatiel named Marty, and he was a family pet when I was small. Marty has an incredible life story. Besides consuming more iceberg lettuce than any bird in the Connecticut River Valley in the early 1980s, Marty was a domesticated bird that escaped on a two-week, unsupervised, unchaperoned, and entirely unauthorized adventure.

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He was a smartish avian – more so than most of his bird-brained peers. Marty loved nothing more than to ride along on my mother’s shoulder as she went about her domestic activities. Washing the dishes? Marty was there. Eating breakfast? On the shoulder. Outside on the patio or working in the yard? Yep, Marty on board. So you might imagine my mother’s shock and dismay when one day while puttering about the patio behind the house, Marty flew the coop shoulder. No one knows why he decided to take wing that day. Was it some dormant instinct roused by watching birds wheeling above? Or maybe he was leaving avian adolescence, and he realized there was more to this world than just a shoulder and a cage. Whatever the reason, Marty flew, and he never looked back.

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Of course, my mother was despondent. Her constant companion had bolted without so much as a valedictory squawk. Most would have shed their tears and carried on with life. It was a bird, after all. They’re not known for sniffing around the neighborhood and returning home for dinner.

Lost bird.
Gray cockatiel with red cheeks. Responds to Marty.
Very tame. Likes shoulders and iceberg lettuce.
If found, please call 203-555-0837.

But my mother was determined. She called the local newspaper. She took out an ad in the classifieds, or whichever section catered to lost pets and causes.

I’m sure the editors at The Glastonbury Citizen had a good chuckle over that particular submission!

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The hours after Marty’s departure rolled into days, and the days stretched into weeks. I’d all but forgotten the winged escapist and moved on with my life. But my mother never gave up hope. We told her to forget about Marty. Reggie the poodle was still going strong – focus on him! Or get a new bird – how about a parrot this time? Something that talks?

She was having none of it.

Well, you can’t force a broken heart to heal, so we let her be.

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And then one morning, the phone rang.

Now, a morning phone call wasn’t uncommon. In fact, my nana (mom’s mom) called every morning at 8:30. This call served two purposes: it let us know she hadn’t keeled over in the night, and it was a perfect opportunity to regale my mother with the contents of her insubstantial breakfast. “I generally eat half a bananer in the morning,” was a refrain I heard on more than one occasion.

But this particular morning, the person on the other end of the line wasn’t my nana. It was a woman who lived 5 miles (as the crow cockatiel flies) from my childhood home. She was out in her garden when, to her great shock and surprise, a gray bird alighted on her shoulder! Now, normally, the woman would have rightly shrieked and shooed the feathered beast away, but just that morning at breakfast, she had read my mother’s ad in the local paper. Like the editors at the paper, she too had a chuckle, thinking the woman who lost the bird had also lost a few marbles. Yet here it was, and there she was! Quietly, stealthily, she sidled inside lest Marty fly once more, leaving nothing but a white and watery calling card on the poor woman’s shoulder. Once inside, she dialed the number written in the ad, and within the hour, my mother had her beloved Marty back on her shoulder.

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Marty lived a long and happy life eating mountains of iceberg lettuce. He never suffered any disease, and when it was his time to go, he just dropped to the bottom of the cage. No theatrics, no lingering malaise. Alive one moment, paper weight the next. Marty was a class act. He knew the score.

Now, you’re probably wondering about the other birds – numbers two and three. Well, they’re a different story altogether, and one I told a few years ago. You can read all about them here, in one of the posts I wrote about our year in Vietnam.

Now that you’ve read about a few caged birds, it’s time to download and enjoy some bird cage patent art.

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We love to see our printables out in the wild! If you display our free printables in your home or use our free SVGs in your projects, and take a picture and post it on Instagram, be sure to tag us @TheNavagePatch!

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As usual, here is some information on the printables: we designed these free printable birdcage patent art in three colors and to fit into a 16×20 inch frame or a 24×36 poster frame, though you may scale them up or down as necessary. 24×36 inch scales down easily to 20×30 / 16×24 / 12×18 / 8×12 / 4×6 inches, and 16×20 inch scales down to 12×15 / 8×10 / 4×5 inches with no problems. If you need help with scaling down these printables so you can print them using your home printer, then check out our “How To Easily Resize Pictures” post.

Note:  If you don’t have a large format printer like the Canon i8720 Printer (prints up to 13×19 inches) and are wondering the best place to get these large printables printed bigger than 8×12, we recommend trying Staples in your area or Amazon print shop. Both stores offer custom-sized prints on matte or glossy paper, and they both cost about the same. Staples also offers Engineering Prints, which are really affordable for large-format prints, but in some areas (like ours), they must be ordered from their online print shop.

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17 Comments

  1. Just to let you know, I look forward to your stories and posts each week. I have been following forever and always recommend your site. Keep up the great work!

  2. “Alive one moment, paper weight the next.” Now that made me snort my coffee. Glad your Mom got Marty back though.

  3. Thanks! We just bought a 122 year old Queen Anne home and will be moving soon. I was looking for something to go with my Audobon bird prints. I cant wait to have them printed out and framed and start decorating our dream home with these! I will have to share a picture once I have them up.

  4. Fun story as always, and especially so as a bird lover here(not a pet bird owner however). Love the printables, thank you.
    PS: I know this site is free and I totally get that you have a right to have ads (your site after all lol) but just want to say that after 4 attempts, I gave up on reading bcoz every time, the ads were blocking the content. If I clicked x, of course the blank box still blocks content and they ask for feedback. You can even say it’s bcoz it’s blocking content but needless to say, another ad pops up to block again. In fact, I couldn’t type my comment without getting blocked by ads again and again…so I typed in notepad and pasted it here lol. I am not criticizing as you have a right to earn from ads, I respect that totally. Just found it a bit annoying that I couldn’t read the story without ads constantly blocking continuously without a break.

    1. Hi Rupa, I’m so sorry about that. Our ad partner is having some technical issues right now, and unfortunately, it’s affecting a lot of websites. This is not how it’s supposed to work, and I apologize for this inconvenience. I’m hoping there are still some people working so it gets sorted quickly.

  5. oh my goodness this story had my emotions all over the place…i started with awwwe how cute marty the bird, to that little ungrateful s**t how can he do that, to lmao when you said our nana called every morning to let us know she didn’t keeled overnight, to teary eyed for your mom, to yaaaaay he came back, to teary eyed again cuz i know your mom was happy………..thank you so much for always providing your stories with such details….love you guys….hugs and kisses for the puppers

  6. Great art and story! I live in senior housing and was good friends with a woman from Ireland who always kept at least one caged canary in her apartment. She got cancer and decided not to treat since her sister had treated the same kind of cancer and lingered in torment for many years. One day this feisty Irish woman decided the pain was too much, was transported to hospice and died within the week. Her nephew was caring for her latest canary “Earl” in her apartment and woke up to find him dead in the bottom of the cage. He had died in the night the day his owner died. So glad your mother and her bird soul mate found each other again.

  7. Hello! I am asking for some more assistance with the free printables. You mention having them printed through Staples, but I cannot find where on their site. Would you be so kind to give a little more information about specifically where to go on Staples to get them printed? I tried the document printing but they don’t offer the size I need (16 x 20) for the patent print I’m trying to order. I also checked the poster section but they’re too big. Please help if you can.
    Thank you so much and I’m so happy I found your site!
    Helen

    1. Hi Helen, we haven’t had them printed at Staples in years, so their site may have changed. We now prefer Office Depot, and they’ve been doing a great job!