Couple recounts effort to trace down Emu who made a break for it in Marston Mills – Boston Information, Climate, Sports activities

BARNSTABLE, MASS. (WHDH) – An emu made a break for it in Marston Mills. The fowl named Walter left the Olde Homestead Farms on Sunday whereas his house owners had been away.

Joan Spiegel and Russell Gianmarco say they solely knew that Walter had escaped once they received an emergency alert that somebody on the town had seen an emu.

“We had been an hour and a half away, drove as quick as we might and alerted all of the shops,” Spiegel stated.

The couple and their son posted, asking if anybody had seen the emu.

“We had sightings after which extra sightings,” Spiegel stated.

Ultimately, the tracked it down in Clifford Circle in Sandwich the place their son was capable of re-capture the fowl.

“After traversing a bunch of golf programs and wooded areas, he was capable of kind of sit on him and subdue him after he received actually drained, so then we hooked him up, put him within the trailer, and received him house safely final evening,” Spiegel stated.

Spiegel and Gianmarco say Walter is a little bit over a yr outdated and got here to them from Maine. He lives on the farm and other people typically come by to observe him run and play.

They are saying Walter’s journey took him throughout city.

“I do know that he traversed individuals’s backyards and pond areas,’ Gianmarco stated. “He ended up like three miles, 4 miles from right here… I do know there have been some points with some neighbors, vehicles, etcetera that had passed by him and he’s run away so he didn’t actually keep in a single place for very lengthy.”