I had simelar last year , got a call from a woman who got my number off rspca of all people,luckily was only few miles away , went down to collect the bird and it was flying around, left a basket in her garden with some seed in , she called next night to say she had bird in basket on arrival discovered it was a lovely mosaic cock but not mine, mine was never seen again. the mosaic belonged to a chap in carlisle, a few days r&r and he was on his way again non the worse for his experience