A large, tropical parrot spooked 70 feet up a cottonwood tree was retrieved when a neighbor scaled an adjacent spruce and coaxed it from its perch early Monday.

It was a rough Sunday night for Midas, a pet macaw.

The green-headed, blue and gold bird was on a deck at the Cemetery Hill home of pet-sitter Kimberle Whittaker, who lets him out when temperatures warm up over 50 degrees. Whittaker and friend Rick Mapes were…