I’m glad that you and your mother are concerned for this little lovie that seems to have lost its way somehow.  Depending on where you are located, you are right that the lovebird might not have the capability to survive the winter.  Good news is that you have some time to try to figure out how to capture him!

 

I would imagine that at some point in time, this lovebird was a pet or at least used to a cage and being offered food.  I would suggest taking a dish outside that is full of small parrot seed and placing this dish in the area that your mother most often sees the bird.  Your goal with this is to see if you can get the lovebird to eat from the dish.  Once you see that the lovebird is eating out of the dish (you’d have to actually SEE the lovebird doing this, as wild birds are just as likely to try eating out of the dish as well), you can slowly start moving the dish each day closer and closer to a cage that you can have stationed outside.  As long as the lovebird returns and looks for the dish, it should follow where ever you move the dish each day.  Don’t move it very far each time, so the lovebird definitely can see it and feels comfortable with it.  Eventually, you can inch the dish right inside on the floor of the cage.  Prop the door open so the lovebird can get in there to eat the seed.  Once in the cage, pull the prop out of the door to close it.

 

Good luck trying to capture this little lovie!  I’ve never found one in the wild before, so this is what I’ve come up with by thinking about lovebirds and knowing how much they love their seed. J