I'll go first:

My first grey (actually it was my son's but I inherited her)       Talon     Timneh   Age: 20 years       My second:  Rikki  (rescued from a member here)  Congo   Age: 20 Years         Nilah   Amazon    Age: 16 Years

Wishing you and years a blessed Thanksgiving and a joyous upcoming Christmas season!

Im just tired of this and was going to keep my good backup and keep rolling it back, but that would be stupid, anything you took time to post would be lost. And I am tired of cleaning the mess up so I just paid the $199.

I Hope that gets us over the hump as the updated software has a patch in it. Im sure Talon will appreciate not having to look at red warning flags everytime she logs on. 

I know no one is made of money as you can see that gives us another year of life.

I would appreciate it if folks could chip in $5 or $10 here and there over the next year. Ill keep a running total.

If you don’t have to do it all at once, it isn’t too bad.

So thats it. Next time, ill probably let it go.

The Grey Hotel.  Three Kings Cages on a stainless rolling cart.

Huey enjoying his pre-bedtime snack.

Odie making threats.  Nobody touches Odies snacks.

Greycie being the diva that Greycie always is.   Pure victimhood this one.

I took Alfie with me and this is the first time he's stayed in a hotel. I wasn't sure how he would react but as usual, he took everything in his stride and had a lovely time! I stocked up on all sorts of toys and treats for him which should hopefully last a while.

Here's some photos of our adventure!

Hotel with Alfie in his travel cage/wagon:

Alfie exploring the hotel:

Waiting to get in


Inside!
We saw lots of other parrots and watched all three masterclasses on various topics. There were loads of vendors there selling all sorts of parrot related goodies. It was a great day. Alfie wasn't too worried and enjoyed all the fuss and attention he got- except when people tried to poke their fingers in his cage (why do people do that?!). I warned them but then he gave them an extra stern warning by lunging at them if they didn't get out of the way quick enough!

There was also a free flight display - which wasn't quite as well organised last year. Last year there was one guy with lots of different parrots and he intoduced them all, talked about them for a while and demonstrated them free flying. This year it was a group of people with lots of macaws who let the bird free fly but didn't really talk much. It was impressive to watch them all flocking together but then it went a bit wrong when some seagulls took an interest. One landed on top of a large sign and refused to come back, one got chased into a tree and hunkered down to get away from the seagulls, one ended up on the venue roof and wandered off.

All of the goodies!

Back at the hotel. Alfie was really tired after his busy day so didn't get into too much mischief in the room on the Sunday evening. He just chilled out and had a nice snooze!

All packed up and ready for home

The haul!

One tired birdy, back home and safe

Odie has finally come home after 30+ years.  When I went to see Odie in 2019, my aunt told me she wants Odie to come back to me.  She actually put that in her will.  So when she passed away a in April, I asked my mother who lives in the area to go get Odie.  Four weeks later I hit the road to New Mexico.  Unlike last time when I met Odie, Odie knew who I was right off the bat.  There was no shyness, or acting like he was unsure if he wanted to be on this 'new' person.  In 2019 he didn't know who I was until I started talking to him the way I used to and you could see the light come on.  He looks like he's in terrible shape from all the feather plucking.  My aunt told me this started when TIgger died who was his buddy bird that was also another bird I had way back when.

Odie is full of personality.  We believe he's male although I've never tested him.  Has huge feet!  He reminds me so much of Huey that I accidentally call him Huey all the time.  He loves to work on cardboard, just like Huey.  Odie is a talker.  He talks in my aunt's voice.  He was not a talker when I had him years ago.  He loves to tell my mom's bird, Kiwi, to 'shut up' and 'stop it' all the time when Kiwi gets into his squawk mode.  After a while we were all telling Kiwi to shut up and stop it with Odie leading the chorus.  He will ask 'want to go outside, hmmmm?' in my aunt's voice.   He has rattled off some other sentences in her voice that I just can't make out.  She always talked in a frail little voice so that's what he does.  Odie loves to give kisses and loves a good head scritch, but if I do it too long or try to cuddle him to much, he will tell me to 'stop it'. 🤣  He's been fed a junk diet of bird store seed and peanuts his whole life.  He transitioned well to the sprouts/cook that I feed.  He acts like I feel, an old bird, seems to sleep more during the day.   Loves to watch TV, I guess that's what he did with my aunt in the later years when she retired.   He also spent a lot of time outside in the garden because he asks to go out a lot.  He's not much for my wife, still shy around her and really doesn't want to be touched by her.  I suspect that will change over time.   With me, he seeks me out wherever I am.  He can't fly so he gets on the floor and hikes it.

GreycieMae is being a brat about it all.   The second day I had them all in the living room, she did one of her fake screams and a hot lap around the living room from the kitchen and got Huey and Odie launched.   Odie ended up hanging from my pant leg and Huey was doing circles around the living room.  Greycie did this when we introduced Toby for the first time.    She is such a spoiled diva.

Odie seems to have busted airsacs.   Whenever he whistles/talks and has his wings lifted I can see an air bubble under the skin that blows up and pulls back in.  THat really bothers me.  No idea how long that has been going on.  Going to head to the vet about it and a general checkup although I'm not sure I want to hear any bad news.  We'll see.

Hopefully I can give Odie a happy life from here forward.   I feel really bad the condition he is in but all I can do is give him the best from here on.  He seems to be a happy bird so I'll take that.

Odie with sleepy eyes at 2:30am sitting in the truck about to head for Texas:

Odie cute as a button working on his cardboard.  

God bless you one and all.

Since I have a track record of late, at receiving Bites while completely minding my own business.:evil: I have been asked to be the CEO of a new Start-Up called "The Parrot Bite Me Club". :woohoo:

So as most of you have probably read already, of my expert level mastery of consistently receiving Bites Daily, lets hear your adventures in biting!!

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Side note:  There is no chance that a parrot leash would ever work with Corey and we could simply keep her on our hand or shoulder.  Thanks for any ideas. 

The other day, Widget was asleep on the sofa in the living room and I needed to let Alfie out so I woke Widget up, gave him some fuss and then shooed him out of the room. I let Alfie out as usual and he flew over to his tree on the dinner table. Then he immediately flew over to his standing tree at the other side of the room. He then flew back to the original tree. That was a bit unusual as he usually stops somewhere to stretch and preen first. All of a sudden, Pixel scurries across the room, looking a bit worried. Last time I'd seen her, she was upstairs and I obviously hadn't noticed her wander in to the living room at some point. Alfie was still flying around because he knew it wasn't right that she was there. Thankfully, I was able to get Pixel to stop running around and picked her up to remove her from the room. Phew! Alfie then settled ok and we carried on with our evening.

I think Pixel was too scared of all the flapping to know what to do but I'm just so glad she didn't try and chase Alfie - or spot him before he spotted her.

The stupid thing is, I normally do check around the rest of the room to make sure I got both of them out. That one moment of complacency could have ended very badly... although I'm honestly not sure who would have come off worse with that one... either way, I felt very guilty for a good while after!

Have you ever slipped up/made a mistake and had a near miss as a result?

He was in a bad mood tonight, and maybe you can use this. When your Grey is in a bad mood, they will let you know , and you can avoid flesh loss.

Sukie won’t bow his head  and makes a click noise when you try to scratch them.

You should  avoid being bitten. A lot of people post in the Parrot bit me thread.

You can  avoid being bitten  by recognizing your Grey’s mood. 
 

I know Sukie

That’s all I have. Have a good weekend.

It's only taken us 20+ year for her to be willing to be on her back.  When we first got her [as an adult] she would NOT step up to our hand.   It "only" took about 6 months before she was willing to come out of her cage onto our hand.  Like you guys say:  it's "grey time". 

It's a great event with loads of different parrot/avian companies and organisations setting up stalls in the building. They run three "masterclasses" throughout the day that cover various topics about parrot/avian care and there's also a free flight demonstration outside. I managed to catch two of the three masterclasses and one of the free flight shows. I also stocked up on loads of toys and goodies for Alfie.

Alfie always amazes with me how much he takes things in his stride and doesn't freak out. It was crowded and noisy inside the building with so many people walking past or stopping to talk to us but he didn't seem to mind and apart from being a bit wide eyed at times, he was absolutely fine.

All in all it was a great day out and I will definitely go back again next year if it goes ahead. Although I think I'll try and see if there is a local hotel that will let me stay over with Alfie, as it was a LOT of driving in one day. It was a 246 round trip and I spent about 5.5 hours in the car in total... longer than I was at the actual event! At least if I know I have a hotel room nearby then I can stay later and see all of the masterclasses instead of having to leave early.

The entrance to the show - there were so many people (and parrots!)

Masterclass one - Parrot Awareness Week. This covered all sorts of information about parrot care.

Masterclass two - around nutrition from the creator of 'Your Parrot' food. He seemed extremely knowledgeable and I have some of the food from his company to try with Alfie.

The third masterclass was on Feather Plucking but I had a long drive home and was feeling really tired and headache-y by then so didn't get to see that one.

Military macaws

Hornbilled Toucan - this was his first outing amongst other people and there was a massive crowd! He was absolutely fascinating and so well behaved!

African Grey- called Tomato because she once flew off, got lost and was found miles away in a greenhouse munching on tomato vines. This was her first outing in front of a crowd too - she was such a good flier and really well behaved!

Galah cockatoo

Mini macaw

Long-billed Corella

Showing off Alfie's wheels - plus his haul of goodies in the back!

The haul!

I find it quite fascinating that birds become alerted to an imminent earthquake. 

Mom’s are why we are all here ! 💌❤️

Normally it’s a fight, and a good chance of loosing flesh.

I’ll let you know if this was a fluke or not tomorrow 😂

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Thank you !!!