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Sukei is such a lucky bird to have such a fierce and loving champion in you, Kevin. That was quite a convoluted adventure getting him here, but you refused to give up. All's well that ends well, and well worth Sukei's extending his birthday celebration for weeks. hahaha

Oh my gosh could Dorian be any cuter??! So sweet to watch his tentative steps and then braver and braver!

Dorian is a champ!! Gosh, nine years have flown by! (pun intended hee). HRH sleeps in her home cage that is on the other side of an adjoining wall to our bedroom. A few years ago, she decided that she loved to be covered at night. I called the cover, her "night night." Well, she loves it and depending on whether it is daylight savings time or not, she likes to go "night night" at about 5 PM but will pipe up with comments from the peanut gallery as we are having our dinner and going about our own evening routines, but settles completely down into a great snooze by 6PM. In the winter, she starts stirring at 7 a.m. and if we do not hustle to uncover her, after she has said, "Good morning out there" in a sweet little voice, she will then switch to a sharp whistle and if that does not work, then it is her pterodactyl shriek! However, I am usually up most mornings by 5:30 or 6:00 so I have to sneak past her and go through the big open area and into the kitchen to make coffee, then sneak back. If she gets any hint I am up -- there's no avoiding letting her out for the day. She will fly to come look for us, or get this: We have an open balcony that overlooks the downstairs where there is a sunroom that we use for our exercise equipment. She will walk to the edge of the balcony and poke her head through the balusters to peer down to see what might be going on down there. If one of us is down there, she will just throw herself off the balcony and then flutter down. The first time she did it, she talked herself through it. 1st she gave her danger sound which is like tchoo tchoo! Then she said, "OK. OKaaaay. OK" and tossed herself over. She reminded me of someone about to skydive for the first time. Other times she will walk to come find us. Anytime she is on the floor she will give her danger sound then a sharp whistle. She can really walk fast, too when she wants to. There is something so heartwarming when our greybies come to look for us. Melts my heart.

What fantastic news, and everything points to that this place was meant to be yours yours yours! I so loved looking at the photos, and reading the descriptions. Congrats!! Natch, we all will want more piccies. Looks like you already have done a lot of mowing and cleaning up. Lovely !

Thanks so much. friends! I've missed you and your flocks immensely! xoxox

She can't mix with the others. We had an incident a few weeks ago where my Tinkerbell (conure) got out and came flying in to fight with Nikki and get her off of me. Nikki bit Tinkerbells bottom beak and I thought I was going to lose Tinkerbell. It took her a week before she could apply any pressure with her beak. I was syringe feeding her to keep her weight up. I think we're out of the woods as she's eating and preening now on her own. The whole reason we took Nikki in was because she wasn't allowed out around the macaws and then this happens. We're getting the patio glassed in soon and I should have their outdoor aviaries built by spring time.

I completely forgot that you have a Hawkhead! Sounds like her personality is spot on for hawk heads. Such stinkers! I bet your wife is getting in daily ducking exercises! How does she do with your flock?