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He is an amazing talker. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmkrwi4hpmw

Greyt pic.

That was Mocha's alarm in the background.

Hiking vids.

Nice pic specially the 1st one.

She didn't want to stand on the ground. The only way to make her stay on the ground is to offer her treat.

Water chestnut.

Cocoa is taking some time off from her hectic schedule living in the city. She is retreating in to a jungle, doing meditation and Chi Kung (Qi Gong), absorbing the negative ions to prolong her life.

Cocoa in action.

Today is new year eve. Cocoa enjoyed the last day of 2010 at the playground. All pics were taken from 5:30pm to 6:30pm. And Cocoa wishes everyone here "HAPPY NEW YEAR". http://picasaweb.google.com/sdhorje/ActionAtPlayground?authkey=Gv1sRgCKD7tLmvjZnbBw#

My yesterday's trip. http://picasaweb.google.com/sdhorje/LawingFalls?authkey=Gv1sRgCNnI7aKRwMWCOg#

My recent trip to a recreation park. Hope you enjoy my photos. http://picasaweb.google.com/sdhorje/HutanLipurSgKancingKancingFalls?authkey=Gv1sRgCJjrj5mK8Ki1-wE#

Merry Xmas to all my friends and fids. Hope you enjoy your holidays.

Cocoa having fun at the playground again. http://picasaweb.google.com/sdhorje/CocoaHavingFunAtPlaygroundA?authkey=Gv1sRgCOy47afCwKSZqwE#5553097810906403042 http://picasaweb.google.com/sdhorje/CocoaHavingFunAtPlaygroundA?authkey=Gv1sRgCOy47afCwKSZqwE#5553101504348737378

I notice that Cocoa doesn't simply take off regardless of whether the places are familiar or not familiar. I have taken her to unfamiliar spots and all she does is just perching there. If she doesn't like the spots she would fly back to me instead of taking off. Lately, I want Cocoa to spend more time outside the house. That will be the 1st place she will go when she gets out. So far she is good. She likes to hang around in the yard. The only things I am afraid of are unfamiliar noise and the loudspeaker of the ice cream man who comes in a bike. That will spook her. She has never took off unnecessarily during our hiking trips. She did freaked out a few times when I stepped on the dried fallen palm leaves. The noise spooked her and she took off but then she came back to me before the leash was fully extended. That shows she had no intention to leave me. The only times she would leave me was when we walked past houses that were under going renovation. The noise would scare the $hit out of her and she would fly in circles. There's no way I could recall her. I have to be very careful about this. Anyway, I am back from holiday. All my birdies are fine. My sis in law took good care of them.

I tested her yesterday, allowing her to play on the curtain with the door open. She was on harness. I wanted to know what would she do after that. She climbed to the door as expected. Then she was looking around where to go. As expected, she flew to the clothes rack to play with the hangers. I think by allowing her to do that regularly, there would be a higher chance of her staying on the clothes rack if she were to get out again.

After cleaning her poops on the floor, I took the rag out to wash. I closed the metal grille sliding door. I have netting over the 1st pane as we only use the 1st pane. The 2nd and 3rd panes are fixed and are covered by the glass sliding door. As I was washing the rag, Cocoa flew to the curtain then climbed over to the metal grille sliding door. She squeezed her way thru in between the metal grille and the glass sliding doors and found her way out of the house. She did that within a few seconds which was pretty fast. She was sitting on the 2nd pane metal grille door facing me. Actually she wanted to come to me. She always does that when I go out. My wife called out loud. I told her not to startle Cocoa. I calmly walked to Cocoa and asked her to perch on my finger. She stepped up and I slowly walked back into the house. This is the 3rd time she got out. The 1st and 2nd were over a year ago. We are going on vacation tomorrow. If Cocoa decided to bye bye us, I think we have to cancel our vacation. I have the confidence that she won't fly away. She has been playing regularly outside the house and has never made any attempt to fly away while I was washing my car or cleaning the water filter or changing my aquarium's water. Of course she was on harness then. I give her 20ft line of freedom to play. She likes to hang around on the clothes rack playing with the hangers. I think it is important to provide some kind of play gyms for our parrots to play outside the house regularly. If they got out, they would look for their favorite play gyms. It happened once, Cocoa flew out of the house and she landed on the clothes rack. She was on harness with 30ft line. She tried to follow me when I went out.

Thanks for your compliment

A Nikon D80.

At home.

http://picasaweb.google.com/sdhorje/CocoaHavingFunAtPlayground?authkey=Gv1sRgCJeb76qft_3gSA#5551077094507347410

Some pix taken at the same time.