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I am still amazed at the precision big birds fly with. So, I had this great idea to bring all the macaws out into the living room, the greys in the kitchen, 1 cockatoo at a time out in their room and I would put Chacho into the macaws room so he could fly around and not be stuck in his cage while the big boys were out and Pat was home. Not the best thought out plan I have had. Sunny and Honey chased Chulo around from stand to stand, cage top to cage top with frequent flights into and around the kitchen which scared the greys making them fly around too. I had to goose the scarlet macaw when Gabby the grey landed on her stand and Mary Ann went after her with beak open, just a little goose to stop the advance. I hadn't started cooking yet but had just put some pork chops in the pan to start cooking when this started so I wasn't concerned about the stove area. But as we stood in front of the stove doing our bird count, Pat kept getting a tickle on his back. He turned around and mentally didn't see or notice anything, then the tickle happened again. This time when he turned around he saw Cotay, standing in the frying pan, knee deep so to speak, in the pork chops. Note to self, look twice because naked birds can sometimes look like raw meat. lol Dinner was however a bit fluffier than normal. Life without birds sure would be boring.

Left hubby at home with them! We are alternating vacations.

Pellets take time for a lot of birds. Keep trying by leaving them in the cage, change them out to keep them fresh. Most of mine will carry the pellet to their water bowl and make soup. They don't eat a bowl full, this coming from the queen of over feeding. Took years for me to learn that just because it is a big bowl, it doesn't mean it needs to be full and they definitely won't eat everything in it. I still do shelled nuts but I check them to be clean before they get them, by clean I mean no black discoloring. There are several threads on here also about sprouting, chickpeas are one of many so explore adding more of that! I love to sprout!

Took a short trip this weekend and it was the first time away from my flock. Hard to believe how darn much I missed them. I went to the ocean and there were just some many birds flying around making me feel bad that ours have cages. I just kept saying how wonderful it would be to bring my guys here and let them fly for a bit and be birds! I think I took over 100 pictures and 90 of them were of birds, just can't get them out of my mind, lol. It was very late when I got in but my Chacho and Bongo knew it was me and started calling for me. I was expecting to be snubbed by them for leaving but I was so excited they wanted me! Not sure how the others will be when I wake them up, hopefully not to bad! I am a fried lobster so handling them is out of the question today, that won't go over good. I couldn't go in to work today, about to take a milk bath and try and ease this pain. I am slathered in vitamin a&e ointment, that isn't helping one bit. Aloe didn't help either. When we fed the stingrays, they put out a heavy slim, I even tried rubbing that on this burn, lol. I am trying everything! My feet look like clubs and don't even fit in my flip flops! Greywings, we even missed your second 4-6 time frame, they wanted to stop at the Aquarium for lunch (2:00pm) and she told me to call you so we could meet up, I am so glad I decided to wait to call, the girls didn't get done playing until after 6. Pat said we will come down there soon for the day and play! I did get this: It is Henna https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/4Nf7VdzLzfspakAhpYUbj8RVckybOnEOgIz0DH-7TtU=w405-h675-no

That would be nice, just think, people could actually vacation because they would have built in baby sitters!

I got the algae!

Bird Haven is a great rescue facility! I have known De for a few years now and is who I recommend people to! She did a fundraiser once at a place called Painting With A Twist. It was a blast so I do not doubt this one will be anything less than fun!

Never thought of that but that would be awesome, a house for each species!! What do tadpoles eat? I want to make sure they grow up strong and healthy!!

Epic karma kick in the butt... Complain about the bull frogs and they will pay you back! This is just one section of the ex-pool, there are hundreds if not more and a lot of them already have their legs. Won't the neighbors loves us even more now. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ajbcNLtTt9nuw3hcP84775gv52f-C1N6r41kdnzPrPI=w361-h641-no

The weather warning siren on the tv. Emergency Broadcast causes a whole different type of emergency here!

Great leg muscles too. :-o lol!

Yesterday was a day to remember. Marley is stepping up now all the time for me, even when I am not asking her too. We went into the other room though and I was able to give her a big hug, little resistance at first and a hole in my shirt but then she relaxed and melted in. Then hubby hollered for me and our time was over. She needs to live on a perch farm though, boy does she go through perches! Chacho came out of his cage to play, we left all the birds up so he could come out. He went right to the mantle and talked and sang his heart out. I really got no less than 15 of the best pictures of him. He is a natural model! https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/jcdJo8Fp7jiYK3rRfzReJfq2mzo_-A9IaSlHNfMRAuE=w361-h641-no https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/zAOcOFB3a-PcvraozZ08e4oGK-kJe7LKHieVA3UGuPg=w361-h641-no It is so hard to put into words just how much I love these guys.

Wow, Bongo does this when he gets relaxed, he fluffs, shakes himself out and raises a foot, grinds his beak a bit then, ahhh, but the feathers stay fluffed on his head. When the others do that fluff they lower their head along with it and I know they are warning me

So very true!

Lol. They are! Thats why we don't want to move them out of there even though the macaws would fit better in there! Hubby is a drummer and we use have have full bands rent the area to practice in. Lol

Haha, spoke to the investor who has the house, 10% for 20 yrs. Ahh, no thanks, we want to move but are not that desperate yet.

Well there are actually 16. The cockatoos don't play well with others so the garage has been turned into their play room!

Use to be, hahaha! Now it is a extra large bird house.

And so now Bongo started attacking Pat last night. He kept flying on his head and smacking him. I know I didn't help matters because I kept laughing, but it was funny to see me cute little Bongo who never use to move fly with intent to scare Pat. We think it because he has fallen in love with Gabby so he was protecting her and her area. He tried to land on my head while I was at the sink beside Gabby but I kinda gently knocked him off, the second time I made him step up from my head and he ran to my shoulder and gave me a kiss as if to say, "sorry mom, but I had to give it a try". I told Pat that he is running out of birds who like him and that isn't going to work for me so he better start playing nice. Found a owner finance property yesterday in Springtown, putting in an offer Monday. It is a long shot but gave us the energy to start looking again. If this one is out there than there are others. :-)

Vincent, aka Chacho Jr or Cujo Jr, is so mean to Pat, lol. Sad, I shouldn't laugh especially now but I can't help it. Seems Cotay has turned against me yet again, this time though she can fly. I was putting the guys up to give them dinner and she was still in her box, I turned my back holding Gabby and her food bowl when I hear flight. Not much I can do but stand there since Gabby has her own tick of attacking when your hands are full, which mine were. There is now a grey on my back, waist level with full intend to do damage to me. I had to laugh, to scared to do much else as Pat came to get her off of me, if I had reacted I would have gotten it from both Cotay and Gabby. Not sure what the change is in her, we had just started to build the trust and she was letting me pick her up, now I can't even get near her.

Tempting but no. lol She attaches herself to any can, mostly dog food cans now since we learned this habit of hers. Now we have to drink our adult beverages from a glass, those don't bother her. (dogs dinner last night ended up on the floor and not in their bowls because she helped yet again)

I bought the tree from a store that was selling out of business. They are made here locally some where.

So here is an embarrassing moment that goes along with this picture. We had a bunch of tree trunks from a bradford pear we cut down and garbage men wouldn't take. Apparently someone wanted them and had been ringing our doorbell but we, as you can see, had all the birds out and we were singing our butts off with them. Jingle Bells, Rhinestone Cowboy and many other silly songs. We were so loud we never heard them. These people came back later and told us they were laughing so hard they had to come back if for no other reason but to meet us. Not only did we give them the wood, hubby offered to help load it for them!

Bongo didn't like wood either until we got a wooden house, it wasn't his so he enjoyed eating it in front of the others!

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fMQwoyMhQreAnChfEBy2S_l3OzDu81j2c-FcVbfaKg=w1301-h174-no Not the family picture I was hoping for, the 3 cockatoo's have their own space since they don't play well with others, lol. Can you find them all? Marley and Vincent are hard to see and Cotay is in the box on the table.