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news to me! good news though....

He has very expressive eyes - that one.

Keep after those sumbeeches. We've had promises from multiple pool companies about dumping dirt. Oh, they are "always looking for places to dump dirt" but you never hear from them again. I think they get a lot of requests for dirt (look at the craigslist ads looking for free dirt) and know how to tell you what you want to hear and then disappear. I'd be interested to know if they follow through.

Springtime must have been the time for baby Greys! Lots of birthdays lately. Happy birthday Bailey!!! I thought I had one of the youngest resident Greys on the site.

Never heard of the 5-spice powder. We use cinnamon in thier oatmeal treat and you can tell when I forget and leave it out. I *almost* get blank stares. They do like their cinnamon.

I will see if GreycieMae can put in a good word for you. I still need to get my certificate framed. I graduated from high skool, kollege and U.S. Marine Corps boot camp and nothing compares to being Felix certified trained.

One of our neighbors dug a pond and they now have the neatest sounding bullfrogs in the evenings. I love listening to those guys.

I've been trying to figure out a way to protect the blades on our fan as Greycie LOVES to ride it. As Talon said - she looks like a little kid riding the merry-go-round. She will only get on it when it's off and she uses her parrot-ese to get me over there and set it in motion. The problem is she loves to take a chunk out it while she's riding. I've been trying to come up with some kind of a blade sock to put on all the blades and just let her go wild on it. I also want to find some kind of rotating device. All I can think of is a disco ball motor. Greycie loves for her hanging perches to go 'round and 'round. It's the cutest thing when she sits on one I'm powering around.

Woohoo Alfie! I hope you're being spoiled rotten.

Seriously disturbing video. Of course people probably wouldn't agree with my riding my birds on my Townie bike either. But we're noodling along at 5-10mph, short leashed harnessed and I can flat foot at anytime (Townies are designed that way). Our biggest danger is the dogs we come across. I never trust their owners have a firm grip so we steer wide and clear unless it's a yap dog that I can kick through the uprights if needed.

Have to watch this video every time it pops up. So cute. Wish my Greycie would learn to do that.

Nice picture of Scooty there. Welcome to the forums, feel free to post more pics of Scooty the Cutey!

We have a Caique and a Jardines (another African breed). GreycieMae can't stand the Caique and only gets slightly jealous of the Jardines however she does know how to frighten him and make him fly into windows/mirrors. My take is, they do not like sharing their hoomans with other birds. My other birds show none of the jealousy issues that she does.

he must be the coolest parrot on the block with those skillz.

Once again, I side with the bird here. Example: If I came up on a bag of peanut M&Ms that were ripped open, you think I would just walk by? No! I would stop, sample, assess the damage and try to rectify the situation (by eating the rest of them). That is simply what has happened in this video. I still see a cat responsible for this crime, or maybe a dog? I don't know how all this ends up at the talons of such a sweet looking bird. Seriously - I hear a yappy dog in the background. And Talon is sounding the alarm. She's doing all the right stuff and still gets the blame.

Bookmarked! I need to start doing this while I'm watching TV. I'm sure I'll have more help than I need.

What a PRETTY girl!!! Happy birthday Nilah!

Cat did it. It's always the cat that does it.

Trust me - they do not play and share nicely like in the photo. It was the first they had seen of the new toy and Dad broke the camera out which always gets their attention. We used to have an issue with GreycieMae on the mantel. She destroyed multiple candles and were my wife's collection. I still hear about it. Those were the days before the aviary and dedicated bird room. Once the shenanigans start which is generally 30m to 1hr after wakeup they go in the bird room or the aviary. We got tired of the place getting ripped apart. We still have a problem with Baby Rio crapping on the back of the big screen TV. He loves to warm his tush on top of the tv with everyone watching him (we're really watching the TV). However that's about to get rectified as the TV is going above the mantel and I WILL have a parrot proof contraption of some sort that will ward off stray pooping hineys.

Oh boy - my first thought was "they'll let me bring my parrots!!".

Not a big fan of trick training. However I am trying to get Greycie to blow kisses since she kind of picked it up on her own. I find the picking a correct color, and other such tricks mind-numbingly boring myself so I don't expect my Grey to like it either. I do however like to 'train' other things like riding my bike with me. Or like another member here does: harnessed recall training. Seems fun and useful.

Similar. Greycie came here at 4mos (she's 3.5 yrs now). We consider her 'healthy' with no neurotic behaviors. Her only 'issue', which is really my issue, is she won't talk. Very limited vocab but I really think that's due to she has me well trained to respond without using our language. She also hates our Caique but it's a power struggle thing I believe. No extended cage times (feeding/sleeping/timeouts) - birdy room - fully flighted - outdoor aviary - two companions (even though she hates one of them she still calls for him). Our schedule looks something like: - 7:00am wake them up - feeding cages in the living room while we drink coffee and watch news etc - then sit on Dad's shoulder and ride around while I do stuff before going to work. - 8:00 they get antsy for their bird room (they like it in there). If good weather they go out in the aviary. We all move outside and do stuff. - during the day wife takes care of them, little interaction. They have each other and their toys to entertain themselves and mostly get along well. - 6:00pm - Dad's home, Greycie goes wild with calls (makes me feel good). Tue/Thurs I get on my bike trainer, and Greycie rides my shoulder while I do an 1.5 hr workout with LOUD music (she loves this part of the day) - Ride around on Dad's shoulder and do what he does, eat what he eats, get into what he gets into. She's my little shadow. - 9:00pm birdy bed time.

Mine roam free in their bird room when the weather is not good enough for outdoor aviary. I do have to lock up mister thug pants Toby (Caique) when he gets in a mood to chase everybirdy around and show them who's boss bird. I change their configuration around a lot so they don't get bored with the same toys/ropes/orbits/swings/ etc. The cages are their sleeping cages but they will put themselves in a cage (not necessarily their own) during nappy time. Here's a shot of our bird room with garage floor paint to make it easy to clean (no birds - they're in the aviary):

You found the right place for Grey addicts. Tiels are sweet birds.