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Our admin works on Grey time too. HAAHAAA... kidding, I couldn't resist.

I didn't chime in with mine as it is not sound activated which is what the OP is wanting. I don't even know of any field cameras that are sound activated - those are also motion activated. The only thing I can think of is a noise-activated recording device like this. Doesn't do video though.

A couple of incidents happened yesterday evening that really shed some light on the nature of these Grey birds. The first incident was barely worth mentioning but since what happened later occurred I'll add it. - GreycieMae was eating apple chunks with almond butter, one of her favorite treats. She flew from the kitchen to my chair with a chunk and was about to devour it. I looked at her and asked if I could have it. I could tell she thought about it for a moment then walked over to me, pinned her eyes, stretched her neck and put the apple chunk in my lips and released it. She's done this before but it's super sweet whenever she does it, which is not often. - Later my wife and I got into a squabble, with raised voices and high tension to go around. Greycie started caw-caw-caw'ing extremely loudly at one point when I was getting a good tongue lashing (she was sitting on my shoulder at the time). This didn't go on for long but 'mommy' was clearly upset and began brooding. Greycie's usual evening routine is to hang with daddy and ignore mommy UNLESS mommy is banging around in the kitchen. What Grey can resist bangings in the kitchen? Last night was different. After the squabble and mommy started brooding, Greycie flew over to my wife and kept trying to sit on her. My wife being super-pissed at me, and associates these birds with me, was not interested in my damn birds at the time. She had already flipped the Jardines off of her and I was about to 'bird room' them all to keep them away from her. It wasn't long and Greycie let out the sweetest 'tickle-tickle-tickle' followed by her giggle. Then she started going through her kookaburra, drunk chicken and all the silliness that she does that always gets a laugh out of everyone. She was doing all this completely focused on my wife. Occasionally she would peer around my wife's head to see if I was still where she left me. She was clearly trying to normalize things for her mommy. I would really love to know what exactly was going through her mind but I have to think she was trying to fix things. Next thing I know Greycie is being told how compassionate she is and how she has more compassion than a human (clearly another dagger thrown my way but I had my dagger deflecting cloak on at the time). It's highly unusual for Greycie to hang with mommy once I'm home. The fact that a stressful event occurred and Greycie was trying hard to normalize the situation was very telling of her emotional capabilities. She's a super sweety even though she can be a real pill at times. I just love my GreycieMae.

I love that link to the Project Perry Greys. Did he ever get around to recording an HD version of their evening chatter?

We have a 6mo old Jardines that has a foot fetish. He regurges all over my wifes toes, rubs them with his cheeks - just won't leave them alone. We're not worried about it as he does find other things to do. If it was constant, as in all the time, I'd be concerned.

I love their little growl they do. I can just imaging the expletives they are issuing forth. Nothing worse then a groomer I say - right Dorian? Well except maybe a vet. Nothing worse than a vet and a groomer - right Dorian?

Using 14 gauge galvanized-after-weld (GAW) in 1"x2" mesh. I found a little farm store near me that could special order the 6ft x100ft roll I was looking for. I searched for a long time trying to find the wire. I can find it everywhere in 24 and 36 and some places even have 48 but finding it in 72" height was pretty hard. Had I not found the 6ft, I was going with the 3ft rolls and just hog ring them together.

The thing people never realize is, just like us, these birds have an extra gear when the throttle is wide open. It's something you only see rarely. All three of my birds have startled me with their impressive flight abilities when they are scared. GreycieMae went by me in the hallway one day sideways because something spooked her in the birdroom and she got out of there. I was underneath the light so she couldn't go above me. It happened so fast and she was gone, if that had been a door to the outside she would never have been stopped.

Murf's right. We only let them have pellets and dry stuff in the bird room. I got sick and tired of cleaning dried sticky crap off the walls, floors, cages etc. Since our birds are out most of the time we have three of these cages in the living room area that they can go to and get their 'other' stuff. Helps limit the mess to a smaller more manageable area. Plus these cages are so dang easy to clean it's ridiculous. I can clean these three cages in about 5-10 minutes whereas their bigger cages is a half day ordeal.

Here's another one GreycieMae likes. I became infatuated with it and noticed she likes it too. Birds on a Wire I'll lhave to try the Libera - Voca me on Greycie. That high-pitched stuff is right up her alley.

Somewhere I saw a video of a macaw or a too doing the WTF? I've been told by wifey and bird mama NOT to teach the F word to Greycie. I don't think it would be cute anyway but she may hear it by accident. My luck that's one word she will pick up.

That's awesome. Now I have something to show my friends who don't understand why birds are so cool. They can pretty much do to my hand what my dog does to my leg.

Greycie and Toby go nutters for this song. Now before you kill it before it gets going, you have to listen to at least 0:20. There's a reason it's called 'Bird Machine'. Also again at 1:40. Greycie has nearly got these down: When I'm on the trainer Greycie really loves the 80's hairbands music I play. I'm raising her all wrong just like I did my human daughter (who thinks she was born in the 80's).

I moved that one to the other side of our house because it set up shop in front of our hummingbird feeder. She didn't stay put, instead she traversed our whole roof and ended up on the complete other side of our house, again setting up shop over my wife's flower garden.

When I sing to my birds they go berserks. What gives?

Peanut knows nose. Now you need knows the right chair. Gots it?!? Go Peanut!!

We have this one (large). I really like it. Cheap and simple. The best thing I like about it is the tray on the bottom. That thing is so easy to clean. Poop will not stick to it and just a simple bit of water and it wipes clean as new. The only thing I recommend with this one is to find a way to secure the door if you have the bird outside in it. I don't trust the mechanism to keep it closed. We opted for this one over a Kings cage as I didn't want to spend close to $900 for three cages and these have worked very well. We use them as feeding cages so the mess is contained in dining room.

GlennMarsh is just an idiot spammer that needs to be removed from the forums. Disregard any of his crap.

Our Greycie will do a Kookaburra (my wife is Australian) and she also does a drunk chicken. The drunk chicken came about when Greycie was drawling out the tail end of the brock-brock-braaaAAAaaawwwwkkkkk. My wife said she sounds like a chicken that's had too much to drink. So we started asking Greycie to do her drunk chicken. Behind the kookaburra, the drunk chicken is the about the only other animal sound Greycie will do for us when we ask.

I was so taking that video serious for a while, especially with the narrator's voice. Speaking of spiders, I love to tell this one: We have a Garden Spider that lives around our house catching bugs over my wife's flower garden. One day she set up her web at the entrance to our covered porch which is on the way to the entry door we use. I walked right through her web and she ended up on my left shoulder. I could see her sitting there. I asked my wife to get a stick and get her off of me. Now, I'm not one to get squeamish about spiders. I will actually play with tarantulas or those cute little fuzzy spicers with 8 eyes ( I have no idea what they're called). Roaches are what gross me out. But this 4-inch spider sitting on my shoulder about to bolt up my neck was nearly too much. My wife grabbed a stick and was trying to flip it off of me and the spider did exactly what I didn't want - ran up my neck and across my cheek into my hair. I. FLIPPED. OUT. I always get chills thinking of that day.... This is a garden spider similar to what ran across my face with someone's hand for perspective on it's size:

I feel that Sophie must approve of these girlfriends for Sean. For sure he will need a parrot-loving soul mate and who better to interrogate the candidates than Sophie?!?

Oh wow...with a situation like that, there's no reason not to try it and see if she likes it. We took Greycie to Austin with us and stayed in a motel within the first week of bringing her home. She always wants to be where we are.

I'm planning to lay about a foot or two of wire on the ground surrounding the aviary just below the surface to keep any digger out. We're not too worried about the diggers as my dogs will be on patrol in the yard anytime my birds are out. They will kill anything foreign that dares set foot on the property. What I'm worried about is the hawks. Our dogs chase those too but of course can't fly. If anyone has any ideas about what to plant inside the aviary, shoot me some ideas. We're trying to figure out whether to go with playground chips, grass or something else.

By the way, this is the 'Costco carport' which I detailed in the 'Costco Outdoor Aviary' thread. Step 1: complete - Setup the structure in various places and see if we like the placement. We bought two of these intending to set them end to end or side-by-side. They turned out to be a LOT larger than I anticipated sitting in our backyard. Although we live on two acres, the available spaces I have that I am comfortable with keeping my babies is limited, i.e. as close to the house as possible. We originally set it up next to the house inline with the covered back porch. We finally decided a pergola type aviary would be much better suited for that space. So we decided to knock down a corner of our immediate backyard fence and place it in the corner under a tree. We're pretty pleased with the location. Step 2: complete - Bury the concrete footings, square and level I assumed this would take a few hours. It took a whole damn day from 5:30am to around 6pm. I was beat. It's good that GreycieMae was available to sit in her supervisors quarters and assure that things are built to specs.

Yes ( I don't do it myself ). Bird poop, or primarily grass/veggies/fruit eaters poop generally does not bother me. Meat eaters and such, I can't stand it. So it doesn't bother me when my birdies poop in the food disposal and I send it on it's way.