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Now you know your 'Peck'ing order!

Green cheeks are another one of my favorites. I've had two of them. The last one made off with my daughter and her parrotlet. I just love their little personalities. Happy hatchday to the the little guys.

Well, you do earn 173 Rakuten Super Points on that purchase!

We get some wicked storms here in North Texas. I'll have to keep my eyes on Greycie to see if she behaves differently while the storms are still a few hours out.

Some beautiful photos. Also nice to see they return the birds back into the wild. Love how they are in tune with nature. A 13-year-old eagle huntress in Mongolia

Well, I can't believe you'd take a picture of such a pretty girl with food all over her face and post it for the world to see, or rather, she can't believe you'd do it from the look on her face. Haahaa.

Notice the quotes around the comment. It's a caption, not a question.

"Are you seriously going to post this online?"

And his talons of power?

Quinoa is unusual in that it will sprout while it soaks. Which probably means I'm soaking too long. I usually soak 8hrs and *maybe* 8 hours rinsed, and I do it separately. Besides feeding the babies with it, I eat it in yogurt. It's good stuff.

It's the Greys coming out in us. Otherwise we're all rotten to the core, bad apples I say You missed the last divisive member that was a high up when I got here. Since banned. Shame as he had some real good info to pass along but the way he went about it was pretty abrasive. I'm on a bunch of FB groups and for the most part they are ok too. One of them has a mod-god complex in it's hierarchy but easy enough to ignore. I come here to look at everyone's Greys - can't get enough of these beautiful creatures.

Greycie hopped right in. - 1 farm raised egg from the hens out back - sprouts (mid bird from Sprout people) - sprouted Quinoa - Red palm oil Scrumptious!

Peck will show that vet who's the boss bird. And in the meantime, he'll get a nice beak trim and a nice parrot pedi, maybe even an almond if that vet is worth his red palm oil.

But he still looks good fuzzy!

For the record, I just stole this idea.

You don't know how right you are. When Greycie was let out by my SIL, she flew to her hearts content - straight to the horizon. Finally two days later she was perched in a tree where we normally rode her Townie rides just waiting for me to come by 3 miles away.

We have three crows that live near our property and are constantly on the ground hunting/foraging. About a week ago I had a dream that I was returning from a Townie ride and hopped off to check the mail. One of those crows flew over and knocked my conure off the bars, grabbed it off the ground and flew up into a tree. I ran after it and it was holding the conure just out of reach taunting me with it. The conure was looking at me with his little eye and I could tell he knew he was going to die. At that point in the dream I dashed back to the bike and realized the other crow had gotten my Caique. What a friggin nightmare that was. It was so off-putting that my wife and I decided their may be meaning behind it. I never leave my birds, nor have them unharnessed outdoors so not sure why I'd have a dream like that.

Loves apple. Tosses broccoli to the floor immediately. Setting you up for the patented Grey sucker punch one of these days. Sounds completely healthy and normal to me

How old is Sully? They do eventually gain some level of independence and want to do things their way. Kind of sounds a little like what your describing.

Toby is adorable. He's just a baby still in his face and the way he looks up at you with that little wondering eye look that he does. On the other talon, he will ruthlessly attack Greycie and chase her anywhere he can follow when he gets pissed. She made the mistake of making an enemy of him when he just wanted to be friends. Caiques are notorious for making lifelong friends and enemies. Greycie choose badly. We lost Raven in September and I still tear up when I watch her videos and see some of her photos. I still talk to her as I pass the plant we placed with her when I go in at nights. There's something about these birds that really gets into some of us, moreso than any other 'pet' (I hate calling my birds pets, they are my lil ones). I haven't figured out what it is because they are so unlike us on the 'evolutionary' tree.

Looks like a little feathery squeeze doll. He's a cute one.

I googled whole house fan to see if that's what we have. Several variations came up. We have the one with the monster fan that pulls air from everywhere into one central location and vents it through your roof. The fan happens to lie directly in Greycie's flight path to the laundry area where she directs mommy on how to properly do laundry. I would not for a second be worried that Greycie would get sucked up into that thing. Even so, you could very easily put screen above the collapsible vents to prevent such an occurrence. Our on/off switch is right there under the fan so we could easily turn if off. Ours has two settings Hi/Lo. I seriously doubt the Hi setting could pull Miss Piggy off her intended flight path. That said, I could see a Parrotlet or maybe a conure or our Caique possibly getting pulled up there but again, screening would prevent them going into the turbine. I know Greycie would not fit between the inlet guards. This is the motor/fan we have: http://www.globalindustrial.com/p/hvac/exhaust-fans/fans-whole-house/30-in-comfort-cooler-belt-drive-whole-house-fan-1-2-hp?infoParam.campaignId=T9F&gclid=CMP26Lfq2L0CFQsSMwodHhEAMA My biggest fear concerning the use of this fan is you almost have to open windows to allow it enough circulation to do its job. I don't want windows open enough that Greycie can squeeze through and chew her way through the screen.

Happy Birthday Nilah. Such a pretty bird. The pic makes me miss my Tigger.

Nice video! Peck has the same thoughts I do: all that stuff hanging around has some serious potential! I definitely agree his bottom beak is overgrown. He can't close his beak all the way. Nothing a vet cant fix. I wonder if he doesn't do the typical parrot beak grind? I assume that's what keeps that bottom beak nice and trimmed. Some questions for you: - where did you get that hanging rope net? I need one of those for my bird room - what are the ceiling protectors you are using? - the fluorescent mop thingy looking ball. Where'd you get that? My caique would kill to have that. Well, my caique would kill for any reason because he's 10 ft tall and bullet proof but that's another story.