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Jeff, one thing we learned with our Greycie, she can sense fear. She will nip and bite people who are apprehensive about touching her especially my daughter. I learned this when I took her to one of our race venues. She was very nippy with anyone who showed any kind of apprehension about touching her. There was this one lady who races with my daughter that came by and boldly stated "birds love me". She threw her hand right under Greycie's breastbone and boldly told her to 'STEP UP'. Greycie stepped up and let this lady do anything with her. Hell, I nearly stepped up too! She really is just a big bully when she can get away with it. I can do nearly anything with our Greycie and I believe it's because I don't give a damn if she bites me and she knows it. I am a little rough and tumble with her too. I am with all my birds past and present. My Amazon had the most trouble with it as he was a friggni touch-me-not which of course, made me want to touch him non-stop.

That would just give me an excuse to buy a remote control car for them to ride on.

Interesting about the light...we were at the vet yesterday with our other bird and I asked her recommendation about using an avian light on my Grey. She made a short cone shape motion with her hand and said if your bird will sit within this radius of the light...they work, otherwise they're useless. She said bang for the buck, you need to provide them some outside light if you can. More reason I need to get on the ball with my outdoor enclosure. Light through a window was a another 'not good enough'. I guess it filters too much UVA/B Btw...we've been to four different 'avian' vets in this area and this is the first one that I can tell know birds and knows them well. She's a bird owner herself. I pretty much trust she knows what she's talking about - I sure don't.

looks like a CAG with a TAG beak?

I have this cage as well. Works great for our Greycie. She's a standard size Grey I'm assuming at 450 grams. All parts were there and it assembled well enough. I would prefer a ~$1000 aluminum palace but we only use the cage sparingly - sleep cage and a little cage time during the days when she can't stay out in her bird room.

Can you hold off on breakfast until it's time to go in the cage?

It's a spice she came from the breeder with. She sells it for $5.00/ounce. Consists of: alfalfa powder, barley grass powder, wheat grass powder, beet powder, carrot powder, garlic powder, kelp, dandelion greens, spirulena and yucca powder. I've tasted it a few times but it's best property is it smells really good.

We're still not over the high of finding our lil Grey who was on the lam for two days. So happy to have her back. We would have really missed this girl. I just love getting up in the morning knowing this is who I'll be sharing breakfast with: On the menu this morning: Okra, grapes, red raspberries, Adzuki/Garbanzo/Mung bean sprouts, and snap peas all sprinkled with a parrot spice that she loves loves loves. Fork is used to help get her started eating, because if Daddy is eating it, it's got to be good!

You may have a feathered-fashionista on your hands.

Not only that, they smell good too! Nothing smells like an Amazon - at least nothing I've ever come across.

I've learned that making a huge list of names is useless, at least in our case. I've attempted to name three birds myself and kept a nice long list of names. Our GCC, I settled on 'Skittles' and my daughter prompltly re-named him to 'Stewart' from the Mad TV skit. He goes by 'Stewy' most of the time unless he's in trouble and then it's full-on 'Stewart'. I have to say it fits him perfectly. Our Jardine's parrot was 'Sweet Pea' and the wifey re-named her 'Raven'. Again fits her. We also have Pickles our parrotlet. I can't recall what name I had picked out for her. Again, the daughter side-stepped that name and applied her real one.

Mine was weaned when we brought her home but she got me back on the hand feeding - smart birdy! Actually she was 4 months when we brought her home and fully weaned. I asked the breeder about the baby behavior and she said go ahead and give her what she wants she'll eventually outgrow it on her own. She's 8mos now and only relapsed after a stint outside on her own for two days. Back to normal now though.

haahaa...sounds like an abusive relationship that works <snicker><snicker>.

I have two hens running up front (as opposed to the back of our property with the barn) with little chicks in tow. Greycie likes to sit and watch them on the lawn. She now does the chicken bock-bock-bock-bock--braaawwwk. It's really cute, we helped get her going on it. We over-emphasize the 'braaaaawk' part and she under-emphasizes it. These hens were formerly docile when they had no chicks. One of them is now the meanest animal we have on the place. Dogs, hawks and cats give her a wide berth. She's even gone after me several times while feeding them.

One of the best I've ever seen is here. It's probably a lot overkill for what you're wanting to do. See Murfchck's post in this thread. She built something very similar to what you posted a link to.

Dan's solution won't fall out if you're going straight into a ceiling joist. If not use a toggle bolt. If you have access to the ceiling, drill only a hole large enough for the bolt to pass through. Screw the toggle on when you're inside the ceiling. These usually require a hole large enough for the whole toggle to pass through but with ceiling access, you can make a tiny hole and get away with that.

Pretty sure you're correct about it helping that we had her out. One thing we realized yesterday when we went to see the tree again is, it's right on the trail that I take her on bike rides. Not only that, it's nowhere in the direction she flew, which is why I never checked it. I'm pretty convinced that she flew around and saw a spot she recognized and parked herself there in an attempt to reunite with us. Pretty darned amazing these Greys. Tree in the pic is the one she was in and the trail we're on is the trail we pedal frequently. Probably a good 2+ miles from the spot we saw her fly to. Checking out 'Greycies Tree' as we now call it!

Cool videos. Makes me really miss my BFA 'Tigger'. He sounded just like Chili. I'm jealous of that bird room too.

Ha...me too! I noticed that I suddenly had a long green bar over my avatar. Decided to see what it was. I had no idea. I was incorrectly assuming it was just a post-count indicator of some sort. But when it jumped from one little green box to a bunch in one day I figured some idiot was using my account.

A nice camera - we demand baby pics!

Here's a picture we had on one of her wanted posters. This picture was taken the morning before she flew away. When my daughter had made up the posters and showed them to me to see if they are what I wanted - this photo caused some serious heart ache. When I was hanging them around town, I refused to look at them because of the pain they caused. The picture is just so cute. She was posing for a picture for Christine (the lady who let her fly out the door) and we were showing her how we ride around on the Townie bike. I had just given her a big smooch and she shook and fluffed up like she always does. Thankfully, I can now look at the pictures and enjoy them again. We stuffed a few copies of the various posters away in my keepsake box.

I'm not sure how long you had her the first time but I posted a story about my previous Grey who I also lost due to a divorce. She ended up with my aunt after my ex-wife could no longer care for her. I had her when I was 19 and lost her at 24. I went and saw her again at my aunt's house after not seeing her for 19 years. She knew who I was and lapsed into some behaviors that we used to do that my aunt said she had never witnessed her doing in those years she has had her. They do remember.

Greycie admiring her handiwork.

I don't know why but 'Oreo' came to mind when I was looking at that last pic.

How old is Charlie? No words here as we're only coming up on 8 months old.