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Latest set of data shows Tinkerbell Mash remained good for over 24 hours out of refridgerator.

I was wrong thinking that mash sour after 3-4 hours.

 

 

Month of soccer // Cyclone Phet & Riamfada neighbourhood hide & seek // Mash eating

 

http://shanlung.livejournal.com/115514.html

 

 

 

Warmest regards

 

 

 

Shanlung

 

山 龍

 

http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9

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Yossi and friends,

 

Thank you and glad you find it enjoyable and useful

 

 

Lambert,

 

I saw hits and traced that to ehow.com a few days ago. I was wondering who that was.

Thank you very much for helping to spread that. More will appreciate that mash when they read this latest update.

 

 

 

Hand of Clod //3 hour and day old Mash // Outdoor hide&seek recalls

 

http://shanlung.livejournal.com/115814.html

 

 

Warmest regards

 

 

 

Shanlung

 

山 龍

 

http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9

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Our last mash batch was magic. The batch before that I was wondering what the problem was, since most of the fids just nibbled at it but wouldn't eat it consistently. This latest batch has me adding to their wet bowls at lest once a day after the morning meal. Trouble is: I didn't write down exactly what we did! Being cooks, we started with the standard list of ingredients but ended up adding this or that here and there and I have NO idea what we did! lol

 

Ah well.

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:-)

 

Lambert,

 

If you see in this report, every time I cooked up a new batch, Riam did not like it initially.

 

Then a day or 2 later, she love it so much that she refused to eat the earlier batch after that.

 

And at the very beginning with Tinkerbell, I dumped a few batches into the sewer. Cockroaches grew fat and happy down in the sewers in those times

 

 

 

SA 2010 & things //other Batchs of mash? //Katleen//neighbour walks & exuberant flights

 

http://shanlung.livejournal.com/116079.html

 

 

 

 

 

Warmest regards

 

 

 

Shanlung

 

 

http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9

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Shanlung, I'm afraid I have to now blame you for my very untidy house! I only sat down for a second to see what was happening on the forum and then came across this thread. I have been glued to the PC ever since reading all your posts and blog and would like to say thank you for sharing your adventures with your beasties and birdies :)

 

I have now been left wondering, if you are a unique man who has a natural ability to connect to animals at a much deeper level then most, or if you have learn't over the years from trial and error?

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Godiego, Tweedle

 

:)

 

You probably read the postings I made in this thread. Those postings were only the tip of the iceberg.

 

Phone in that pizza and have that six pack handy and take a day off if you are getting into the URLs which are the heart of those postings.

 

Here is one 'condensed' version just of Tinkerbell, the way she came into my life and the way she taught me

http://shanlung.livejournal.com/8284.html

 

I grew up on the books of Gerald Durrell and David Attenborough.

How much is me and how much is what they wrote I do not know.

 

I thought I was close to beasties and birdies in the past.

 

It was Tinkerbell who led me into her world, taking me under her wings and truly opened my eyes and my heart.

 

I always felt amused when others kept asking and wondering how I trained the birdies.

They just could never accept what I kept telling them then and now.

 

That Tinkerbell, Yingshiong and Riamfada now are the trainers.

I am their trainee.

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I thought I add into here the reports of the last few months of my time with Riamfada kind of continued on in the thread here in this forum.

 

Understanding the mentality of your grey and other parrots

 

 

 

I noticed a lot of new folks in the forum. That perhaps the stuff I did with my birdies might help them to much more fun and a better understanding with their birdies and less chomping from them too.

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Shanlung, you should start a new thread in the Other Bird Room so that we can all follow your training of LiBai. I look forward to hearing how you do this as I respect your knowledge to the fullest. I have never seen a Greater Green Leaf before so I can't wait to see your techniques in training him.

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I find it emotionally difficult to leave this thread as Tink is that first love and still my love. Talks of Yingshiong, Riamfada were all done here for that reason.

I hear you that Libai is not a grey and not appropriate here.

 

Sorry to hear of that.

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Hello Shanlung; I read your story about taking Tinkerbell out for a flight but she flew away. I dont see where or how you got her back.

 

 

http://shanlung.livejournal.com/8284.html

 

The first time she came out it was ok. It was ok still for a while. Then she spooked and flew. My mouth dropped as she flew and flew and flew, way way way beyond 3 miles. Thought you folks better be aware of that especially when you all seem to be mesmerised that 3 miles is still the limit,

 

That was a nightmare that I do not wish on my worse enemy.

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Hello Shanlung; I read your story about taking Tinkerbell out for a flight but she flew away. I dont see where or how you got her back.

 

I lost Tinkerbell twice. But for the grace of God, I would have been a shadow of a man if Tinkerbell had remain lost.

Those that have not lost a bird cannot ever imagine the pain in the depth of your soul and heart. I cannot and will not wish that on anyone, be that person Hitler, Osama or my ex mother in law.

 

If you have continue reading in the livejournal you quoted, you would have come across the entire episode written in real time to how that happened and how I got her back, together with the reason why I lost her as I realised later.

 

I extract that part and higlight in bold where you might have missed.

 

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

The first time she came out it was ok. It was ok still for a while. Then she spooked and flew. My mouth dropped as she flew and flew and flew, way way way beyond 3 miles. Thought you folks better be aware of that especially when you all seem to be mesmerised that 3 miles is still the limit,

 

That was a nightmare that I do not wish on my worse enemy.

 

I wrote of that experience so that if anyone want to try to free fly, they can get a taste of how that could be like.

 

When I wrote those letters to the parrot mailing list on recovering Tinkerbell after two days and nights . I could not eat or sleep and did not know if I was alive or I was dead. If I had not recovered her, those letters would never be written.

 

Since those letters were very long, I had to break that into 3 parts. My friends around the world had a shock of their lives as they all grew very attached to Tinkerbell. They thought that she was still lost at that time when I send of that first letter. They did not see that it was 1 of 3.

 

You can read that experience and get a first hand taste of what it is like to be in the Overnighter's club below. You can also read my conclusion there and then. (Part 1 - The Early Period)

 

 

Tinkerbell free flight report 1 of 3

http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9/free2.html

 

Tinkerbell free flight report 2 of 3

http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9/free3.html

 

 

Tinkerbell free flight report 3 of 3

http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9/free4.html

 

 

Tinkerbell free flight - In Retrospect

http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9/free5.html

 

Ultimately, it was my deliberate targetting of kindergartens and junior schools with fliers and posters adding to my pool of eyes and ears with younger people more likely to see and talk among themselves that lead to final recovery. It was a kid that gave me the break I needed. Bear that in mind if you need to recover your parrot. Not that what I said help. I have seen so many recovery attempts here that did not seem to consider kids can be your most important assets as they are more honest and open.

 

Our vision and our hearing is nothing like that of parrots with their much superior senses. What you deemed to be 'safe' may be very threatening to them.

 

You cannot make assumptions on their behalf as to their surroundings. A few months after that incident, I came across an article in the local press that thousands of ducks in the farms around the area were dying. There was a military airbase in that area. To prevent accidents from birds striking the planes, the airbase used an ultrasonic device to scare away birds. That frightened the ducks leading to their death. It could just be that at that time when I took Tinkerbell for her truly free flight, that airbase might have activated the alarm scaring Tinkerbell and spooking her off.

 

(Some time later, I found this letter I wrote "Playing music to ducks" in a parrot list archive and I posted that letter here)

http://www.livejournal.com/users/shanlung/19127.html

 

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I hope you will take the time to read that and learn from the lesson in which I paid the price. The best safe guard to keeping your birdie safely is to know as much as you can, especially from lessons with price paid by other people.

 

After you read above and think that was so painful and agonising, the next loss was even more agonising, beyond wildest imagination of anyone. Beyond all hope, I continued to search and lay the groundworks for her return. Never imagining I would ever see her again. I thought I was doing that more in atonement and in memory of Tinkerbell soul.

 

That episode was also in the Livejournal, but in comments near the end.

I extract that here.Read what happened in Bantienyen

in 2007/2008

 

 

Tinkerbell at BanTienYen

 

The Agony

http://shanlung.livejournal.com/71760.html

 

Tinkerbell - Rescue at Bantienyen

http://shanlung.livejournal.com/73198.html

 

Tinkerbell - Bantienyen In Retrospect

http://shanlung.livejournal.com/73232.html

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Shanlung, whatever thread your new fid is in we will all be eagerly awaiting your updates. I hope you don't feel you are being pushed away from one thread to another. It's just how this forum works. Believe me, anything you have to offer will be eagerly read by any bird lover here. I always look for your posts, and am happy to read them in any thread--grey or otherwise. You offer so much and I can't wait to hear more. I love to read posts from the the Amazon room and the Other Bird room. "Other Birds" is certainly not a term describing anything "less than". These creatures are amazing and we learn so much from you.

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