Crossposted to parrot_lovers

I finally have a somewhat decent holiday pic of my Sasha! I wrestled with the slowness of the camera in trying to capture her and trying to center my camera phone (can't find my other camera >_< ) when I can't see what I am taking! But yay! At least some came out well!



Sasha next to the Christmas tree. She would not go into it, but she was okay about being near it. And for some reason she loves showing off her injured wing to everyone and every pic we try to take. ^_^;



A nice profile of her showing off her colors ^_^



I would love to everyone's holiday bird pics past and/or present!

Does anyone else have a problem with their birds getting into their tea cup? I was reading and watching my boyfriend play video games just a few minutes ago. I looked down and there was Serino stealthily drinking out of my tea cup. Aside from the fact it had sugar in it, I removed her because I didn't know if birds are allowed to have tea?! Can I get a pole on this one? I'm OK with sharing my (non-sugared) tea if they're allowed to have it but I figured with all the different plants there are probably at least some they can't have?

On a side note I got my beebs back yesterday afternoon and they got their birdy booty! Dusty immediately attacked his and proceeded to tear at it until he was disturbed by the children running around. Dusty and Serino are still trying to decide if theirs is going to eat them but I'm fairly certain by the way they've been eyeing it that they'll be chomping away it it by the end of the day. So one immediate approval and two un-sure-as-of-yet ratings. But much better ratings than a lot of the toys I've bought!

I was just on the windy city parrot website looking around for a scale to buy and I can't find one anywhere. I swear I've seen one on there before. Does anyone have any idea where to look and/or another place that I can pick up a (relatively) inexpensive bird scale? (Yes, I know relatively in parrot language usually means under $200. *sigh*) Anyone have any preferences on brand or something they're absolutely in love with?

Oh, and HAPPY SOLSTICE EVERYONE!

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Hello

On Saturday 19th in Brisbane Northern suburb of Red Hill, just before a huge rainstorm my second bird Riki got lost. She is white, hand reared and has a gree leg band. I hope that she has been found by someone, if that someone reads this.....
It's a long shot but I am trying everything I can think of.

Does anyone have any advice on how to clean a rope perches without the use of a dishwasher? Because quite frankly I don't have one and nothing I do manually seems to get them clean enough. I think I get all the yuck off the perches only for them to dry out and still have little white flakes in places. >:(

Also, what are the signs that you should replace them? Is there a standard of time that I should use them before discarding? I have one that I am just going to do away with because it is down to the under stuff because I've clipped all the loose soft colored rope away when it comes loose. But I have another that is in better shape but not great. I'm thinking of doing away with it too and getting more after the 1st of the year.

On a side note, I can't wait until tomorrow!!!!! I just got my first birdy booty order at the beginning of Dec. and tomorrow is Yule so when the beebs come home from their week long stay at their grand-peoples house (had to treat the house for fleas) they get to have their birdy booty! I can't wait to see if they like it.

~*~ River

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I haven't updated about Pidgie in a while, she has been doing great. She plays with her toys, socializes with everyone that comes to the house, holds and eats things with her feet, and hangs upside down and sings. She happily eats her pellets now but I decided to still keep about 25% of seeds in her diet.

I finally got off my butt and made her some new toys and switched out her old ones.


My Wideload Pidgie girl.


I have also been teaching her to fly back to a certain area to eliminate when she is out and about and it has been going well. She's not perfect but we are getting there. :)

I am wondering if anyone else has a super snuggly cockatiel? Our Beaker literally DEMANDS snuggles at least a handful of times during a given day. He crawls up under my chin and will nip at me until I snuggle him. He then requires a little head rub and TONS Of kisses, while making fluttery chirping sounds.

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Well there's good news and bad news

1.) I have overcome the economy and found a pretty decent job.

2.) however, it is in Japan.


Which left me thinking about Bochi. I've thought about bringing her, but the drive across the country gave her a good amount of substantial stress. I'm also not even sure when I'd go back to school what part of the country it'd be in. I thought I remembered some of you guys were in Washington state as well, and if so, one of you could use an extra poofball. I've given it a lot of thought, and am sad to my lack of stability, but all I want is the best for Bochi.

If you're not in WA , then any advice on this particular situation would be welcome :) just no bashing, please. I've already gone through a good bit of guilt at my lack of both financial stablity after college and chasing after jobs resulting in locational instability.

I just wanted to thank everyone for their advice on my frantic post last week about Serino laying an egg. It was her first one so I really had no idea what to do!

Right now she is enjoying her hot beak-appetite breakfast and back to her happy self. She shows no interest in the (now plastic) egg that is on the ground of her cage and doesn't seem to be in he mood to lay anymore.

Does anyone have any advice on when would be a good time to remove it? She'd already accidentally squished her orriginal egg before I replaced it but I don't want to remove the plastic one too soon and put her back into egg-laying mode. Any suggestions?

Also I ended up calling the avian vet someone recommended (was that Zandperl or Itdead? I can't seem to find the post) up here in Bothell. The one that used to work at Mikabu? Yeah, she is no longer practicing there. Poor woman. I actually ended up tracking her down in the phone book to see where she was re-locating too. She laughed and took it well and says she misses everyone down in California BTW. On the other hand, YAY!!! Dr. Furgason is moving closer to my area as long as she can score a job in Kent! That will make me happy. Now I just have to watch for her update on AAV.org.