Re: Pet girds
Louis Boyd
> From the looks of the action here no one has pet birds worth talking
> about anymore. Sad...
My birds are just fine.
The problem is that you can't talk to birds on the Internet, only to
bird owners. How often do you want to read:
My bird bites.
My bird few away.
My bird is terrified of the cat.
My bird is sick.
My bird screams.
My bird won't talk.
My bird is for sale
My bird is outside in in a cage.
My bird is cold and stiff.
legal process
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No avocados, chocolate or radiator fluid.
Wingnut
"Louis Boyd" <bo...@apt0.sao.arizona.edu> wrote in message
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I may be misremembering, but it seems to me there was always a lot of cute
stories about our birds. I miss that. Of course there was also a lot of
carping and flame wars. Nobody knew anything about birds except Ol' Molly.
Sheesh, I almost miss *that*!
Louis Boyd
>I may be misremembering, but it seems to me there was always a lot of
>cute stories about our birds. I miss that.
I don't have any "cute" stories, but for the old timers here I'll you up
to date. About a year ago I moved to my "bird house" It's the
dormitory and residence for my observatory and located at 5700'
elevation in the Patagonia mountains of southern Arizona. I designed
it with the birds in mind to be low maintenance. It's a 30 x 60
building on a concrete slab, with an all steel interior and exterior
with glass windows all around. The birds (and us) have an incredible
view of the Sonora high country and about 50 miles into Mexico. The
birds are not clipped and have free reign over a 15'w x 14h' x 60' long
room (a little over 1/2 the building which has perches, food dishes, and
a small pool they can splash in. It can also be used as a meeting hall
for 20+ people There are cages for each bird but the birds are only
used for events when many people are present.
Two of my birds died since I brought them into that environment. The
white front amazon got into a fight with the blue crown conure. The
conure got a broken wing. I took him to an avian vet in Tucson who
operated on the wing. They conure was wrapped up bandages for about a
month to allow the break to heal. I kept him in a separate room so he
wouldn't be stressed by the the other birds until he could fly. His
wings seemed ok and he would flap them but not hard enough for flight a
week after the bandages were removed. He'd spent the night sitting on a
perch next to my bed. I'd just woken up and he was on the perch but
looked a bit odd. I reached over for him to step onto my finger but he
fell to the floor dead and rigid. He'd died during the night. Perhaps
a blood clot. He had been closest to me of the birds.
The other bird to die was my African gray. She was also my "flockmate".
I wasn't home. My (ex) wife who's mostly an invalid now had invited
some ladies from her church. One had brought a little Terrier (dog). My
wive didn't insist that the dog be secured in her bedroom. To make a
short story shorter the dog attacked and killed the AG in the sight of
he women but at the other end of the big room quicker than they could do
anything about it. Beside my wife letting a dog in the house I also
attribute her death to the previous owner who had kept her clipped from
the time she was a baby. Though fully feathered was our only bird which
had not learned to fly. I'm very much against disabling pets to take
away their defenses.
We still have a pair of B&G macaws who are happily mated. They were
hand raised and fairly gentle but would rather be with each other then
with humans.
There is a "rescue" umbrella cockatoo who is afraid of all human men.
He gets along fairly well with my wife and occasionally trades
grooming with the macaws. For a cockatoo he's very quiet. He only
screams if the lights are left on in the big room after about 8pm. He
quickly gets his way on that issue as there's nothing wrong with his voice.
There is a Scarlet Macaw who has accepted me as a flockmate and never
bites, but she's big and no piece of wood is safe near her. She sleeps
on a perch next to my bed. She squabbles with female B&G for the
attentions of he Male B&G but with limited success. The male B&G is
interested but the female B&G puts him in his place if he gets too
amorous with the scarlet. Their interactions are never ending
entertainment.
That leaves the white front amazon who is closest to me now though he's
not as cuddly as the BCC was. He sleeps on my pillow next to the top of
my head each night with a couple inches separation as he would do with a
flockmate. He's the smallest of the remaining birds, the most
aggressive to other birds, the best flyer of the bunch, and the most
vocal with frequent whistling and chattering, but not loudest.
None of the birds are good talkers. I've never encouraged it.
It was not my choice to have birds in the first place. All of the birds
were acquired by my wife over the past 30 years. I'm 65 now. If I had
it to do over I knowing what I do now I probably wouldn't have birds (or
a wife).
Wheeler
birds....
Bob W
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Wingnut
"Wheeler" <rive...@pacifier.com> wrote in message
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> I don't know about you all but I ain't got any girds but I do have a lot
> of birds....
>
> Bob W
Bob, of course you know that a gird is nothing more than a girl bird, also
known as a birl.
Cherane
loss of a loved feather head.
Speak positively and masterfully of what you know is right, do this
for yourself by nurturing a good root system of values and morals.
Trust and living become unafraid of you, as you will become unafriad.
Your actions will grace your achievements and celebrate your life.
Happy New Year
Cherane Pefley
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