Category Archives: Pearl

There is no doubt the large featherless beings have some odd traditions, especially right around a festive occasion they call the “New Year.” For example, some of them like to acquire special items to attract more of something they call “luck.” The way you see it, luck must be something you only need if you don’t have any feathers. YourContinueContinue reading “The Good Luck Ladybug”

“When you love somebody,” Sting sings, “….set them free.” As if. When you REALLY love somebody, you let them sit on your knee while you watch TV together (and you don’t even put the “bird towel” on your knee first!) Like so. With love (& lots of feathers), Shannon & Pearl

Featherless beings tend to have unusually short attention spans. For example, your large featherless waitress sometimes goes into the kitchen to fix something for breakfast. When she comes back, she may get so absorbed in consuming what she made she forgets you are even there! So of course this is always a good time toContinueContinue reading “The Breakfast Fling”

Big or small, short or tall, young or old, rich or poor, feathered or featherless, there is so much happiness to be found in this world. And since Monday is the most stressful day of the week for many featherless beings (on account of something called “work”), Pearl figures it is also the perfect dayContinueContinue reading “Pearl’s “Happiness Is….” (win a FREE BOOK!)”

You don’t get to be a certified “power nester” by good looks alone (if that was the case, a certain very manly manbird would have been born surrounded by ladybirds!). Rather, like anything worth doing, nesting takes practice. You get better in stages, first by learning the basics and then by adding your own singular style to setContinueContinue reading “Power Nesting for Advanced Learners”

Since many featherless beings do not realize their avians’ gourmet sensibilities, they can be a tough species to train. For instance, let’s say your large featherless waitress serves you some of Grandma’s tasty mashed potatoes on a small garnish of green leaf. Yawn. So you have to train by example, taking the initiative to showContinueContinue reading “Mashed Potatoes En Bag”

The large featherless being here…. “Love & Feathers,” the blog, first launched in 2012. On that very first day, we could never have guessed how much joy it would bring to our little flock to share our adventures with you, our extended family flock. So today, on a day when we are sipping hot (spiked)ContinueContinue reading “The Happiest & Merriest from Our Flock to Yours!”

Like many aspects of modern pop culture, the song “Silver Bells” was first introduced as part of the soundtrack for a major Hollywood film. Originally named “Tinkle Bells,” songwriter Ray Evans’ first wife gets the credit for persuading him to use “Silver Bells” instead. Whew. But it is no surprise that the silver bell has endured asContinueContinue reading “Wet Bird Couture Presents: The Silver Bell”

“When you love somebody,” Sting sings, “….set them free.” As if. When you REALLY love somebody, not only do you not care if they run and stick their whole face in their breakfast, but you even stop what you’re doing to snap pictures because it is so cute! Like so. With love (& lots ofContinueContinue reading “When You Love Somebody….”

Baby parrot eggs are distractingly cute. So are baby parrots. This means intensive training can be necessary to bring nesting security up to the high level required for keeping the whole flock safe. Just as mission training is often called “black ops,” in this case the training is called “nest ops.” Here, a nest opsContinueContinue reading “Nest Ops”