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Facebook can be a wonderful thing. Especially when you can meet folks like Marguerite Floyd, author of “Cockatiel Lessons: how one little yellow bird changed everything.” Marguerite is a fellow parront – a fellow writer – a fellow supporter and fan of all things parrot. Because (in my opinion) there is far too little literatureContinueContinue reading “Cockatiel Lessons”

I loved to travel B.P. (Before Pearl). A.P. (After Pearl) I still like to travel – but I like coming home even better. Who wouldn’t, when you’re coming home to this? Pearl also enjoys a good reunion. Reunions. And….of course…..

Cirque du Soleil may be popular. But that is just because audiences haven’t seen The Ribbon Master yet.

So recently Leonardo diCaprio reprised Robert Redford in the role of Jay Gatsby in the classic Paramount Pictures remake of the equally classic film “The Great Gatsby.” Which has spawned the usual ridiculously inflated influx of profits for Warner Bros…..and a host of copycats. Male copycats. Male coiffure copycats. Some of these, er, copycats areContinueContinue reading “Wet Bird Couture: The Great Gatsby”

As a vegetarian (going on 26 years now) I don’t often find a tasty club sandwich to enjoy. When I go to the restaurant in Houston (Baba Yega) that has them, I can have my veggie club all to myself. When I order takeout, however, the meal may or may not take a slightly different,ContinueContinue reading “Fun with Club Sandwiches”

This morning we went into the cupboard as usual to fetch a certain feathery someone’s breakfast. We came out with…the new Cupcake Vineyards Spokesbird. I am expecting a call from Cupcake any day offering us a lucrative contract (or at the very least, a free bottle of wine or two! 🙂 )

Currently my family is on vacation in Cape Cod. Pearl, who thinks any travel route that lasts longer than 5 minutes is unacceptably long, is staying at Ray’s birdie hotel right now, where he hangs out all day with professional singing canaries, finches, parrotlets, parakeets and other winged sidekicks. Not having Pearl with me hasContinueContinue reading “Snowball the Dancing Cockatoo”

Some vultures look like hawks. Others look like buzzards. Others look like, well….vultures. I could tell you lots of other interesting facts about vultures, except they are way too gross to print (most deal with dinner, decay, bacteria, and why vultures like the smell of things the rest of us run away from.) So we’llContinueContinue reading “Wet Bird Couture: The Edgy Vulture”

When I first met Pearl, he was crouched in a large open-air pedestal cage, covered in baby bird formula. Apparently he saw his situation as somewhat less unglamorous than his future Mommy did. To this day – at age 12 this year – he still enjoys being spoon-fed. In fact, recently he has developed aContinueContinue reading “A Spoon-Fed Bird is a Well-Fed Bird”

Any single green thing has a fairly good chance of being noticed – and perhaps sampled – by a nearby avian. Chances improve if that green thing is lurking in a pile of assorted other non-green things. If the green thing turns out to be tasty, it may be singled out for further scrutiny. TakeContinueContinue reading “Veggie Chip Maneuvers”