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Neck feathers are an important part of every day. They are so important, as a matter of fact, that the paparazzi are given very limited access to document your private neck feather scratching sessions. While there are many things your large featherless assistant does not excel at, she just happens to be excellent at scratching neckContinueContinue reading “Day 186: Neck Feathers”

Even before spring arrives in earnest, it is never too early to begin foraging for prime nesting sites and comfy nesting material. This is especially true if you are male, have feathers, and are very fetching. Also, because you just never know when you will meet a lady bird, you might want to prepare nests inContinueContinue reading “Day 185: Nesting Material”

When you are extremely cute and loud and you have feathers, from time to time your Mom might take you to spend a whole day with the Tall Tree and the Small Tree (aka your grandparents, aka the biggest marshmallows for feathers on the planet). In the Tall Tree and the Small Tree’s house, there isContinueContinue reading “Day 184: the Tall Towel Tree”

Every being has preferences. For instance, when you have no feathers, you might prefer a computer keyboard that is free from cockatiel poop. (Weird, but there you have it.) And if you have feathers, you might prefer never to encounter a Q-tip. Q-tips are what your mom uses to swab your left wing when you’veContinueContinue reading “Day 183: Death to Q-tips”

I only just recently got a chance to watch “Parrot Confidential,” a PBS expose on the life of captive parrots. But I had already been hearing about the program for many months, all the while awaiting my opportunity to view it with equal parts eagerness and trepidation. I say this because, as a (slavishly) devotedContinueContinue reading “PBS: Parrot Confidential”

Little kids enjoy playing a game called “King of the Mountain.” They think it is fun to scamper up a hill and fight off marauders so they can claim the hill for their very own. What is even more fun, however, is to play a new and improved game called “King of the Cage.” WhileContinueContinue reading “Day 182: King of the Cage”

The large featherless beings have many strange customs and rituals, but one of the strangest is their obsession with bellies that have feathers. The moment your large featherless assistant sees yours, she just has to kiss it. Over and over and over and over and over again. One minute you are just innocently sitting there….ContinueContinue reading “Day 181: Belly Kisses”

Being small and feathery gives you many natural gifts – including leadership abilities. In a group, others instinctively look to you for guidance. Just the way you present and conduct yourself gives you natural authority. And when there is a clear lack of organization and focus, you know just how to herd everyone back inContinueContinue reading “Day 180: Herding”

When you are little and have feathers (and have always been little and have always had feathers) you tend to look like “prey” to, well, nearly everything. In this case, it just makes sense to hire a large featherless bodyguard. Being neither small nor cute, and not having any feathers at all (poor dears), theContinueContinue reading “Day 179: Bodyguard”

When you have feathers, your official motto is: “Anything the large featherless being can do, I can do better.” Let’s take typing, for example. You’ve noticed the large featherless being spends hours and hours sitting in front of the rectangular glowing thing, moving her fingers over the smaller set of tasty white squares. She calls this “typing.”ContinueContinue reading “Day 178: Typing”