There is a reason most top-secret “black ops” agents opt for low-key cover identities. It is easy enough to blend in when your day gig doesn’t raise any eyebrows. No one follows their water meter reader or internet repair person around the block begging for selfies and beak-o-graphs. But there are also perks that comeContinueContinue reading “Day 232: Cockatiel in Corn Muffin Questioning”
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Day 229: Cockatiel Is the Muffin Master
In a wild setting, cockatiels live in enormous flocks numbering hundreds or thousands of feathers. It is glorious….but competitive. Sure, there are lots of ladybirds. But there are also lots of manbirds. Nesting sites abound. But so do their occupants. Victuals are plentiful. But at dinner time the line stretches around the block. Of course,ContinueContinue reading “Day 229: Cockatiel Is the Muffin Master”
Day 226: A Very Cute Cockatiel Chick
In the eyes of the world, you may be a successful CEO with feathers. You have your own blog. You’ve co-authored two books. Everyone wants your beak-o-graph. Clearly, you are a mover and shaker, a flapper and high-flier, someone who has a well-feathered nest and is even now leaving an inspiring legacy for future generationsContinueContinue reading “Day 226: A Very Cute Cockatiel Chick”
Day 223: Cockatiel Ponders Chicken Versus Egg
At a certain point in every being’s life, whether feathered or featherless, it is only natural to start pondering the bigger questions of life. Who am I? Where did I come from? How did I get here? What is my purpose in life? Of course, just having feathers all over your body makes some ofContinueContinue reading “Day 223: Cockatiel Ponders Chicken Versus Egg”
Day 220: The Cockatiel & the Breakfast Bowl
Interspecies flock life comes with all kinds of perks. You can count on always being the best-looking one in group photos. You have plenty of “beta” flock mates to boss around. If another flock member’s breakfast looks better than yours, you can poach it. Of course, the same holds true in reverse, and you can’tContinueContinue reading “Day 220: The Cockatiel & the Breakfast Bowl”
Day 218: Tortoise Makes Friends With Cockatiel
“Cuteness” is a great way to make new friends. But when you are born very cute and have so many beings who want to be friends with you, it can take some time to get around to everyone on the waiting list. You do your best, of course, because that is just the kind ofContinueContinue reading “Day 218: Tortoise Makes Friends With Cockatiel”
Day 217: A Cockatiel and His Wonderful Wicker
Every being has their own favorite hobbies. Your small shelled brother, Bruce, likes swimming in his pool, hunting slimy wriggling things and burrowing in hay. Whatever works. Your less-small shelled sister, Malti, likes uprooting green beings, digging in dirt and eating yucky things she finds on the lawn. No accounting for taste. Your large featherlessContinueContinue reading “Day 217: A Cockatiel and His Wonderful Wicker”
Day 214: Cockatiel Perches in Perfect Form
There is nothing like cohabitating with an interspecies flock to make you really appreciate your own anatomy. Let’s say that one of the beings in your flock has one set of short legs and one set of long legs – but no feathers at all. This basically means she has no balance. No poise. PoorContinueContinue reading “Day 214: Cockatiel Perches in Perfect Form”
Day 211: Cockatiel Has Egg-citing News!
If ever there was the perfect invention, it would have to be the egg. First of all, it is a remarkably compact, efficient getaway vehicle (one worthy of .007 himself!) The egg is also so pleasingly round – not unlike a certain posh and plump (and oh-so-masculine and manly) feathered chest. Eggs bring great surprisesContinueContinue reading “Day 211: Cockatiel Has Egg-citing News!”
Day 208: Cockatiel Tackles Molt-i-tasking
If there is one thing you have to get used to right away when you live with an interspecies flock, it is that no one else in the flock will be good at something called “multi-tasking.” And we do mean no one. Take your large featherless assistant, for example. Let’s say you have given herContinueContinue reading “Day 208: Cockatiel Tackles Molt-i-tasking”
Love & Feathers & Shells 