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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”

The cravat is to neckties what Cro Magnon man is to, well, us. And, may I just say, when it comes to neckties, the modern us sure got off easy. But complexity is no match for enthusiasm, and through the centuries, far from relinquishing its hold on fashionable necks, the cravat’s influence has only, um,ContinueContinue reading “Wet Bird Couture: The Cravat”

Bowls make everything taste better. Not only do they have handy rims (perfect for perching to get at the choice bits near the bottom) but they also give you a good neck stretch while dining. Even better, since the delicacies are all jumbled together in a bowl, if you’ve selected a few items while theContinueContinue reading “Big Bird Bowl”

When any two beings decide to share something, there is always a bit of negotiation involved. Let’s say, for instance, that being A and being B decide to share a muffin. First, portions must be selected. Typically, if it were two people sharing the muffin, they would probably negotiate to split it in half andContinueContinue reading “Snack Sharing 101”

They are. We have proof here at Casa Feathers n’ Beak. Based on the evidence, I’m going with option B.

The resident large featherless being (aka me) isn’t a skilled cook. So when fellow parronts informed me that the resident feathery being (aka Pearl) needed a more varied diet – and recommended cooking something called “parrot chop” to fix this – I had the usual assortment of kitchen-related reservations. But anything for the one withContinueContinue reading “Forays into Parrot Chop”

Wheatgrass is packed full of nutrients – which is not the sort of snack the feathery member of our household normally seeks out. However, recently my folks bought new state-of-the-art self-sustaining tanks for our two betta fishes, Boyd and Gill. Part of the overall ecosystem of the tanks is contained in the top five compartmentsContinueContinue reading “Wheatgrass for One”