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I've always let my birds take the lead. Sera wanted to socialise immediately. Ozzy took a week to warm up to Sera and a month or so to warm up to me.
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lithium flour posted:
I Love Ed and like Log and Robo said, I wouldn't worry about training him per se right now. Let him settle in, adjust to his surroundings; maybe you go about a largely normal day in his proximity and just talk to him while you're doing it. Look over at him while you tell him about what you're up to, offer open and friendly body language, just let him know he's a welcome part of the household being offered personal space as he adjusts. Wait a few days before worrying about formal training; he's not going to be comfortable learning many things if he's not comfortable around you yet.
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Jul 14, 2021 00:12
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I took Serra in for a nail trim today. I got to meet - - A splay leg Sun Conure hatched and raised by the owner. It lives perched on the edge of a bin near the counter, chirruping and whistling at everyone. It's a very, very happy parrot. - A seven week old caique who is still hand feeding that hasn't fledged. It apparently had a lot of trouble when it hatched and almost died. It's experiencing super delayed development, but the owner is caring for the little alien bird himself. Watching it feed was like watching a Jim Henson muppet gobble. I love that shop.   
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I noticed some of my bread was getting hard and stale so rather than throwing it in the trash I decided to give the last couple slices to the birbs and a skinny pidgeon stole the bread from the little brown birbs! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOHOsIkfRkk
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Jul 14, 2021 22:33
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Suddenly today Nikko decided that the ONLY thing he wants in life is be standing on my keyboard at all times, and it has made things very complicated.
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Jul 15, 2021 00:57
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 Amadeus does that sometimes. It usually means PAY ATTENTION TO MEEE
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Jul 15, 2021 17:13
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my friend wit da budgies (strato, cirrus & sol) is feeling a bit down that they all bonded to each other instead of to her rip
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hbag posted:my friend wit da budgies (strato, cirrus & sol) is feeling a bit down that they all bonded to each other instead of to her this is probably better for the mental health of the birds. with time, though, they'll probably warm up to her.
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Jul 15, 2021 17:29
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Yeah when you have three birds that all like to hang out and gossip together, it can be hard for a human to be accepted quite as closely as they might have otherwise. She can take solace in knowing that if there are ever challenging days ahead, where it feels too much to do much of anything, that her birds will always be very happy together.
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Jul 15, 2021 19:23
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Plant MONSTER. posted:Yeah when you have three birds that all like to hang out and gossip together, it can be hard for a human to be accepted quite as closely as they might have otherwise. She can take solace in knowing that if there are ever challenging days ahead, where it feels too much to do much of anything, that her birds will always be very happy together. Being a birb's Main Person is a privilege and a joy, but its also a huge responsibility if your bird expects that you will be with them100% of the time during the day, like their flock-mates would be. It's kind of perfect if you can be very good friends with your birds but they also have another bird friend to be their 100% contact friend. I love Pookie so very much, but I can't be with her absolutely all of the time, and she doesn't really want to be with anyone else. She is very much a 1 person birb  Like, she's known my family closely for all of her life (21 years) and I am still the only one that can cuddle her.
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Pesto thinks that preening and scratching himself is part of what he needs to do to get millet from me in the morning. A few minutes after wake-up, Pesto will usually go to the corner of this shelf and begin bobbing and fluffing up while making small tweets. If I start moving towards him, he'll then start scratching his head with gusto until I'm close enough to kiss, that's when he knows millet is here. https://i.imgur.com/uNYLdfz.mp4 he's so cute lol Plant MONSTER. fucked around with this message at 12:52 on Jul 16, 2021 |
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Jul 16, 2021 12:45
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Cargo cult birb
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Pesto  Here is a very cool study about avian brains and how they have such processing power in such tiny packages. Interestingly it seems Passerine birds as a whole are notably smart; Crows and other corvids, being the largest Passerines, are so breakaway intelligent because their songbird brains have scaled up so high. Like humans among the primates. https://www.pnas.org/content/113/26/7255
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Great article, thanks! I haven't been able to bath Ed yet as he's not comfortable being moved around the house. Fortunately he took it on himself to bath in his bowl  
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Jul 16, 2021 16:32
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Oh my god, I LOVE him. Look at those huge orange eyes!!!! Charlie's are a sort of parchment yellow. Ed color coordinated with his vest
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Serra normally likes to play Tug O' War with her little piece of green paracord. If she has shredded paper, it turns into a Game of Death. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqN9XyJbwwY Despite her VERY ANGER noises, she is just squeaking and beaking.
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What's your water bowl like relative to the bird? It looks like he really got in there, maybe rolled around? Sinbad bathes in his dish all the time but I think it's not wide enough for him to get a really good clean. Thinking about a new singular dish because dedicated, separate-from-drinking water dishes have just gone ignored.
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lithium flour posted:Great article, thanks! I love a good wet birb.
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SuperKlaus posted:What's your water bowl like relative to the bird? It looks like he really got in there, maybe rolled around? It's actually not that big, he had to work very hard to get himself wet at all! It's really not ideal for a bath. I will try introducing a flat dish on the bottom of the cage, but he has become very unhappy in the last few days about me adding, removing or touching anything inside.
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lithium flour posted:It's actually not that big, he had to work very hard to get himself wet at all! It's really not ideal for a bath. I will try introducing a flat dish on the bottom of the cage, but he has become very unhappy in the last few days about me adding, removing or touching anything inside. that’s birb all right
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The Bird Hut has finally received all their juvenile, still hand feeding quaker Borbs.  Serra has also gone back to a very reasonable 115 grams in less than a month. I think it's one part molting, one part not-being-super-horny. She still inhales everything. There was a Cheerio on the plate about three minutes earlier. 
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Captain Log posted:The Bird Hut has finally received all their juvenile, still hand feeding quaker Borbs. aw serra i want all those quakers. just come live with me my pretties
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Jul 20, 2021 12:02
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Three minutes does sound like slowing down.
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I had a rough day at work but Sera is velcro with me right now.  Or at least he was until he was offended about having his picture taken.  Cute and blurry or alarmed and in focus. No other choices.
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Jul 21, 2021 01:15
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He looks like he's got a blue crest in that second photo.
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mayo needs cuteness reduction surgery https://i.imgur.com/5BbgaLG.mp4 
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https://i.imgur.com/NxIWvPZ.mp4 Crime bird
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so fluff, so mischief, so mayo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcKArSDVh-Y I don't know what he's saying but he's so enthusiastic I can't help but agree
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Birds are just so amazed that other things have to obey the laws of gravity at all times.
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Jul 22, 2021 04:16
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Why is there a Wild Crested Doofus in my video game? 
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We recently visited my wife's family, including her sister's bird, scuttle. Despite having met me before, he is suspicious: He was very enamored with my son's hat though, to the point where Scuttle accepted a little touch from him while he tried serenading it. https://i.imgur.com/eb2St6T.mp4
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Oldsrocket_27 posted:We recently visited my wife's family, including her sister's bird, scuttle. Despite having met me before, he is suspicious: Be very careful of your son when he gets older. He is trying tempt his limits even at that age. He will be a teenager eventually and do things more dangerously lol. Anyway cute borb!!!
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nunsexmonkrock posted:Be very careful of your son when he gets older. He is trying tempt his limits even at that age. He will be a teenager eventually and do things more dangerously lol. Anyway cute borb!!! Oh we wouldn't have allowed him to touch scuttle if we didn't think it would be safe for the bird. We've been training our son on how touch things (Very gently! Never grab!) and he's never been the grabby hitting type. Around all pets he approaches cautiously and backs off like that. He hadn't been told not to touch, he'd been told to be gentle, so he wasn't testing limits or breaking rules. We also had them near each other in earlier encounters leading up to this to gauge reactions. This was at the end of a week of acclimating themselves to each other.
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I love Scuttle. I love birds, how are they even real
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Nikko's favorite place to get rubbed/scritched is his armpit (wingpit?) and I have no idea if that's normal or weird. When I'm giving him standard chin or belly attention he'll lean to his side and stretch a wing out in a very unsubtle invitation.
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