Fiesty

I spent some tv time with my little man gonzo. I would recommend a green-cheek conure to anyone interested in birds. He is such a sweet, spunky, little ham. He likes to get into whatever mommy is doing and begs for head scratches. We were sitting down watching the first Jurassic Park movie and he had me laughing the whole time. Anytime one of the dinosaurs on the screen roared he had to copy them by growling. It is so cute too because he makes this little high pitched growl that sounds almost like a raspberry noise. He was really getting into the movie. My husband said that he was feeling his "maleness" and was trying to protect me. He was definitely being fiesty with his growling and puffing up. Thank goodness he is a sweet beak for me.

Hats for Birds

Ok so this has nothing to do with my parrots but the pictures are hillarious! If you love birds, you will love them even more wearing hats.

This is from the website Something Awful. Its called Hats for Birds.
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/comedy-goldmine/birds-wearing-hats.php?page=1

Shake-a-bell

Bobby likes to make fun of me and call me nasty names sometimes. He is not a big fan of the ladies but I love him just the same. One game that he will play with me for hours on end is his "shake a bell" game.

This is Bobby taunting me into playing his favorite game. He usually squeals really lound and bobs his head up and down. I have to be careful not to try to touch him or he will try to pinch me. Basically I say "Bobby, shake a bell," and he squeals really loud in his excited voice. Then he runs over to the toy and shakes on of the bells as hard as he can. Then he stops and waits for me to copy him. Maybe he thinks he is training me.

This is Bobby shaking the bell. When he really gets going he looks like he might get dizzy, but no such luck. He is lighting fast and will go right back to taunting me into playing another round as soon as I and done shaking the other bell. You can tell this is his favorite game because the paint is coming of the bottom of both the bells.

Fetishes

Bert has a very strange attraction to toes. I don't know what exactly is going on in his mind when he sees them but he absolutely loves feet! A couple times a week I will give into his dancing and whistling and let him have at it. He has never actually bitten me while playing this silly game and he will only play it when my husband is out of the room. I am actually surprised I was able to get pictures of him doing this since he is so shy about it. Sometimes he likes to play fight against my feet by headbutting my feet and then running backwards and charging them time after time. Usually though he just tries to feed my toes. He really likes it when I pinch his beak between my toes. He starts laughing and whistling. Does any one else out there have parrots with as weird a fetish as this? I don't want to believe that Bert is weird cause I am sure that there are others out there like him. I think my husband is jealous that there is another man in my life who likes to tickle my feet. I live in a very weird house indeed.



The first picture is of me pinching Bert's beak with my monkey toes. He absolutely adores this and why I don't know.

The second picture is Bert playing peek-a-boo behind my feet.

Bert's favorite show

TV time at night is the perfect time for Bert to join us for some R&R. He enjoys watching cartoons with us or cheering us on while we play video games. However his favorite show of the evening is watching what I call "Dogs behaving badly." This is his typical expression when our two dogs begin fighting over their toys.

This is a bird's eye view of some of the chaos. Sometimes Bert will try egging them on by climbing down to the bottom of his playgym and hollering "bobobobo." I don't exactly know what this means in Bert-speak, but he always says it whenever he is really enjoying himself. Sometimes he will try to join in on the action by either throwing food scraps at the dogs or by actually jumping down to the floor and trying to chase after them. The funny thing is that the dogs are actually scared to death of Bert.