Thursday picture post

[shi_illegitima]

The first set is not new, indeed, I just played with them so you have probably seen some of these. I had to post them because he would not have forgiven me writing about feathered goodness and excluding him from the rendezvous.

Comments

[ever_smaller]

YAY! Thank you. :-)
Your little monster is so photogenic. He looks so good in black and white too! I love the way you write about them too. You make me want to actually come and meet them! (Or have one for myself, but I wouldnt know how to care for a bird, having only ever had cats and dogs before, and I wouldnt be able to afford them anyway, they are SO expensive)

:-)

[shi_illegitima]

It's funny what a camera-whore he has become when you know he was HYSTERICALLY AFRAID of the first digi I got - and that was no real camera, just that small thing 3 by 5 you can put to your keyes on a keychain. Now he's willing to stay in a pose for over 5 minutes when he sees me get the camera to take a picture, until he hears the sound indicated the picture is done.

You are right that parrots are expensive, especially when you're unfortunate enough to need the vet for something else than preventive annual check-ups. Birds need a specialized avian vet, and a specialized vet means lot of money. But they are so worth it. When you imagine that with good care, you have literally a buddy for life ... no getting to love them and losing them as with rodents or even cats and dogs. These big guys can become 50+ year old seniors :)

The more shadowy part of the subject ;) is that once you get infected by the parrot virus, your life gets a whole new dimension and you won't ever excape it anymore :)

[shi_illegitima]

E...S...cape, of course. Did I say I write like crap lately ?

[meilliyon_]

I love to read about the parrots and I think they're really adorable! Must be hard to not let them steal your heart.. Can they talk whole sentences n stuff?

Rabbits are pretty boring, compared to parrots. They're not talking to you, you can't have much fun with them.. But hey, we fell in love at the petstore!

[shi_illegitima]

A parrot adds a whole new dimension to your world, indeed. Because they are so different from any other pets I've ever had (and that we tried a lot, lol). They're smart. Too smart. Discussing with each other, playing mind games, trying to outsmart each other. I wouldn't believe it's possible in an animal if I didn't witnessed it daily - and even now, I am regularly SO amazed.

Here a piece I wrote someone before, because I wrote on the same lines whenever someone asks me and I'm starting to get lazy ;)

He's potty-trained so he knows he's only allowed to do his need at certain spots, and I have newspaper under his favorite perching places so that an eventual accident doesn't go on the carpet (fun cleaning up). In 99% cases, he says that he needs to go and friendly allows me to place him above the nexspaper if he's somewhere else :D (see, a Grey is his royal majesty, the highness. He knows very well WHERE to do it, but he won't bother to actually go there himself

[raveness_d]

Beautiful pics m'dear. :)

[shi_illegitima]

And I have a bad news. There is more to come. Once I'm busy, I go on a photographing frenzy, it would seem. Something similar to a binge =) except the victim isn't food (don't even THINK about making that remark, rofl !).

[kawaiinoir]

All so beautiful! But your little one is the most handsome ;)
It's lovely to watch animals in pairs I think x

[shi_illegitima]

Of course he's the loveliest and handsomestest Greyster in the world. And I belong to him ! Couldn't be beter. I'm still amazed at how much luck I've had with him because he's really downright a very relaxed bird. He traveled with us across the half of Europe 10 hours in the car, he had to suddenly spend several months without me, his person, and he came very well through the horrors at the vet & with the antibiotics.

Somehow, it just makes me very giggly, especially those two TAG's. They are smaller than Aswa who's not a Timneh but a Congo, and just ... I don't know. Something about them in the picture where they sit together in the cage makes them look so wonderfully naughty :>

[kawaiinoir]

It's weird because animal couples are so human in some ways but so unhuman in others... I think it's that which makes it feel so funny to watch... like they kind of act how you would expect, but kind of don't... if that makes any sense!

Your Greyster sounds like an absolute sweetheart. I would love to meet you both. It's a shame you both live so far away! x

[shi_illegitima]

We don't live so far away, actually. When you set a foot on continental Europe, don't forget to visit us. I'll have the tea ready =)

[sarakenobi]

such silly pictures of silly birds!!!

[shi_illegitima]

You hit the nail right on the head ! But hey, I had 100% that day. I bathed 4 birds, and all four of them enjoyed it. Definitely marking the day with a red stip in my diary ;)