Well not really a rescue, since he was just playing and was not really in any danger, just a tad to high for me :) After we rigged the Boing with a round clear plastic disk at the top, he can no longer get into the tree from the Boing.
Frodo climbed too high in the tree today, see this photo for the result www.flickr.com/photos/shon/169896432/
We had to ring the boing with a clear plastic disk on the top to prevent him from leaving the boing into the tree. Now he plays on the boing without trying to get into the tree :)
Pepper is very smart, he is one of the smallest of the baby parrots, but yet he is the first one to master escaping the pool to roam around the floor looking for adventures :)
Here is Jewel taking a bath with her favorite toy, her Boing! So the boing and Jewel get a bath today. She loves her water!
This little green guy is getting cuter every day.
This is Leia, she is almost covered with her beautiful feathers. The last place is always the crop area just above the belly.
Pepper, after filling his crop was ready to get out of the parrot play pen. He is the cutest thing to watch eat. I promise to get it on video this weekend.
Sammy actually uses his feet to play the piano. I ran to get the video camera after this shot, but he had stepped down :( I will try again next time.
Pepper is what we like to call in the tech world, a laptop-parrot.
Big Bird was the biggest by far when we started to hand feed this group so that is how he got his name. BY now Patience has caught up, but the name is already stuck.
We named her Patience, because that is how she acts, all the rest stand up and start begging when they see the food coming, but not this gal, not even when she is settled down and just getting ready to be fed with the spoon in front of her. The manners on this bird! She deserves to be called Patience.
FYI, we have no idea if this is a female, we just assume the lactk of uncontrollable immature behavior means it is a girl :)
This is Pac Man, we named him this not only because his head will be yellow, He eats like Pac Man, he is like a machine and always thinks he is hungry. It is actually funny to watch him be fed. I am going to try to get some video up of him eating.
This is Lucky, we named him that because when he was being pulled from the nest, the mamma launched a surprise attack and tried to bite the hand collecting him but actually grabbed Lucky by the head. He had some cuts on his head that we attended to. Lucky is all healed up now and is a little darling.
Jewel has been trying to talk lately. She has a good teacher, Frodo. In fact she has become very good at saying "Frodo". She has also learned, "Hello", and "Hi Mamma". We always wondered if the females would talk as much as the males or even talk at all. This answers out question.
This is Lucky the baby yellow-headed amazon at 30 days.
Sammy and Pepper, chose to perch side-by-side after getting full from their evening feeding.
These two are going to the same family when they are weaned and we are so happy for that. These guys are true buddies.
Frodo worked his way up off the Boing and into the tree. It was a really windy day and he was trying to get out of the wind. He was really excited about getting to play in the tree for awhile.
Although this looks like he is high up in a tree, this is only photographic trickery, I can actually reach this point and get him down quite easily from my Deck. The boing is just below and to the left out of view.
f you notice the male has a distinctively different shape beak at this age. I was told by another Eclectus expert you can sometimes determine the sex before colored feathers, by the shape of the beak. I now know what she meant.
Here comes the green guy! Zeus is starting to get this blue wing feathers.
Sammy and Pepper don't let a little thing like, species, effect their friendship :)
Sammy (Red-Sided Eclectus) and Pepper (Panama Amazon) have been adopted by the same family and will remain together when they are weaned and go to their new home.
We are happy for these two.
Sammy is almost completely covered with feathers now. Except for that little patch of grey on his head that has not come in yet, shhh, he does not like talking about that.
This is Pepper, he is getting lots of feathes and looking cuter every day.
The good thing is, he does not know it should have water in it :)
Obviously he snapped out of his day dream, and with the nice sideways look to assert his curiosity :)
This is Frodo's day dream daze, he does this sometimes. I often wonder what he is dreaming about.
We might have to find a new name for Leia, her brother was adopted and they want to call him Zeus.
This little guy has been adopted. His name is going to be Zeus now however. I guess Leia won't work for his siter now. I suppose she could be named Demeter, one of Zeus's sisters, the one he did not marry :)
Sammy started his weaning today. He is down to two feedings now. He is doing well at picking at food on his own, but he missed his mid day feeding. He filled up on some fresh sprouts and watermelon though later on :)
