Here's your Morgan fix this week! First off, due to weather I was only able to work on outdoor desensitization one day (come on, Idaho-spring!) And here is what that looked like: After some serious time off from YouTube, Patty came back in a whole new light! Check out her and I training with our macaws, flying them back and forth between one an...

Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Emerald Forest Bird Ranch Pictured: Channel bill toucans I'd been working out dates to come out and visit Emerald Forest for months and was so nervous something would happen to make it fall through. I was communicating back and forth with Jerry about the visit as well as my constant toucan-impulse questions that ar...

Photo by Dave Location: Centralia, WA Outside on a foraging tree: Blue and gold macaw "Tiko" I’m an AVID believer in supplying your bird with real sunlight that only an outdoor aviary can provide, however, “aviary rules” are different based on where you live. How often your bird can even use one is dependent on the weather wherever you live, ...

Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Orlando, FL Shown: Blue throat macaw "Jinx" in aviary with zip tied manila rope Recently I got asked how to secure down water bottles inside bird cages so that the birds wouldn't break them free and drop them to the ground. Now currently, I don't use water bottles full time, I normally just use them for when I'm ...

Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Savannah, GA Shown: One aviary packed up In order to travel with our aviaries we had to have something made to pack them into, as the crates they came into were not ideal for multiple trips. So we had a local welder on our show make this framing in which the aviaries tie strap into. I've included photos so you c...

Photo by Amanda Stevens Location: Waynesboro, VA Playing: Galah "Bandit"  Preferably, I like setting my aviaries up on grass. When that isn't available, dirt is fine and when that isn't available that usually means it's on gravel or cement, or inside a building and their ground is sawdust. But I love it when they can be set up on untreated gr...