Photo by Dave Location: Waynesboro, VA Hanging out on the deck w/me: Blue Fronted Amazon "Storm" & Pal "Dudditz" I went to see Storm from July 6-9 and it was SUCH a fun trip! I surprised him and came and said hello out on the deck where his cage is for him (the white one in the background) where he gets lots of interaction in the morning ...

Photo by Dave Location: Orlando, FL Flying: Hyacinth "Hymie" It has been getting easier and easier to ask Hymie to fly and here's why: When he was younger, he used to fly around his owner's house with a green wing macaw in tow. So he has had experience flying before and enjoyed it enough to want to experience it again. I've been spending ...

  Recently Dave joined me this month in trick training and just overall training our parrots new things... and one of the ideas he had was training them all to fly through hoops! So we got home hula hoops from our local Walgreens and started the training immediately.  Dave had already trained Tiko, his brother's blue and gold macaw, how to do t...

Photo by Dave Location: Orlando, Florida On my shoulder: Hyacinth Macaw "Hymie"  When I made my goals for Hymie, I didn't really take into account what it would take to get there. What I mean is, before I can even begin working on those things I want to do, I have to earn his trust first, kind of what Dave, Chet and I refer to as the "I can't g...

  Photo by Dave Location: Orlando, Florida Flying: Galah "Bondi"  Bondi is a rose breasted cockatoo also commonly known as a galah in Australia. She is three years old and was bought from her breeder fully flighted and was properly fledged by Dave Womach and I using target training. She is not only an avid flyer but a very skilled flyer. Dave u...