My favorite season is autumn, hands down... no competition. I love the fall season with all its beautiful colors, changing and falling leaves, and gorgeous skies. I love the warm days followed by...

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We just recently started carving pumpkins WITH our birds. A couple years back I carved pumpkins randomly and tried to make my own bird designs and Cressi bit into my beautiful creation and began carving her own design.

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Photo by Dave Location: Centralia, WA Flying: Blue throated macaw "Jinx" It can be a huge challenge to encourage an older bird to fly. Depending on the situation, of course. But if you have an older bird and it refuses to fly, it’s likely because it has never flown in the past and it literally does not have the muscles to do so. When they sta...

Photo by Dave Location: Loveland, Colorado Pictured eating corn and brown rice: Camelot macaws "Comet" & "Tusa" Every once in a while a parrot related article will catch my eye and a recent on on malnutrition in parrots caught it this week. So I wanted to talk about the signs and symptoms of malnutrition, and what to do about it. First, wha...

Photo by Dave Location: Centralia, WA Pictured: my niece and nephew with Camelot Macaw "Comet" I love spending time with family, and for me, my pets are my family, which I think is true for everyone who has a pet whether it's a dog, cat, bird or ferret, or something else. Everyone grows very attached to their pets and looks at them as a membe...

Photo by Nathan Slabaugh Location: San Angelo, TX Pictured with me: Blue throated macaw "Jinx" Sometimes the affection my parrots show to me astounds me. I wonder, do they really know what they're saying to me? Can it be that an animal can feel love for a person? Especially a person as playful as I am? Do these birds even take me seriously? ...