Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Savannah, GA Shown: Dave setting up tarps on traveling aviaries by Customcages.com.   Since we travel with our parrot aviaries, we encounter all types of different elements that effect us outdoors. From temperatures, to wind, to whoever our neighbors happen to be (lions, elephants, dogs, horses...) But the thing...

Photo by Dave Location: Springfield, MA Road trippin': 7 birds; 3 macaws, 3 cockatoos & an African Grey Our fancy-shmancy bird trailer had bent axels that needed to be repaired so we had to ditch it in one city for two weeks and survive without it. Boy can I tell you right now... it sucked.   Traveling with parrots is no big deal when you...

Dave and I always talk to people about the "Gypsy Experience", and the long version and seminar is on the Total Transformation Parrot Training course. But I'm here to give you the short version, the basics, because it's a lifestyle I live every day with my birds and I'm all about sharing that with you, my fellow bird caretakers. The video abov...

Photo by Amanda Stevens Location: Waynesboro, VA Cuddling: Blue and gold macaw "Coco" I'm all over the place mostly, but I'm going to be dedicating most of my updates and posts back to this blog for a while. I feel better writing here. And if I do say so, Patty and Chet and our random guest bloggers do a swell job over at the other training b...

Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Waco, Texas Upside down: Blue throated macaw "Jinx" This is my macaw Jinx in his traveling cage for when we drive from one place to another. For more images of how my birds currently travel from place to place, check out more of my photos on flickr. Whenever we are traveling from one place to another, and it's q...

Photo by Heinz Kluetmeier Location: Sarasota, Florida Pictured: Swainson Toucan "Fiji" I hate that I've not updated as much over here. However, I've been busy over at the birdtricks.com blog where it's practically updated daily! At least when I can think of enough content, hehe. However, I wanted to let you all know here about some very exci...