Léa's continuous molt

I discussed about her losing some of the orange feathers on her head, here are some feathers I've collected over the last week alone. She's definitively molting out of her baby feathers.



(I meant to share something taken with my DSLR, but I was unhappy with those shots, kinda liked the processing I was able to do on my phone..as I stupidly tried taking pictures of the loose feathers with Léa out and one visit from her sent them all flying..)

Walking the tight rope..

..er..tight branch?

A very red pin feather

A lot of the other orangy/reddish pin feathers she had on her legs that I posted about the other day were orangy/red on the fringe or were tiny feathers.

This pin feather though - I'm pretty sure will be the first full blown coral leg warmer feather ;)
It looks nothing like the others, it's definitively going to be a big feather and it's quite vivid in colour.

Taking pictures of it wasn't easy though..

More Things for Wings Works of Art!

With each new toy she creates, Danita is making it harder and harder on me to want to give her toys to the birds - they are truly little works of art. But their purpose is to keep beaks busy so I'll just face the music and hang these beautiful toys in the cages.

This order was all about the Winter/Christmas collections available right now at T4W. I showed restraint and didn't order one of everything..but it was a difficult task!

My favorite of the collections has to be the Snowmen collection - it's simply adorable!

Some toys from the Snowmen Collection -

Snowmen Trio & Snowman Wiggle and Jiggle



Baby, it's cold outside




I also got a few toys from the Festive Collection -

Holly Pod Shaker & Grandma's Christmas Tree



Evergreen (x2)



Holly Jolly Shredder



While I find that Danita has outdone herself with all these toys and that I love them all, I do have one favorite, one that will be harder to give up.

From the North Pole Collection -

Elf



The collections seem to be ever expanding - just as I was typing this I have noticed new toys that have been added. I think it's safe to say that I might just have to put in another order for more of these toys!

Hey Joey! Hi Petey!

These are the greetings we get by Joey and Petey (each saying the one with their respective names).

But there might be a new bird in the mix saying these things.

The Boy had mentioned in the past that Pixel had started staying "Hey Joey" (she's also nicked his low toned "hello" and makes it very confusing as to know who's saying it when..). He was surprised that she hadn't picked "Hi Petey" yet as Petey does repeat that one very often.

Well this morning she said it - a rather clear "Hi Petey" although not exactly said in the same way Petey will say it.

It was cute!

Dainty Sleepy Beauties

Expanded heads

More iPhone fun I'm afraid..

Yes?



Does this really make my head look bigger?

When you turned 6 months old...

You were very active - always on the go, go, GO!



You also lost some of the orange feathers on your head, resulting in a "splotchy" looking forehead - after all, must make way for those adult feathers! Talking about those adult feathers, you had quite a few pin feathers growing on your head which made it very itchy and therefore, you demanded quite a few more head scritches!





And you also had those pin feathers on your legs - and a few of them I'm hopeful by their orange tint will grow into those beautiful coral leg warmers that are typical of Cape parrots.


One tiny orange feather showing on your right ankle (there were actually two orange feathers at this time, but I couldn't photograph both)


Quite a few orange looking feathers on the left ankle!

Happy 6 months to you Léa!

A little blue bird

..who thinks he's REALLY big and definitively has a big personality!

Why I can't always take pictures of Petey

Often I take pictures of the others and post and a picture of Petey will be missing.

It's not that I don't want to take a picture of him, but he's not always cooperative.

See, this is what he does when a camera is pointed in his direction - move, move and move!

And I thought hormones were dying down..

..I was wrong.

So very wrong.

The Boy was letting the birds out a few minutes ago as I waited in the living room for them - most of them generally fly out of the birdroom on their own.

Generally this goes over fine, albeit the Red-bellieds landings are always something to watch out for as they come out of the birdroom very fast and don't generally know where they want to land until they are .5 seconds away from landing.

Tonight...well I don't know if they had conspired about what they did, but they were bad.

Joey was out first - I honestly can't remember if Piper was on me or close to me but all I know is that Joey went for my head - and he was NOT nice about it. It could have been that Piper was on my head and he decided to go for him, as he's done so a few times (although rarely as he's generally pretty subdued) or he might have just gone for me. I don't know. But I ended up shielding my face with my arm and it's good, since he decided to latch onto my hand. He's never done this before.

Oh and Piper is fine.

Pixel on the other hand went straight for Shade. I heard a scream but that was immediately followed by sounds of a bird flying off (this happened as I had Joey on me) and it ended up being Shade who had moved on to another tree. Once I was rid of Joey, I checked her out and she was fine. While Joey acting how he did was out of the ordinary, what happened between Pixel and Shade isn't so much. I always check where Pixel intends to land as she's tried what she did tonight in the past. Shade also seems to know of Pixel's intentions and that's probably why she managed to avoid the attack.

All of them were doing so much better lately. Why this happened tonight, why both of them did what they did at the same time eludes me - well I can only guess that Pixel seeing me occupied with Joey figured there was an opening for mischief of her own..

Never let your guard down.

A series of Léa videos

The following two have been taken with my iPhone last evening - must say I was pleasantly surprise by how they came out!

Léa enjoying one of the Atoms.



Léa saying "oui oui oui" (very short video, you might want to bring the volume up to hear properly)



This last video was taken a while ago with our video camera. She had a down feather on her beak and I found it cute (I might or might not have put it back on her beak on a few occasions..)

Point a camera in his face..

...and he'll just preen, preen, preen!

Happy and content

Bobble head Zuri

More phone camera fun.