Who's behind the basket?

What do you mean, I shouldn't be up here?

Batbird

Shade having some fun hanging upside-down.

Léa

She looks very sweet and calm in this picture, but, in reality, she wasn't. She was eying the camera and was just about to do something about it!

Preening Pixel

Blogger is adding a blue tint to the pictures this morning!

Playful Zuri

Basket excitement!

Joey loves the basket of toy parts!

A "recent" order from Things for Wings

Recent being very loosely used here - it is the most recent order I made for parrot related items and it did arrive in December, but I've definively had the things for a couple of weeks now!

The order included some Christmas themed toys for the birds (which they got on Christmas) and a 10lbs of TOPs pellets. Given the bag of food is not that interesting to look at (and is extremely reflective and doesn't photograph that well), I didn't snap a picture, but here are the toys:

Elf - Shade and Joey each got one of these -

Hats Off to Tookie - Zuri, Petey and Pixel got these -

Christmas Baby Buttons - for Piper
 

Country Santa - for Léa

Not much is left of the toys given to the smaller Pois; after all, they were mostly made of easy to destroy materials, but were also thoroughly enjoy. I don't always buy stuff with mostly balsa or cork, because of how quickly the toys will get decimated (pine gets destroyed but takes a little longer), but once in a while, it is a nice treat for them.

365:365 - Day 365!!

And the last one for the year!!

364:365 - Joey

For Tuesday, December 30th.

363:365 - Shade

A Christmas present

I have, in the past, mentioned having a portrait done of each of the birds by a local artist. The last one I had received was in December 2011, although I didn't remember it being that long ago!

Well, one of my Christmas presents from the Boy this year was a new portrait. Let's say when it appeared under the tree, it wasn't hard to guess what it was (even though it was wrapped) and since the last portrait was of Petey, I knew this one was going to be Zuri (as the portraits are being done in the order the birds joined the flock).

Here is a picture of it - which doesn't do it justice.

It's gorgeous! The Boy had provided the artist with a link to pictures I've taken of Zuri and this is the one he picked to base the painting on:

Here are links to previous posts for the other paintings I have:

Piper

Shade

Joey

Petey

Joey in a bowl

This is the new norm with him. This bowl generally holds a smaller one which holds fresh food (so we can take out the smaller bowls after breakfast and wash them in time for dinner, while the larger bowl remains in the cage until after dinner.

He generally does this when the smaller bowl is out of the larger one.

The eye

An alternate to one of the 365 shots I posted earlier. I quite liked Shade's pinned eye, although it is not the sharpest picture.

362:365 - Piper

For...today! I'm all up-to-date! And hoping to keep it this way until the end, which really shouldn't be too hard given there are only three days left!