148:365 - Twice in a row

She wrapped up last week and starts off this week.

And that feather that sticks out a little to the side - that is so her. Always one rebel feather, although never on the same side.

366:365 - Bonus picture!

It's not a great one by any means (Joey is essentially the only one who kinda is in focus and sharp), but all I got to take was one picture before mayhem ensued and I had to separate the three of them.

See, normally I could take a picture of this trio in one small area without too many issues. But Zuri has been really moody lately and Joey is acting a little more crazy than usual (and is actually the reason why I only got one picture).

Why not include any of the others?

Léa - she's not let out with the others because of her size and putting her close to them on a whim for a picture didn't seem like the best way to do introductions...

Piper - he wants little to do with pictures lately and would much prefer being on me so no cooperation from him (and I don't trust Joey close to Piper when he's in his extra crazy phase.)

Pixel - would relish the opportunity to being able to chase Shade from a close proximity so no go.

 Petey - he just doesn't do well with other birds that close to him.

So here we go, the very last picture of the project, featuring a little less than half my flock!

(Oh and this makes it 850 posts for 2012!!!)

365:365 - Day 365!

And here we are, the end!



Given my little miscalculation, I figured why not feature every bird on the last 365 picture. And because they won't all play nice and pose together, I had to go for the montage.

The blog will only allow me to go so big so if you want to see the above bigger, click here!

I'm happy it's over, but I'm also very happy I took on the project. However, I am looking forward to not having to take a daily picture for a while.

And because I can, here are all the individual pictures that went into the montage above!


Piper


Shade


Joey


Petey


Zuri


Pixel


Léa

Do I have anything else to say? Maybe, but not now, other than I find it awesome that Pixel spent her little time out for her picture yawning!

I should come up with some random stats from the pictures taken throughout the project, but not tonight.

And maybe there will be a bonus picture tomorrow..but just maybe!

364:365 - Petey

Here we are, today's post. One post away from "the big one".

I don't know if anyone had noticed, but lately I had always posted pictures the day after I took them. Not sure why, it was a habit I had gotten into. But I figured I should really post today's picture today. The perfect lead up to the last one.

I'll also let you into a little secret, which I guess will show how bad I thought things through. This picture is the last picture for this week, I completed another series of 7. When I initially started the project, I thought it would be perfect to do this with 7 birds, as there are 7 days in a week and 52 weeks to a year...I didn't think of that extra day.

For a while, people have been asking me on a forum where I've been posting the pictures throughout the project if I was going to take a picture for day 366, given this year is a leap year, and I always replied "maybe" and I had something in mind.

But given the recent realization of my little "problem", guess I'll have to use that idea tomorrow. As well, should I decide to take a picture for day 366, I have another little idea budding in the back of mind, but whether or not it'll come to fruition is still up in the air.

Nevertheless, the fact that there only remains one last official day is making me very happy right now!

363:365 - Almost window sill Zuri

Obviously I was trying to get him to stand on the window sill to take his picture yesterday.
But he didn't want to step down. So I went with it, given I still wanted a picture lit by natural light.

I like the result.

I made it!!

Lately it has seem that one of Petey's goals when out of the cage has been to make it onto the Boy's camera bag. Something the Boy was quite adamant about preventing since he's afraid of holes and chewed zippers.

Then yesterday it happened - the Boy was too engrossed in an article he was reading to notice Petey inching towards his bag and eventually getting on it. He was totally oblivious.

Which I found rather amusing.



To be honest though, Petey is pretty good. All he did was what I like to call "measure" the bag, aka rub his beak back and forth as long as he can. Had it been Joey, I think the risk of holes and chewed up things would have been exponentially higher.

362:365 - Pretty Pixel

361:365 - Chew, chew, chew!

This is how he decided to spend his photoshoot.
Made for a different "Joey" picture.

360:365 - Trying something different

And given she wasn't in a picture taking mood, I had little to work with.

5 more days.

I wonder who will be the happiest when this will be over - the birds or me...

359:365 - What?? I wasn't thinking about it!

Here is Léa trying to convince us that she wasn't thinking of licking the condensation off the window...

This was almost the picture for day 358

It was a tough call - I really liked both pictures!

358:365 - How can I resist him?

Adorable little Piper wanting his head scratched!

357:365 - Stretching time!

Pretty Shade

After posting that earlier picture of Piper this morning and having looked at some pictures I've taken over the last few days, I decided that, for fun, I'll go ahead and post seven different posts today, each containing a picture (or two...or three..) of each of my parrots. This could also includes yesterday's 365 picture.

Given I started with Piper and followed up with Shade, I might just continue and post them in the order in which I got my birds...or I might mix it up. I haven't decided it!

 Here's one more picture of Shade, which I find quite cute and funny!

356:365 - Flash those colours!

Yes, she has a pretty colourful "V" on her chest, but I think some people don't think of Senegals are particularly colourful birds, especially when you look at them from the back (and all you see is grey and green).

But here she is showing us the bright yellow under wings!

Just gorgeous!

355:365 - Dainty Petey

This makes me giggle.
He's been quite cooperative with pictures lately!

354:365 - Pixel

353:365 - Head on

She's definitively more active than she was this week-end.
She is really reminding me of Shade when she's the one going through a molt, especially when it's the flight feathers that are growing in. Shade gets subdued at first, then gets really edgy and will give some warning snaps every so harder than she usually does. This last phase usually happens when the flights have grown in enough but are still full of blood and sensible.

I'm guessing Léa is in a similar mood because she's much quicker to snap than she ever has been, and much harder too. But I'm guessing that if she has some sensitive feathers that have accidentally been touched the wrong way, it's not easy for her.

352:365 - Just keep preening for the camera!

A very old habit of his.

351:365 - I lucked out!

I'm happy I got this - he was quite adamant about being on me and not being perched somewhere for the sake of a picture.