I forget to bring a shower perch with me all too often when I’m traveling. However, you don’t NEED a shower perch to get your bird to shower. Though I do believe it helps and everyone should have one

Improvising: it’s something we ALL have to do every once in a while! My birds have showered in so many different places and I forget sometimes how often they are used to showering since it rains every day in Florida and I make sure if they aren’t outside already enjoying it, that I get them …

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The move went fairly…smoothly.  There was a last minute change in the date we were to leave which created a bit of chaos for us all, and by us all I mean me.  The six days I thought I had left to finish my packing was shortened to two.  I managed to get most of it done, but I rushed through so much of it that I don’t remember which box contains what.

When they first arrived at my place with the trailer, Dave, always the comedian, came …

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If you know me at all, you know I LOVE spending holidays with my birds! They are so much fun and there is some desensitization that comes with sharing the holiday with your parrots. I immediately assumed (so not to be disappointed) that my birds might be scared of the pumpkins I got. Which is why I got three smaller sized ones instead of huge ones.

I spent Halloween Eve carving all the pumpkins with Patty, who also blogs on here. Dave and her helped me along with the designs and I did all the …

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A lot of you have been asking on facebook about certain locations and why we fly at the places we do with our birds and our newest freeflight students.

I have to come out and admit, a lot of the places are random when it’s just me and Dave flying our flock. We travel A LOT and when we are, we are always looking at possible places to fly our birds.

The main reason we fly where we do it based on where our Freestyle Flyer students live. It’s always good for us to go …

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Our aviaries will be used as full time cages during non-winter months. Here in Virginia we can’t keep the birds out all year round due to a few cold months and “very” cold nights. Once we get the birds into the aviaries we will be keeping them in the aviaries all the time. We won’t bring them in at night, although, we do have indoor cages for all our birds in case we should have “severe weather”. Currently we keep over half of our birds in their cages outdoors on either a deck up against the house or in an …

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Even if you are very careful with your own birds and make all necessary precautions to keep smoke, teflon, chocolate, avacado, and other deadly substances away from your bird, it’s a whole other story if you have unfamiliar people involved.

In my household everything is basically bird proof and I begin to take it for granted. I don’t have any teflon pans, no avacados, chocloate is put away, no ceiling fans, no toxis plants, controlled drafts, bathroom doors always closed, two doors to go outside of the house, no other pets, etc. I have all the necessary precautions for living with …

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