Here are a few new pictures of Parry, enjoying her time on a playstand. she just LOVES that small towel, and occasionally bites on the large wood piece next to her. parry just loves veggies (no corn tho)!

parry has been a doll! i don't know if i've stated it here, but she and i have had a breakthrough a few weeks ago. with parry in her cage, she allowed me to actually give her a good head scratch...and on more than one occasion! i have been so thrilled by that.

she also plays the games, which she plays with my husband, with me....the "turning your head quickly to one side and parry mimics" game, or the "head bopping like night at the roxberry's" game. i just call her name and we start playing.

parry is a very inquisitive and interactive bird. she LOVES attention and her favorite place in the house to be is in the bathroom because of all the nice soft towels that she can chew on. we have had to stop her from going in there because she can get very territorial and aggressive.

You think owning a parrot (or two) is for you? Have you ever thought about whether you would be able to take the chatty "contact calls" that happen every morning and every evening? Play the following movie with your sound up all the way. This is in a house with 8 parrots, just after breakfast. (We cover the ground with towels to catch the poop.) Enjoy!

PS: I look forward to these conversations...:-)

parry enjoying a head scritch from my husband

parry is really a great bird. she still plucks, unfortunately, but we do use various foraging toys and let her out of her cage a lot to dissuade her from this. she still works very well with my husband, stepping up when asked. for me, mostly because i am very intimidated by her beak, i only interact with her by handing her treats or talking with her. i don't really show her my fear just because its not really a fear anymore since i've lived with her for a couple of months (i do stand my ground, which she just decides she can walk over my lap like a small road-block, lol). i just rather have a good living relationship with her without putting more stress on her and me.

things are going well. she likes to rip up towels, which we have a few old ones reserved for her.

Parry just received some really great toys donated by the wonderful people at Parrot Toy Angels! They are absolutely beautiful and well-made. We have introduced her to one of them...here is Parry playing with her new toy.





Parry loves her foraging time, even though this time may be short. why short? because she will visit ALL foraging "stations" once she gets into her cage at night and digs out her treats all at once. we try to change the places and which place has a nut and which just has pieces of wood or paper in it, but she's just quick.

She does continue to pluck herself, but i'm still positive that she will someday stop. she has started to really enjoy her multi-weekly baths so maybe this will help stop the plucking as well.

Parry is definitely a character! she has found her newest playground (which we are certainly trying to discourage for many reasons!) in our bedroom closet. we usually open her cage and let her walk out into the living room, where we place her on a playstand. i close the bathroom door since she has shown much interest in tearing up our bathroom rug to pieces. but we have left our bedroom door open a few times and twice, so far, she has walked straight into our bedroom and into our warm, soft, dark closet.

during once instance, i actually SAT in the doorway of our bedroom and she was so determined to get into our bedroom, that she climbed over my leg to get into the room! (she was very polite about it too, and didn't pinch any skin). what a goofy girl!

Parry loves preening sessions with my husband and doing her own thing. we still fill up foraging toys around her cage to keep her busy during the day, but occasionally we find plucked feathers (even some drops of blood) around her cage and playstand. its disheartening, but we are trying. the next thing to try is changing her diet a bit. but i think this is probably more of a habit than a skin irritation - i could be wrong.