my husband has made some major progress with Parry! he has been able to give Parry scratches on her head and under her chin through the cage bars...this started on tuesday.

Parry has not yet given me this honor, but i'm not pressuring anything. a bird this size needs complete respect. she has been happily taking treats very nicely from my hand through the bars. i even opened the cage once to give her a whole walnut and she took the walnut nicely.

I try to sit down with her and talk to her everyday. she likes to eat with company so I have had dinner with her. I ate the same veggies as she did for dinner and I made some "yummy" sounds which made her a little curious, so i let her see me as i dumped a bit of my veggies into her food bowl and she came right over. not sure how much she ate, but she ate some. we bought some long green beans from the farmer's market this past weekend and she just LOVES to take those, snap the top off and bite pieces of it off. with those pieces she opens it up carefully and eats the peas inside while discarding the rest of that piece.

She also showed an interest in tangarines (which we were told she likes).

Because she shows some curiosity, I am going to try to target train her and see where that takes us.

Today my husband - for the first time since she came here - took her out of her cage. he said that the first thing she did was clamor to the top of her cage. Then she moved onto the cage door and started "testing out" (tapping it with her beak) the window near her cage. - we definitely need watch that!

Parry seemed to have been okay with stepping up for him on to his stick (which we also got from his former owner), and my husband tried to take her into the shower. he first put her on the handle-bar of a step stool and tried to take her into the shower, but she stepped back on to the handle bar of the step stool. i told him to try and put a plastic chair that we have into the shower and have her perch there and turn on the shower...i think he is doing that now since i haven't heard from him in about 10 minutes (i guess its going well..?) i'll keep you posted!