Breakfast

There’s nothing like a bowl of warm oatmeal for breakfast on a chilly winter morning, and a helpful hand to lift the spoon up to your beak!

Soup!

Don’t you just love soup? There’s nothing like a hot bowl of soup on a cold winter’s day, especially when you share it with your person. I like all kinds of soup, but my favorite kinds are the ones that have little seeds floating around in them. My person says they’re caraway seeds or fennel seeds. I don’t care what she calls them, as long as they’re seeds! The other good thing about soup is you can dunk bread in it. That’s so much fun. If you are a parrot, you’ll know what I’m talking about. 

Not Fair

My person feeds the outside birds in the wintertime. I don't have a problem with that in theory, but look what she feeds them:

She fills the whole feeder with sunflower seeds! What's the matter with that, you might ask. Well, the matter is that she never fills my feeder with sunflower seeds. I only get them as a special treat. I wouldn't say that was fair. Would you?

Turkeys!

Look at what I saw outside my window the other day! Turkeys are nice birds, but I sure am glad I'm not a turkey, especially at this time of year. I mean, aside from the fact that I wouldn't want to end up on someone's Thanksgiving dinner table, I just don't see the point of all that wandering around in the snow scavenging for food. We pet parrots are sensible enough to stay inside where it's warm and the food dish is full. 

Training Your Person: The Kitchen

The kitchen is a very interesting part of the house, and not only because it is a good place to take baths. The main reason is that the kitchen is where the food is kept and prepared, so it's very important to train your person to let you spend time there. The first thing you should do when you enter the kitchen is to check out the counter because that's where you're sure to find lots of unnoticed crumbs and other tiny bits of food, and possibly even a few stray seeds. I spend time grazing on the kitchen counter whenever I get a chance. My efforts are always rewarded.

Training Your Person: Baths

If you are a parrot, you love water,  especially bathing in it.  So it's very important to train your person to provide you with frequent bathing opportunities, whether it's a shower under spray bottle or a chance to splash around in a dish. In my case, the best chance for bathing comes every evening. One of my people washes the dishes every night after dinner, and it's my job to help him out by sitting on his shoulder while he washes. If I happen to be in the mood for a bath at this time, which I usually am because, I mean, what parrot can resist the sound of running water, all I have to do is squawk and chirp and flap my wings, and my person gets the message that it's bath time. He knows to set a pan of water on the counter and let me jump in.

I find that frying pans and cookie sheets make excellent bath tubs because they give me plenty of room to spread my wings, but I'm not above bathing in a saucepan or even a water glass if that's all that is available.

It's My Hatch Day!

Twenty-one years ago today I hatched out my egg, and I've been squawking ever since!  Here's photo of me enjoying a special hatch day lunch. Yum! I love cornbread.