Whats some funny/favorite story about your bird?

[rheashard2]

We have a big kitchen/family room setup, where one turns into the other at the kitchen island. If I'm in the kitchen, Scooter has to be in the kitchen. It doesn't matter that her cage is 10 feet away, and she can see everything I'm doing, she has to be in there with me. While I work she opens cabinet doors, inspects everything, chews on my shoelaces, opens more cabinet doors, tries to convince me to lift her up to the cooktop (No, we're not doing that), sits on my feet, opens more cabinet doors, slides open a few drawers to inspect them...

Your Scooter has dreams of being a chef. Nameliss has her dreams set on crafts; crochet, beading, sewing and more. She inspects everything. The most irritating is that she ignores bead work made for her explicit use. Nameliss lurks the grabs and empties the bags, drawers of beads. Pony beads are ignored, she goes for the micro beads. I wear trifocal so this is a major catastrophe! Look at micro beads compared to a dime and regular pony beads.

 

[GaleriaGila]

My 4-year-old budgie Ginger has always had an obsession with feet, I know other bird owners can relate with their birds. Whenever I take her out of her cage she immediately flies to my feet attacking them. When I bring guests over and I take him out the same thing happens he goes chasing everybody's feet.

Your Scooter has dreams of being a chef. Nameliss has her dreams set on crafts; crochet, beading, sewing and more. She inspects everything. The most irritating is that she ignores bead work made for her explicit use. Nameliss lurks the grabs and empties the bags, drawers of beads. Pony beads are ignored, she goes for the micro beads. I wear trifocal so this is a major catastrophe! Look at micro beads compared to a dime and regular pony beads.

Fascinating inspiration! Our birds are really just expressing their ambitions through behaviors.
So... the Rickeybird apparently aspires to be aspiring to be a professional impersonator of the Tasmanian Devil!

 

[GivemeSeedsorgivemeFlesh]

We tend to let Bella free range in the house a large part of the day.
She spends much of the time in the kitchen.
We mostly have to depend on sound to know if she is up to no good.
Unfortunately.
Bananas don’t make much noise

That's hilarious

 

[GivemeSeedsorgivemeFlesh]

Ollie McBudgie's beard feathers are stained with pea/walnut/cherry juice. Not sure how to get that out...

 

[wrench13]

Now for a non-Salty story. Our dearly departed Canary Winged Parrot (a BeeBee parrot) Max was so typical of small parrots like parrotlets and similar species. They are bold and stubborn. And usually have volatile tempers. We had one of those table top waterfall things popular a decade ago, with multiple levels filled with small river stones like 1/2" (12mm) big. Max was hanging out on the top level when he dislodged one of the stones and it went tumbling down a few levels. This upset Max and he climbed down and grabbed one stone from that level and brought it back to the top. BUT - in doing that, more stones came loose and cascaded down. This ENRAGED this bird!! And for the next 10 minutes he climbed up and down trying to replace all these little stones, making tiny angry parrot noises the whole time. All the time making it worse and worse. Very funny to watch!

Another time we were playing Scrabble, and Max decided to join in, throwing the letter tiles from my rack faster then I could replace them. Fling, fling, fling and suddenly I got no letters left!

 

[Jcas]

We had some good friends visiting over the Thanksgiving holiday a couple weeks ago. As we sat around talking late in the evening, our friends were startled and confused by the sound of a baby crying. We explained to them it was just JJ the Quaker parrot who learned to mimic my youngest niece crying when she was an infant. They thought that was pretty funny!