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Bird Videos

I hope you enjoy these short bird video clips. Some you have probably seenbefore. Always fun though. Who says birds aren't smart? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVtBKfZhCd8&mode=related&search Look at this cute Eclectus. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYusJnKKtKo&search=parrot This is cute. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA3do8epMJo&mode=related&search=parrot Einstein, a smart African Grey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ3h2ORz5_M&search=parrot Zachary, a smart Macaw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMQWlX7OcX8&search=parrot Wazoo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAml2SF5GMs&search=parrot Bet you haven't seen this before http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CklFsSWgrqE&search=parrot The Bologna Song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o46J1e4BUvY&search=parrot

An Owner's Perspective

As I walk through the local grocery store with Chanceman on my shoulder, I stop at the veggies and fruits and talk quietly, asking C-man what looks good to him. I feel a beak push its way into my ear and I shake my head. I wish he would move to my other shoulder so I could check before anyone else notices. You see, this little green quaker parrot sits on my right shoulder having juice and cracker with me almost every night, and I do other things, like read the Fonzie books to him or look through magazines, separate safflower seeds from the other pellets and grains that I have in a large plastic bucket (because quakers don't need safflower seeds, too oily and fatty) or just watch tv. Chanceman has gotten quite good at putting chewed cracker in my ear without my knowing this, and since I've already taken a shower, I'm not picking at my ears. And as the next day starts and we go about our "work", he checks to see if the cracker is still there, because he wants a...