Here's a thread for our birds!!!

This is our little duck, Yerpsalot



He loves that skirt, every time I wear it, he pecks at me and yells until I take it off and let him nest in it!

The other night, I was listening to that youtube link Ajax put in "the weird thread", of Bush talking about his dreams of going to Mars, and Yerps came running in the room squealing his head off!!! The when it was over, he got all upset until I turned it on again! I was like NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! My husband said Yerps just recognized another bird-brain, that's all Yerps is actually VERY clever.

Yerp watching Cinderella - he LOVES ot, I guess because of all the chirping birds




Yerp bows his head to ask to be patted - he's bowing his head to Cinderella's stepsisters and stepmother - I always knew he was a slytherin

What's yerpsalot WEARING? It looks like a tea-cozy!Quite a zoo ya got there!
I went to Weir Farm Tuesday to paint and I saw HUNDREDS of Bluebirds in the meadows.What a lovely sight! They were cooperatively landing on the long grasses to bring the seedheads to the ground so they all could eat .Very cute.

Oh wow, 1bun, that sounds absolutely beautiful!!!

Yerpie wears a little diaper-harness, and what you see is the gingham cover He's a full-time house duck. He really can't live outside, he seeks out humans, except for that time he flew off with a flock of Quaker parrots. Sigh.

This is our other duck, David, a Muscovy.




He lives outside but spends time inside with me, like right now, since he lost all his (and my) girls. He's a bit on the old side - while I was typing this he started gagging on something and I had to go remind him to take a drink of water Silly boy.

the duck is your pet?

interesting

can't have a dog or cat here, but birds are kosher

where's the diaper thingy from?

Oh Winston, you can go to two places, depending on if you have a duck or goose, or if you have a parrot-type bird.

Goosemother

Flightquarters/Avian Fashions

Goosemother (Nancy) is VERY nice, and makes good things, but Yerp is so small that I'm going to ask her if either she can work on adjusting how she makes his harnesses, or I might look into going to flight quarters, since they make harnesses for small birds. Then again she makes them for ducklings, maybe she'll make some for Yerps in a duckling size - when I first saw him, I just saw him profiled against the streetlight (some girls in my neighborhood had found him and came and got me) and I thought he was a 7-week-old muscovy.

Nice cockatiel!I had one named Cyd Vicious(he bit and hissed).Finally tamed him with bits of my buttered English muffin every morning. Another cockatiel,Cyd 2,tried to teach us cockatiel-ese.Really!
First,he would whistle one note,we would repeat the whistle,then he would repeat the same noteand add one..back and forth until we screwed up at which point he would shake his head no!Don't know what we were saying though,we are so ignorant and the birds are so smart!

Ducky David! Man,you've got to love the face,Gwynnogsrabbit!

We have tons of little Sandpipers here, they run around rather than fly, and they run in front of the tractor or the horses, when they're babies they are so helpless. I've picked up dozens to rehab in the barn, then they are really clingy. I was feeding a couple weeks ago and one that I had saved followed me every where, it even jumped up on the tractor and rode along with me!!! The pigeons, well that's a different story. They shit on everything. My wife won't let me eradicate them. I have seen red tail hawks go after the pigeons, and the wife can't stop them!!!

Awww thanks 1bun!!! Most people think the male muscoveys are butt ugly, but I love them. They can be fierce, though!

Aw Tap What happens when the baby sandpipers grow up, do they go off on their own or keep hanging out with you?

Some do, some don't. Most of them leave when it get's real cold out, then they return the next year. I had one baby that I out in the glove box on the tractor, brought it back to the barn, the wife brought it in the house because it's getting colder at night. 2 weeks later we let it go. That was last year. This year it came back, I mean it had to be the same one. It was on our deck, and I had to smack the one cat BOBO, with a flyswatter to make her leave it alone. I'm like shit go eat the pigeons, leave the 'pipers alone. They really are a very sweet bird.

Another wild bird story.
When I lived in the woods of Bethlehem and cut my own firewood,a Quail took to following me around,Whooping!I named him Teddy, after Teddy Roosevelt mostly for his trait of attacking machinery,cars rototillers and suchlike-he actually flew into the back of a convertable , beating it with his wings and whooping all the time. I felled a tree with my bowsaw and he ran up and down the trunk and through the handle of the bowsaw!He was really crazy and courageous,but alas,he disappeared.Probably went out fighting.Miss him.

What do you feed your baby sandpipers, Tap? It would be good to know - I work with our wildlife care center, but I don't know if we've ever had sandpipers. They might be a more northern bird. I mean, I know the ones on the New Jersey beach would run up and down the surf eating what I guess were tiny crustaceans, but what do they eat in Illinois?

Here I am thinking it's a thread about McStupid supporters!

Well I named it right after my husband said that our duck liked Bush's voice, because he recognized another bird brain. Hey, where is that duck, I just realized he's being too quiet.

Yerps likes Bush's Voice????????AaaaK!
Well,our cockatiels liked,respectively,bagpipe music and singing along with the spin cycle on the washing machine!
Really, you must try the documentary "Winged Migration".Lots o'Birds and they probably can straighten him out.

EVERYBODY DUCK!!!!





....Ok, so it wasn't that funny.

That's soooo classic.

Captain, we yell that all the time when Yerps comes screaching over our heads!

Thanks 1bun I'll look for it! Yerps does like Disco Duck, and the beep that the cartoon roadrunner makes.

Yerpsie likes the play-tunnel I got for Hef, but he was more cautious than Hef was at first - here he is peaking in wondering why Hef was going nuts in it, you can just see him looking around the corner on the far right



And here he is once he was brave enough to go in, then yelling at me to get lost!

I had a parakeet named T. rex. I used to let him fly freely around the house and he was a very quiet and curious little friend (would perch on my shoulder while I typed). One day I heard my soprano steel drum pinging in the other room. T. rex had discovered he could tap out tunes with his beak on the pan and amused both of us with some random tunes. He passed away three years ago and I really miss him.

That is one smart seagull!

I was playing a gig last summer at a party at a La-Z-Boy store at a mall in Saugus, MA (I kid you not) and I happened to glance toward the glass door. A seagull was pecking on the glass--it wanted to be let in so it could chow down with the guests! Wish I'd had a camera.

Too bad there was no youtube then. You could have given the "Hamster on a Piano" and the Cat Playing Piano videos some real competition.

Many years ago I had a neighbor who kept animals in his suburban backyard. He had rabbits,
goats, and a Muscovy duck very much like yours. The duck's name was Bud (we called him "Bud the Duck") and he liked to explore. He walked right up our front steps into our house whenever he got the chance.