Rant
You are reading a blog.
Blogs are considered social media.
I consider myself a social media guy telling my stories to you, listening to yours.
We press the digital flesh every day on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, LinkedIn and Pinterest.
How many times have you watched in awe as a flighted bird hops off the top of it’s cage – the “flap, flap, flap” then it lands on an inch wide piece of ceiling crown molding or a computer monitor and in bird speak says “what’s up?” Never giving a thought to that gravity thing that keeps the rest of us tethered to Mother Earth.
These are special creatures indeed.
Do we really give our birds enough credit for their ability to adapt?
Funny you should ask – file under life imitating art imitating life.
On the heels (<- pun) of last week’s blog entitled “How do birds sleep standing on one leg?” where we saw the most exceptional illustrations of how the flexor tendons in a birds leg act as an ingenious pulley system enabling a bird to firmly grasp a perch even while sleeping and in the case of birds of prey this system also aids in the killing of said prey.
Mother nature as usual was simple eloquent and right to the point. The question arose recently, for us, how do you shut down 50% of that system for maintenance? It’s been an interesting few days.
I purchased a new cage for my severe macaw about a year ago and the seed guards are only 3 inches in width. Since she seems to like to hang on the side of the cage, and of course poops while there, the guard doesn’t catch it and we have a mess on the floor.
Could you recommend a particular cage approx? 20 deep x 24 wide with larger seed guards? thanks!
Deb
We’ve all heard about all those government perks Swedes get – 97% of their healthcare is picked up by various Swedish taxing bodies (about 9% of Sweden’s costs for health and medical care amount to approximately 9 percent of Sweden’s gross domestic product GDP)
Stuff like 5 weeks paid vacation when you start a job, increasing with your length of tenure – 480 days of paid parental leave – it’s cold and dark and then sunny and perfect and all those beautiful women (although I’m reminded here in edit by Catherine that the beautiful women are not supplied by the government 🙁
From my exposure to falconry, I learned Peregrine Falcons can attain speeds of 300 miles an hour or more while in a dive pursuing prey. But what about getting from point a to b? How fast & long can a bird really fly before needing to land?
The potential danger of Teflon does go beyond cookware so I wanted to give you a little background.
Caged bird keepers know that bills are not something you pay, it’s the thing in front of your bird’s face.
Birds Unlimited posted a comment in last week’s blog about light and vitamin deficiencies. The incriminating statement I made was. “Finches are softbill birds & not able to crack the husks of seeds larger birds or “hookbills” never giving it a second thought having always lumped finches with softbills in the same category – which is incorrect I’ve come to find. Let’s do some fact-checking, shall we?
“THERE’S YOUR SIGN,” Bill Engvall
“My parrot is smarter than your Facebook developer,” mitchr
First of all I want to say that I’m proud that we went social media silent over the 2014 Christmas and Hanukkah holidays.
It’s time to celebrate the holidays with family and friends not stare into electronic boxes with glass windows to the universe. We all put our devices down for the holidays, right?
