The birds went outside yesterday(pics)

[Care2Adopt]

Thought you all might enjoy this- I took the macaws outside for a couple hours of sunworship yesterday. I pretty much stayed hunkered in the shade and had a beer and read a book, but they had fun soaking up all the rays. It was about 75 here. Milo, my female blue and  gold, is a lunatic and ran all over the deck and up and down everything and chased the boys and laughed and rolled around on her back and tried to steal my doritos.

Anyway, enjoy!

[lorim2]

What great pics!  I love birds and yours are just beautiful!  I hope someday to have a cockatoo but until I can afford one or one just drops in my lap I will just keep wishing and looking at your pretty babies!!

[Care2Adopt]

Good for you! Convincing yourself to get a second macaw is the hardest part- now you have opened the door for your third, fourth fifth etc LOL! What kind of macaw is she? I know the one is a B&G

Milo was my only bird for 11 years. Then my roommate brought home a sunconure she fell in love with while doing work at a Petco. Then I rescued Maui... then I rescued MaiTai 3 months later (He was being kept in a dog crate in a basment/garage and fed monkey buscuits, thats why he is so small for a greenwing, he is stunted) Then I rescued 36 lovebirds, a nanday conure, two parakeets and a cockatiel from some idiot in my neighborhood. I found all the birds homes except for 6 lovebirds which I kept.

So they pretty much rule the house here. The macaws aren't caged pretty much 24/7- half of my living room is nothing but hoopballs, gyms, swings, perches and toys, and they have pretty much free reign of that. They also get to go outside almost every day when it is nice, and play on the deck, or in the trees, and we are in the process of building an outside aviary for them. We feed roudybush and harrisons, and they get fresh fruits and veggies every morning. I started a garden for them that has corn, sunflowers, squash, tomatoes, chili peppers, watermelon, grapes and beans, so thats what they get mostly. One plant each is enough to satisfy LOL and they LOVE fresh sunflower heads.

Milo is my spoiled brat of a macaw- I didn't know any better when I was a kid and I did things with her that now make me cringe. I took her EVERYWHERE with me, like a dog. and fully flighted with no harness! She rode on my handlebars when I went on a bike ride, she went to the store with me when we would ride down to go to the drug store, she went fishing and climbing through the woods, and I taught her to fly up into the club house when we would climb up. She even went to high school with me my junior and senior year, almost every day. her picture is in the year book under graduating seniors

heres a couple more pics for you:



Milo


Maui




MaiTai


MaiTai


Hoopball


Milo on the ball

[Butts Mom]

Wow-all the feathered babies are beautiful!!!!!! I'd post some pcis of mine,but then this thread would take up too many pages:) Here's the link to their website:

http://www.toolady.com/www/home/sarge/

[Pyr Heaven]

You all have such beautiful birds!!!I've never owned birds before,but I've always been interested in them. Thanks so much for sharing all these pics!

[zchic]

I haven't been  on for awhile, but it is good to see other parrot owners...espec ially Macaws. I have 4 macaws. Groovy the scarlet, Stevie the ruby (scarlet greenwing hybrid) and Bonnie the Blue Throated macaw. then there is L.B. he is a severe macaw. I had a Hahns but he was adopted today.

[Care2Adopt]

Butts mom- how do you have time to sleep with all those macaws?? And Conures! My three about drive me insane keeping them active and happy and trying to sleep through all the SCREAMING! Your guys are all so beautiful! Glad to know there are other fid owners on here!! (Fid=Feathered Kid)

[GoldenPyrs]

You all have really, really beautiful birds!  I just wanted to tell you that my youngest son sat on my lap and looked at all of the bird pics this afternoon and he adored them.