First Feeding and First Flight... a great way to end May!

Wow... where has the month gone? This has been a very busy month for us - bringing in 3 Congo Grey babies to the nursery, boarding one of our former babies (Buddy the Senegal) here at Beaker's Spa, and making flight arrangements to bring in a Blue-Headed Pionus, Meyers Parrot, two Caiques and a Double-Yellow headed amazon for new customers in the first two weeks in June . It's going to get even busier with 5 new mouths to feed along with the 4 we currently have going through our process (Eleanora, Senegal, Eclectus, Greenwing).

And then there are visiting days, which we LOVE. This past weekend, we had another two firsts - Daddy Steve (of the Greenwing) hand-fed Levi for the first time and ZuZu, the baby Eleanora Cockatoo took her first 'controlled' flights and I captured both on video. You know how I love to take my little videos :-)

Well, enjoy these two latest installments via YouTube. You can see all our videos at YouTube under the Beaker's Parrot Place channel.

Here is the video of ZuZu

And here is the video of Daddy Steve feeding Levi

Elena
Beaker's Co-flock Leader
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Precocious Baby Senegal

About two weeks ago we brought in a couple of new birds to the nursery - a baby Greenwing Macaw, an Eleanora Cockatoo named Zuzu and a baby Senegal. We think about our baby birdies and the early development stages they go through akin to what human babies go through from total dependence, tracking objects, mobility, learning commands/recognizing words, etc.

Jeremy and I have both been amazed at just how alert and precocious the baby Senegal is - we both agree this is a VERY smart bird... not to mention cute. We just know that this baby will enrich some lucky families life.

I captured two short video clips of baby Senegal, aka 'Bruiser' as the operating name, compliments of Jeremy. The first clip was taken on the day Bruiser arrived at the nursery (4.5 weeks old) and the second video was taken today, 5/10 (6 weeks and a few days old). Enjoy!

Cute baby, wouldn't you agree?

Elena
Beaker's Co-flock Leader
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Is baby Greenwing a boy... or a girl? Let the credit card test decide

Yesterday, two families came to visit their babies for the first time - Lori and Greg came to meet ZuZu, their baby Eleanora Cockatoo (pictures below) and the Bianchi family came to meet their new baby - a Greeenwing Macaw (video below).

Baby Eleanora Cockatoo - ZuZu
50 days old

Now for baby GW - Many of our customers want to know the sex of their babies... and for others it doesn't matter. Jeremy heard about an 'informal' DNA sex test that has proven to be spot on for us almost 100% of the time. Check out this video of baby Greenwing - the first part is baby's arrival to the nursery followed by the family's first visit and the 'informal' DNA sex test.

If you are interested in the outcome of the test, you will need to check back for another blog posting to find out. We need to wait for enough feathers to come in (we chose feather vs blood testing) before we have the test conducted. Enjoy the video!

Elena
Beaker's Co-flock Leader
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We're singing the "Happy Trails" song again

Over the past week (ish) Jeremy and I have said "Happy Trails" to three more babies... And, we are thrilled they have found wonderful families.

We get emails all the time about how baby did this and baby did that. One of our babies, rides on a motorcycle, another uses the toilet by himself and walks down the hall to check out what mom is fixing for breakfast, and another does gardening with mommy! We just love to hear these stories.

In this posting we celebrate three SWEET babies - in order of leaving we have: Anuli (Timneh African Grey), Layla (Congo African Grey) and Starbuck (Timneh African Grey). Here they are...

Kristi Ann and Teyanna with Anuli
4/23/2010


The Carter Family and Layla
4/24/2010

Mark and Starbuck
4/28/2010

Congratulations moms and dads and kids!

Elena
Co-flock Leader
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Baby Senegal Arrives!

Today we welcomed two new arrivals to the Beaker's nursery - an Eleanora Cockatoo baby and a Senegal. I took this very short clip of the baby Senegal.... so cute, if I do say so myself. Enjoy.

Elena
Beaker's Co-Flock Leader
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Who is playing games with whom?

Can you tell who is playing games with whom? I think that the Greys are gaming Jeremy - take a look!

Too cute... I caught this very short video clip recently. Jeremy was playing Halo and the baby greys were out of their cages playing. It didn't take long for them to decide to play with Jeremy or try to play Halo themselves, you decide!

Elena
Beaker's Co-flock Leader
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It's a feeding frenzy!!!

When birds of a feather flock together... Well, just take a look at this short video that I captured yesterday evening at feeding time.

Jeremy was feeding hand-weaning pellets to the four baby greys we are hand-raising. You will hear us mentioned Anuli (Timneh), Layla (Congo) and Zura (Congo). And just today, the last baby Timneh was adopted by Mark. Congratulations Mark on your new baby.... Your next action is to give baby a name!

Elena
Beaker's Co-flock Leader
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