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Line Up and Wait
I can stull hardly see my keyboard! ROFL!
Some of you (very few) may know I'm "nestmates" (this bird is SO very much NOT a "pet") with a human imprinted house sparrow. A species once regarded by me a Public Enemy No. 1.
Well, all that aside (I know better now), this particular member of Passer domesticus just happens to be my very best friend and something that brings a lot of joy and laughter to my life. He is a young male (he'll be a year old this June) not yet of breeding age (next year he'll think more about that) but he's still feeling his first hormonal instincts.
My Birdie's nest-building attempts have raided supplies from my broom collection and House Witch. Unfortunately Birdie's chosen site has been on top of the vertical blinds in my living room. Since I can't have that, with landlords coming over and all (who think my birds live in cages) I take the haphazard collections away and toss them. Birdie manages to retrieve them from the garbage (unless I take it out right away) and put them back. Sometimes he drops stuff on my desk or on the floor.
SO--this morning we're fooling around (I should be leaving for work), and I had one of the long straws he dropped (about 18 inches or so). He snatches one end, I hang on to the other. When he starts to fly off--it is was like having him on a leash or having one of those toy airplanes on a string (or forgetting to untie one of your tiedowns)--he refused to let go and so did I, and he flew around in circles for almost an entire minute before letting go--and trying AGAIN!
It was so funny I had to share. Now I must wipe my eyes and go to work.
Yes, I did give him the straw. He has added it to his collection on top of the vertical blinds. Tonight I'll take it all down again.
Hey, at least it keeps him out of trouble.
Still laughing... !
BTW, you can see a bigger pic of my bird (from February) posing for the camera (he's a ham) here:
http://gra.midco.net/terzap/images/birdie26feb.jpg
and now I am really late for work, so off I go. I just had to share a sort of flying-related giggle.
terry
Some of you (very few) may know I'm "nestmates" (this bird is SO very much NOT a "pet") with a human imprinted house sparrow. A species once regarded by me a Public Enemy No. 1.
Well, all that aside (I know better now), this particular member of Passer domesticus just happens to be my very best friend and something that brings a lot of joy and laughter to my life. He is a young male (he'll be a year old this June) not yet of breeding age (next year he'll think more about that) but he's still feeling his first hormonal instincts.
My Birdie's nest-building attempts have raided supplies from my broom collection and House Witch. Unfortunately Birdie's chosen site has been on top of the vertical blinds in my living room. Since I can't have that, with landlords coming over and all (who think my birds live in cages) I take the haphazard collections away and toss them. Birdie manages to retrieve them from the garbage (unless I take it out right away) and put them back. Sometimes he drops stuff on my desk or on the floor.
SO--this morning we're fooling around (I should be leaving for work), and I had one of the long straws he dropped (about 18 inches or so). He snatches one end, I hang on to the other. When he starts to fly off--it is was like having him on a leash or having one of those toy airplanes on a string (or forgetting to untie one of your tiedowns)--he refused to let go and so did I, and he flew around in circles for almost an entire minute before letting go--and trying AGAIN!
It was so funny I had to share. Now I must wipe my eyes and go to work.
Yes, I did give him the straw. He has added it to his collection on top of the vertical blinds. Tonight I'll take it all down again.
Hey, at least it keeps him out of trouble.
Still laughing... !
BTW, you can see a bigger pic of my bird (from February) posing for the camera (he's a ham) here:
http://gra.midco.net/terzap/images/birdie26feb.jpg
and now I am really late for work, so off I go. I just had to share a sort of flying-related giggle.
terry
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