Birds need a bath or shower. No getting around it. Mine like showers but they are, shall we say, “less than animated” when they are taking a shower. Normally you see videos of birds and they’re all very loud and rambunctious. Such as these two here: Mine? Not so much as you will see here. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Patricia Sund’
Shower Day For my Greys
Posted in Patricia Sund, Uncategorized, tagged Bird Blogs, Bird Talk Writer, blogging about parrots, Parrot Blog, Parrot Blogs, Parrot Nation, Patricia Sund, showers for birds, Showers for Parrots on August 22, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Chop. Shot By Shot
Posted in Posts About the "Chop" Recipe, Uncategorized, tagged Patricia Sund, African Greys, African Grey, blogging about parrots, preparing food for birds, feeding birds, "Chop" Recipe, bird food, Parrot Blogs, Parrot Chop, Bird Blogs, Parrot Blog, Chop for Parrots on August 8, 2010 | 52 Comments »
My friend Lisa and I shot a video demonstration of how to make “Chop.” Many of my “Bleaders,” (Blog Readers) wanted more detail on the process, so here you go! I hope you get a kick out of it and perhaps will try this way of feeding your birds. Thanks Lisa, and thanks to all [...]
Vet Appointment With Sam
Posted in People in Aviculture, Uncategorized, tagged Avian Vet Visit, Bird Blogs, Bird Talk Writer, blogging about parrots, milk thistle seed, Parker the Grey, Parrot Blog, Parrot Nation, Patricia Sund, Sam Backos on August 6, 2010 | 5 Comments »
This is Sam. Sam is also known as Dr. Sam Backos, Avian Vet. Sam is a really, really good Avian Vet. He knows it, and I know it but I try not to tell him for fear he’ll hike his prices! Seriously he really does a good job with my flock. I adore him and [...]
Organizing My Life
Posted in Writing, essays and articles, tagged Patricia Sund, Parrot Nation, blogging about parrots, Parrot Blogs, Bird Blogs, Parrot Blog on July 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It started with my laptop. I had over 5000 photos in my laptop and it needed some weeding out. They were all over the place and I had to figure out how to categorize them and put them in some order. I also had to get rid of some because they were just stupid or [...]
Searching For the Big Idea
Posted in Writing, essays and articles, tagged Bird Talk Writer, Patricia Sund, Parrot Nation, blogging about parrots, Parrot Blogs, Parrot Blog, innovation, thinking outside the box on July 17, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I went to a meeting on Thursday for work. I’m on a “Leadership Team” for my job. Once a month we have a meeting where we attempt to solve problems, innovate new ideas and try to come up with “the better mousetrap” by “thinking outside of the box.” You know, all of the usual stuff [...]
Catching a Case of Crabs at “Catfish Dewey’s”
Posted in Patricia Sund, Reviews, Uncategorized, tagged Patricia Sund, Parrot Nation, Parrot Blogs, Parrot Blog, Catfish Dewey's, All You Can Eat Crab Legs Fort Lauderdale on July 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Yes, this is a blog primarily about birds. And I write about birds here a lot. But fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly and every once in a while, I need to eat crab. Lots of crab! That’s why this past Sunday, July 4th, I invited my friends Nan, Lisa, Steve and Randy to join [...]
How Clean is “Clean?”
Posted in People in Aviculture, Writing, essays and articles, tagged Bird Talk Writer, parrots, Patricia Sund, taking care of parrots, Parrot Nation, blogging about parrots, working at a zoo, Parrot Blogs, Bird Blogs, Parrot Blog, information about parrots, cleaning bird cages on July 4, 2010 | 7 Comments »
I’m pretty good about cleaning up after my Greys. I have a slate stone floor so it sweeps and vacuums up fairly easily. Once I get after it with a mop and some really hot water, it looks as good as new. I use newspaper as a substrate on top of the grates, so those [...]
Press Release For Avian Encounters Trilogy Video Premiere
Posted in Events, tagged Bird Talk Writer, parrots, Patricia Sund, Parrot Nation, Christina Giordano, Bird Blogs, Parrot Blog, oil spill relief, Save Our Seabirds, Avian Encounters Video Premiere, Marco Island, Florida, Naples on June 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
VIDEO PREMIERE FUNDRAISER FOR “SAVE OUR SEABIRDS” How the producer of the world’s first social media collaborative video plans to help save seabirds from the oil spill. MARCO ISLAND, FLORIDA USA JUNE 27, 2010 The massive oil spill in the Gulf is steadily creeping toward the West Coast of Florida and threatening coastal wildlife. Christina [...]
Slightly Sidetracked by Life
Posted in Patricia Sund, Uncategorized, tagged Bird Talk Writer, Patricia Sund, Parrot Nation, blogging about parrots, Flight Attendant Life, Bird Blogs, inflight delivery of baby, Flight Attendant, having a baby inflight, CBS News Miami on June 21, 2010 | 7 Comments »
As you might have learned from my last post, I was working a flight from Haiti to Fort Lauderdale when a 22 year-old woman decided to give birth to a baby on board the aircraft. Well! While we are trained for such a possibility, it doesn’t happen very often. But it happened to me last [...]


