Motherly Love
2006/12/18 12:38 PM Filed in:
Words
Yesterday Mahana did the most
bizarre thing to me. Bizarre only
in that I've never experienced
anything like it before nor have I
seen it done to a human instead of
another (baby) bird.
I was hanging out in the aviary doing some maintenance on their computer. So I put my finger in her cage through the bars. I should say what she did next is not new. She does this a lot; whether it's my finger or the bars of the cage. I thought that perhaps she thought she was part woodpecker. What she does is peck at my finger rapidly. It's not with force or intent to hurt. In fact you feel her tongue more than her beak like she's trying to taste me and it kind of tickles. The difference this time is that I let her continue to do it for about 5 minutes or so. Normally I'll let her do this for a minute or so, giggle, then be on my way.
After a few minutes she stopped pecking and did this really weird motion like a human would do when they feel the urge to regurgitate. Sure enough she brought up some food and then continued to peck at me (much more slowly and lovingly) while smearing the food on my finger. I think she was trying to feed my finger as if it were a baby bird or something in her care.
I'll try this again but next time have the webcam ready to record. It's a really strange thing to watch (and feel).
I was hanging out in the aviary doing some maintenance on their computer. So I put my finger in her cage through the bars. I should say what she did next is not new. She does this a lot; whether it's my finger or the bars of the cage. I thought that perhaps she thought she was part woodpecker. What she does is peck at my finger rapidly. It's not with force or intent to hurt. In fact you feel her tongue more than her beak like she's trying to taste me and it kind of tickles. The difference this time is that I let her continue to do it for about 5 minutes or so. Normally I'll let her do this for a minute or so, giggle, then be on my way.
After a few minutes she stopped pecking and did this really weird motion like a human would do when they feel the urge to regurgitate. Sure enough she brought up some food and then continued to peck at me (much more slowly and lovingly) while smearing the food on my finger. I think she was trying to feed my finger as if it were a baby bird or something in her care.
I'll try this again but next time have the webcam ready to record. It's a really strange thing to watch (and feel).
Movie Time
2006/12/08 07:27 AM Filed in:
Words
Well, I got the Movie
Time section working but
it's not exactly how I wanted it.
The software I use has two methods
for posting video. The one I want
just doesn't seem to work. It
allows you to post multiple videos
just like the Freeze
Frame section. The other
one appears to only allow one
video. I guess it will do since I
only have one video, for now.
Movies
2006/12/02 12:09 PM Filed in:
Words
I'm working on adding captured
video and I do have one up but for
some reason it does not work. I'll
get to it when I can but the job
has been insane so I end up
sleeping most of the time.
Hopefully I'll figure out why it
doesn't function and post more. One
of these days I'll get around to
adding an audio stream as well.
Bird Wars IV : A New Home
2006/12/02 11:54 AM Filed in:
Picture
I finally got the cage I wanted.
The local pet store did me good and
gave me a deal for the time it took
and the mix up (the cage they got a
few weeks ago was too small). It's
identical to Beaker's cage except
it has one extra attachment on the
top so you can hang toys on it for
the birds to play with. I'm so
excited and happy with it; happier
for Mahana actually. I hated seeing
her in that itty bitty cage. White
was definitely the right choice.
Now I just need to figure out how
to arrange the camera so both birds
can be seen. Damn. I may have to
get a second iSight. I posted a few
other pictures of the new cage and
some of how the bird room now looks
in the Freeze
Frame section.
