The Louisiana Aviculture Society meets in New Orleans once a month. They have solicited suggestions for speakers during the year. I was driving around today and thought that, with over half the membership of the organization being pet bird owners as opposed to breeders, it might be nice to have a speaker that isn't an expert on the proper temperature of the cloaca for conception. (Not that the topic is inappropriate once in a while.)

We have two popular actors that love parrots living in New Orleans - Harry Anderson (Night Court) and Delta Burke (Designing Women). I did some sleuthing and found a number that I think is Harry's home phone or cell phone (or maybe his maid's brother's phone). With nothing to lose, I left a message on his (or somebody's) answering machine.

I think that he's a pretty nice guy. It would be nice for him to visit the club and share stories about how he got into parrots and any tales he could relate. He bought at least two of his parrots locally which means the breeders of his birds will most probably be in attendance. I'm just not sure he can handle the culture shock of sitting down with regular people, in a meeting room above a feed and garder center and spending a quiet Sunday afternoon.

Anyway, we may not get Harry or Delta but it made for an interesting thought this afternoon...Craig
- posted by J-Birds @ 8:02 PM |