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Saturday, January 21, 2006
Full Moon
Last Friday night we arrived home after a family visit around midnight. We wanted to check on the outside aviary so we armed ourselves with headlights and flashlights and walked over. Everything was fine until we heard "What cha doin" coming from the woods about 100 feet away. Shining our lights in that direction we were panicked to see TJ, our Umbrella Cockatoo, perched on a limb about fifteen feet off of the ground amidst the fallen trees on our property.
There he was shining like the full moon and talking non-stop. We tried to climb up a fallen trunk but just as we got within reach he flew back toward the aviary and landed on a wooden play gym. With Debra shining a light on me so TJ could see who was approaching we were able to climb up and offer a hand. He stepped up and buried his face in my neck. Seems he didn't like his adventure once he managed to dislodge the nestbox from his temporary cage.
We had moved him to a new cage and put Tanya, our new female, in the Cockatoo cage to establish her nest and allow them to get to know each other before we put them together. With the temporary cage out of commission, I opened the door to Tanya's cage, pronounced them "man and wife", and tossed TJ inside.
The next morning we walked up to the cage to see two heads, side by side, peeking out of the nest box door.
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