Indefinite Hiatus

Every now and then you also need to do a bit of gymnastics...

Bird banding is much more fun for the banders than for the birds lol

No better feeling in the world than when your pet comes to hang out with you 💙

these 3 are fully feathered and so big that mom no longer lets them sit under her. but dad still does

Cute baby birds

Oh my goodness, the woodpecker 😆 (other two are Oriole and female Grosbeak)

Just some beautiful pigeons I saw in the Canary Islands 💙

It's very obnoxious!

(she's standing behind the laptop, preening over it and pecking at the screen as I play)

And she'll sit on me outside as well. She just likes to visit inside now, since she was hand raised, which was only possible because I knew for 100% from the second she hatched that she was a hen. If she'd been a boy I would never have hand raised her because hand raised peacocks turn ultra-aggressive at maturity and have hurt a good number of people. I breed and raise them and have for well over a decade, nearly two, so I know what I was doing :)

I have never related to an animal more in my fucking life. 

National Geographic photo contest 2011