Tuesday, August 9, 2005

For the birds

Yesterday was a day for the birds! I enjoy it when our birds are loose and take flight. They fly around then head back home.Every once in a while they fly off into the other rooms and land somewhere else. They seem to enjoy themselves so much. Some people tell me that I need to clip their wings so they do not accidently fly out the door if someone comes in. I have thought about that..... but then I watch them fly again. Chip has always been able to fly. When we got him he had no tail feathers so he was real bad with his guidance system. He could not control where he went. Peaches had her wings clipped. It took a while for her feathers to grow in. She would try to fly and drop like a rock! Finally feathers started growing in and she slowly learned flight. It was like watching a baby take their first steps. Her flights keep getting longer and more controled. She started landing where she wanted instead of where her wings gave out or after she hit the wall. Many a day I will feel the brush of a wing tip on my cheek as they fly by me. I have felt the wind they create with their wings as they fly hard to keep altitude. Then the landing. First one back always starts calling out, LOUD! It is almost like they are saying "I WON!" LOL

Yesterday Pat watched another flight. A small hawk had swooped down in the yard and caught a rabbit. Poor hing had bad hudgement..... the rabbit was too much for him and he was unable to lift it off the ground. Sorry to say the rabbit did not survive the ordeal. It became a meal for other creatures instead of being the hawk's meal.

12 comments:

  1. Celeste
    I think it's great that you don't clip the birds' wings.  How nice to feel the wind beneath their wings.  I enjoy watching birds of prey fly and always have mixed emotions when I see them hunt.  I have to remind myself about the great cirlce of life and that the prey is enabling another creature's continued existence.
    Sam

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  2. Celeste - poor little rabbit - but this as they say is the circle of life - We 0nce had a Dove land on our pigeon loft - Hubby clipped its wings so it would not fly away - but he didn't really know what he was doing - put the Dove in the loft and it happily flew off well fed and watered....Ally

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  3. I think it would be great to have birds flying around inside ,at leaszt occasionally! Hope life is a bit better. Margo

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  4. I wish I had a photo of this but several years ago a hawk flew into my house. I have a feeling he was after my five pound Yorkie and follwed her right through the open patio door. He trapped himself in a bay window, I threw a sheet over him and carried him outside. When I told people later they all accuse me of having Mimosas for breakfast!

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  5. This entry is surely, not for birds! I enjoyed reading it. We used have Nanday conures but they are destructive. We left them out one day and they tore our curtains to shreds...

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  6. They are beautiful birds! :-)

    Sandra xxxx

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  7. It sounds almost mean to clip their wings. i would enjoy just letting them fly around free. I'm always wonting to let thing out of their cage here. LOL drives hubby crazy!

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  8. my SIL also lets her birds fly free, but also lets em crap where ever!!!! yuck, I hate her house! I won't let my kids go there
    ~Julie

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  9. Beautiful birds!

    Krissy
    http://journals.aol.com/fisherkristina/SometimesIThink

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  10. I had a bird fly into my toilet once.

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  11. Reminds me of my Nana, she always let the birds fly around the house, she had a screened section of the house that they couldn't get out of, I loved it.  I miss being a kid sometimes.
    Derek

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  12. I worry about one of my cats becoming a meal for a hawk.  We had an outside cat come up missing a while back, and my vet told me a hawk might have gotten him since we live in the country.  I would have never in a million years have thought a hawk would bother a cat!!!!  I have three, but only the one is allowed outside, but ONLY because he drives me crazy meowing!!!!  He is just one of those cats you just cannot keep inside all the time.  At least if something were to happen to him, he will have died happy.  For me, it would take time to get over it since I am sooo attached to him.  I don't dare have any birds because of the cats.  Three cats and birds DO NOT mix!!!!!!  Loved seeing the photos of your cockatiels though! :-)

    http://journals.aol.com/rjet33/CountryLivingSouthernStyle

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