Mike Bowles & Loretta Erickson

Surprise! Surprise!

Aug 27, 2007

Babies, babies, everywhere babies!!  We are now in full swing of fledgling season and the little ones are doing their very best to learn how to be a full-fledged parrot from learning to land on the wires (most have a tough time at first) to their ever so interesting attempts at the proper...

Tragedy & joy

Jun 27, 2007

It has been an unusually quiet "beginning of summer" in our little section of Southern California with only the begging sounds of two fledglings heard so far.  No doubt that will change in the upcoming weeks!

Along with the wonder and excitement of this time of year—the fledglings taking their...

Youngin’s

May 11, 2007

From the conures to the amazons, what a fun time of year this is!  Last years young are experiencing their first season without the over-sight of the elder members of the flocks and the older juveniles are to be looked up to.  While mated pairs are off nesting, the youngin’s are having a blast...

Banded

Nov 08, 2006

It has been our experience that escaped companion parrots, in general, just don’t have much of a chance of making it out there.  We’ve seen this first hand by the lack of new birds/species among our local flock and we believe this to be representative of most of the flocks in California.  After...