Parrot Re-Post 2010

I am Almost Sure, I used deodorant today!

Can you tell if I did?

Let me check one more time

OK, you are SAFE, I did put it on today. I take my pay for posing in grapes and cherries if you please.

Sorry, no photos today!

Did you HEAR ME? NO PHOTOS

Did you hear the one about the parrot?

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A man buys a pet parrot and brings him home. But the parrot starts insulting him and gets really nasty, so the man picks up the parrot and tosses him into the freezer to teach him a lesson. He hears the bird squawking for a few minutes, but all of a sudden the parrot is quiet. The man opens the freezer door, the parrot walks out, looks up at him and says, "I apologize for offending you, and I humbly ask your forgiveness."

The man says, "Well, thank you. I forgive you."
The parrot then says, "If you don't mind my asking, what did the chicken do?"

Mad Mad MadSnapper

Photo's taken by Diane, Jungle Gardens, 2008.... found in Archives. I assume this means I have always been MAD.

Diane is the person responsible for helping me get rid of my fear of birds. This was the first bird I ever got close to. Until we started hunting bird photos together, my fear was out of all bounds.

My fear came from a Rooster attack at age 2 and a Turkey gobbler attack at age 8, and a goose attack at age 12.

Jungle Gardens Flowers

Jungle Gardens is not all about parrots, flamingos and ducks. I found two never before seen flowers.

Shell Ginger, Above closed and walked a few feet and found below with a few opened

"What did the carrot say to the wheat?
Lettuce rest, I'm feeling beet."
- Shel Silverstein

I dod not know what this is, above is the bud unopened and below opened. Anyone know what it is?

"What does the letter "A" have in common with a flower?
They both have bees coming after them."
- Kim Roblin 

flamboyance of flamingos

Flamingo comes from latin word, Flamma, which means flame. Flamingo have tiny brains smaller than their eyes.

they live in flocks or colonies and can swim really well, even though they look awkard on land. they also fly and the underside of the wings is black

Flamingo's lay one egg only during nesting season, 30 days incubation time.

both parents care for the baby by regurgitating food until the little beaks become formed and hard

Info gathered from Buzzle.comhttp://www.buzzle.com/articles/interesting-facts-about-flamingos.html

IF YOU LIKE SQUIRRELS POP OVER TO FOURPAWSETC to see what was living with the Parrots

Red Fronted Macaw

tuesday of this week, I met friends at Sarasota Jungle Gardens. My first love at the Gardens are the parrots. There are many colorful Macaws, but this one was new to me and he was shy and beautiful.

The Red-fronted Macaw, Ara rubrogenys, is a parrot endemic to a small semi-desert mountainous area of Bolivia. It is highly endangered, and there may only be 150 or so birds left in the wild; it has been successfully bred in captivity, and is available, if not common, as a pet.

The Red-fronted Macaw is native to a small mountainous area of south-central Bolivia situated about 200 km west of Santa Cruz, in the department of the same name, where the climate is medium altitude semi-desert.

IF YOU LIKE PARROTS check out my archives from last August

Cute Parrots

Parrots Up Close & Personal .

Parrot Palaver

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If you are struggling with the new upload in blogger draft, it takes forever and then I have to hunt for the newest photo upload, I found a trick. Upload your photos, when load is complete, cancel. close your blog, go back and click on edit to get back to your post and when you click on the add picture, your last upload will be at the top.

Flamingo Finale

Final Flamingo post today and what could be more fun than Feeding Flamingos

these children are feeding them food that is provided by putting a quarter in a bubble gum machine full of what looks like rabbit food. What ever it is, the love it, the flamingos and the children.

And speaking of food, the flamingo also has very distinctive eating habits. The bill is held upside down in the water. The flamingo feeds by sucking water and mud in at the front of its bill and then pumping it out again at the sides. Here, briny plates called lamellae act like tiny filters, trapping shrimp and other small water creatures for the flamingo to eat.

when feeding the flamingos at Jungle Gardens, we must be careful, they get in a feeding frenzy and walk on our toes, and have been known to search the body for food or anything they can reach. they think everyone has food hidden on them. What a lark they are.

At the San Diego Zoo and the Wild Animal Park, the flamingos are fed a special pellet diet that is made for flamingos. This food has all the nutrients the flamingos need, and even a pigment that helps keep their beautiful color. And to allow the flamingos to eat in their normal way (taking in water and then pumping it back out), a water source just for feeding is near their food so they can get a beak full of water and then food—just like they would in the wild.

By swinging their upside-down heads from side to side or swishing water with their fat tongues, flamingos siphon the lake water through their filters to trap algae. They can filter as many as 20 beak full of algae-rich water in a single second.

This unique feeding system gives flamingos a certain security: while they must watch out for predators like jackals or eagles, they compete with no other animals for food.

Q: Why does a flamingo stand on one leg?

A: Because if he lifted that leg off the ground he would fall down !

Flamingo Flocks, Faces & Feet

Today's Post is the First of Four posts in which we will

Follow the Fascinating Flamingo and Find Flamingo Facts For Fun.

Flamingos have a behavior that is as hard to explain as it is fun to watch: they dance. Posturing and signaling with their wings, bowing and bending their necks, running back and forth as a group, and then suddenly taking flight to wheel around the edges of the lake -- a crowd of dancing flamingos is one of the strangest, most breathtaking sights in the natural world.

Is it a mating ritual? Are the birds burning up excess energy? Or do they do it simply for fun? No one is really sure. I can vouch for the noise part of the flock of flamingo's. They are LOUD very Loud.

these flocks live in Jungle Gardens in Sarasota FL.

Flamingos live in groups called colonies. They won’t nest unless there are other flamingos around.

The Flamingo, a large wading bird, lives in big, shallow lakes, lagoons, mangrove swamps, tidal flats, and on sandy islands above the low tide mark

Adult flamingos range from 3.3 to 4.6 feet tall and weigh 3.3 to 9 pounds depending on their species. Wingspans range from 3.3 to 5 feet. There are 6 species of flamingo.

Flamingos live an average of 20 to 30 years.

Males and females look alike.

The webbing between their toes helps them stand in soft mud and when swimming when the water is deeper than wading depth.

Parrots, Up Close & Personal

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One parrot or two? CLICK on the photo to find out.

Parrots are most striking for their range of brilliant colors, which includes shades of green, red, pink, yellow, blue, purple, black and white. In some parrot species, male and female birds have the same coloring. In others, the female is the plainest of the pair. This has two advantages:· it is the male who attracts the female to mate · if the female is less obvious to predators, she has a better chance of surviving to breed and rear her young successfully

It is estimated in the year 2000 there were 60 million birds in 6.13 million homes

Parrots are hole nesters, they build their nest in holes in trees and rock cavities and ground tunnels and even in termite mounds

Some of the macaw species are popularly known for their impressive size. The largest parrot in length and wingspan is the above Hyacinth Macaw

this African Gray is popular as a pet or companion parrot, because of its ability to imitate speech. This parrot is the most talkative one at Jungle Gardens. He sounds just like a person and talks non-stop most of the time.

CUTE PARROTS ON SITE TOMORROW........................

Parrot Palaver

I almost skipped the post today, but I checked out Paddle Tales and found a saying on there that I am going to memorize. It inspired me to keep trying with my photography.

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
~Henry Van Dyke
Thanks Peggy for the inspiration!


I Love Parrots! I purchase a season pass each year to Jungle Gardens, solely for the purpose of photographing parrots. to see my Happy Face, click on picture to enlarge details

Fact 1: There are 328 species of Parrots







Amazon Parrot, he is very small, about 8 inches.

Fact 2: Parrots can fly up to 400 miles a day in the Jungle and there loud noise can be heard up to a mile away.

This is a Hyacinth Macaw






Fact 3: Large Parrots such as these Macaws live more than 75 years. small ones live 10 to 15 years

Military Macaws are the best known.

Fact 4: Most parrots have a keen sense of smell. It's believed that they exude an aroma to attract a mate.

On the Light Side of parrots!

A postal carrier is working on a new beat. He comes to a garden gate marked BEWARE OF THE PARROT! He looks down the garden and, sure enough, there's a parrot sitting on its perch. He has a little chuckle to himself at the sign and the parrot there on its perch. The mailman opens the gate and walks into the garden. He gets as far as the parrot's perch, when suddenly, it calls out: "REX, ATTACK!"