My owner and his wife have recently returned from a great migration. (And the very fact that you have continued to receive blogs while they’ve been away proves that I really am a parrot genius who writes his own material!) Being the strange humans that they are, they decided to swop the high temperatures of our hottest Summer on record for the freezing cold climes of the high Arctic. Yes, they went to Greenland for two weeks and visited some of the tiny communities that live

My owner spends a great many hours tending to his plants and growing lots of new crops every year. The most labour intensive are always the peas. He has to sow them indoors, or else the garden mice will eat up all the seed before it germinates. And so, he painstakingly sows 500 pea seeds into individual cells and grows them on until they are ready to be planted out. As this variety grows to more than 6’, he has to erect big frames with jute netting to keep the crop happy. The

Soon after moving into our current home, my owner put up ten sparrow terrace nest boxes on the side of our house. It was all because he’d seen a few sparrows in the neighbourhood and thought that they could do with a little bit of help. And within a couple of weeks, the sparrows had moved in. First, it was a couple of pairs, and before he knew it, there were a dozen pairs all making use of his upmarket accommodation. There was one drawback though. My owner hates climbing up l

There’s an old human saying that ‘opposites attract,’ and I’ve seen it for myself when humans with very different personality traits pair up together on the same perch. And I suppose this also applies to humans and parrots, because we’re not exactly of the same ilk. I therefore treat my human family as ‘honorary parrots,’ and in return, they have to adjust their existence to all of the things that make me, -well, -me! So where do I begin with all of this? Well, how about the