January can feel like a month that drags. And humans don’t seem to like it at all, which is probably why they call one of their days...

Parrots are well known for being great talkers. Yes, we like to learn human speech, and some of us are really good at it. African Grey...

Last week, I wrote about how hard it is for parrots to understand the dual meanings of certain human words. And as if that wasn’t bad...

Credit: Helen Blewitt Everything started off as normal today. I woke up, had a good stretch, ate some breakfast, and then performed my...

Last week’s chicken blog taught me an important lesson. Yes, I’ve been a hypocrite, but I’ve also been vain. All too often, I’ve puffed...

There’s a very hard frost in the garden today. And it means that the birds outside are twice as hungry, and all fluffed up against the...

We’re now a week past Christmas Day, and I hope you all had a wonderful time. I certainly did! A couple of my regular blog readers sent...

So how do you feel about today? It’s Christmastime, and we parrots absolutely love it! We love all the sparkly lights, especially when we...

Sometimes, something comes along in life which can only be described as a trial or a tribulation. Something that we are forced to deal...

My owner has to change my water pot every single day because I always make a mess in it. I like to put banana chips and nuts into my...

We parrots love a good bedtime story. A story helps us to settle down on our perches before we go to sleep. And one of my absolute...

Last week, my owner had to make a journey from Penzance in Cornwall to the edge of Exmoor in Devon. It was the day after some heavy snow,...

November! Urgh. Definitely not the favourite month for parrots living in the northern hemisphere. And that’s because it’s getting dark....

We now have three chickens out in the garden. Yes, THREE free-range chickens which in my humble opinion is three too many. They’re pretty...

Humans often ask me what I like to eat each day. Well, I have a very varied diet. I like seeds and nuts and berries and chillies. I’m...

I’m now some 24 years old, which means I’m a middle-aged parrot. So perhaps I should start to write my memoirs. A kind of potted history...

Have you noticed how parrots tend to be optimists and humans are often pessimists? I’ve commented in the past about how ‘human’ news is...

Photo: Trudy Herniman, Queen’s Nympton One night last week, I was gently rocking on my perch, quietly listening to the snores and...

I used to think that goats were hairy animals with big horns and mischievous personalities. And then I discovered that in human language,...

My owner’s wife has had successful surgery on her benign brain tumour and has now returned home to the flock. She still has a very sore...