My Sat morning - "conure stew" for breakfast?

[Valo's Moirana]

I'm posting this mainly to give people an idea that, while I love my birds, I - like probably most of us - have my days where I'd prefer to roll the cages out the door with a "For free" sign on them.

Valo told me at 6:30am to "come here" - continuously for 30min. Well, I finally gave up and woke up the boys. Made my coffee and their breakfast (veggie omelet - spoiled brats).
Cleaned up a little, tried to work a little.... then Valo started his "newest thing" He flies to everything that's hanging on the wall AC unit, picture frames, closed doors... and the AC unit is really something he shouldn't be climbing around on. After picking him up more than 10 times, I got sick of it... hammer, nails and a decorative fabric later, the problem was fixed.
Back to work - 10min later... Valo starts screaming. He doesn't scream a lot, but when he does, Nino has to chime in and then the circus starts.... lots of screaming for about 45min

.... with a time out for valo in the covered cage... helped for about 10min... back to screaming.
Whenever Valo's screaming, I don't pay attention to him - so he took it out by chasing Nino around. Poor guy. When Valo attacked him full speed and got hold of his tail feathers (the 2 boys were flying through the room, Valo latched onto Nino's tail), I've had it... Valo went back to a covered cage, and after 5min he got showered. He loves water so it's not really a punishment for him, but I found that it's incredibly effective in calming him down when he's so hyper.

So, who wants to come for conure stew?

PS: I've lived with Valo for 2 yrs, and I know by now what I need to do to calm him down. I'm also getting the handle on Nino - he's an older, adopted bird and not handleable.

Guess I'm trying to express that everybody has days where the birds drive us up the walls.... but with patience, attention, and some tolerance it's workable.

Happy Saturday!

[Bellco]

I feel your pain on that one my new gcc has not settled in yet so any noise makes her scream. I try to let my blue crown sleep in so he gets some time on his own to play in his cage without the constant where are you calls plus last night he stayed up late so i figured a nice long sleep for him. Well I was apparently wrong. He woke up at 8 with the gcc and they wanted to make noise for most of the morning. once they settled down the tiels wanted to make noise which sets off the gcc who in turns sets off the blue crown again.
I also have found with my blue crown when he gets too worked up a nice spray down calms him down. Redirects his attention to something more productive and by the time he is done preening he forgot what he was so mad about.

[DarwinTheSun]

Holy cow, 6:30! my sun woke up this morning at 10 am and patiently waited for us to get up at 10:30.
I couldn't handle a morning bird. Luckily my bird hates mornings as much as we do.

[Bellco]

oh your so lucky to have a bird that doesnt like mornings! Though sometimes I get away with them sleeping in later since washington is so dark!

[macawlover]

Yep, I have those days, too! A couple days ago at 7 am, Oliver started staring at me from his cage, which is less than a foot away from my pillow. That in itself was enough to make me get up! I hate it when people just stare at you, you know?
And if Ollie isn't waking me up by 7, Oscar is! He likes to yell "Mommy! I see you!" and if I don't open the cages up, he'll start tearing the papers on the bottom of his cage because he knows it annoys me. :P

[Ashling]

Yesterday I woke up at 8am to a chirping, chattering lorikeet. It drove me crazy, as I love sleep-ins on a saturday. I put up with being in a half-sleep until 11 when I decided to grab her and get her to fall asleep with me. She snuggled under and we ended up sleeping till 1 in the afternoon, because she had kept me up all morning!

[red192]

Add an IRN on the grill and we can have a bbq! LOL

[cashmerekiddy]

Goodness - look that innocent expression on the little gcc!!! I agree that 6.30 is a tad early. My fella doesn't surface till at least 10 and still looks a little bleary eyed till after his breakfast.

[greencinacheeks]

Tyreal just started to fly to everything on the walls too!!!! so i am with you on that one...haha

10 oclock!!! lucky!!! Tyreal gets up at 645-700 and feels he must wake me up as well.

~N

[rockybird]

I love the pic of the gcc! What a little munchkin!

My caique is an early riser too. His night cage is covered but still he is calling for me at around 630-8 on weekends. I have been trying to keep him up later, which works sometimes. My conure sleeps in a cage next to the bed. Even when I sleep in, he will very quietly and patiently wait for me to get up. He used to be a little monster. He would wake me up in the middle of the night in the pitch dark, rolling around his cage wrestling with his toys! He never would have survived in the wild! He is not a morning bird either. When I get up at 5 in the summer to go road biking he REFUSES to come out of his night cage. He wont come out until I come home later in the morning.