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OT - You had to be here....
I've recovered enough to type this, I think, and the noise has died down
a little, but they're still pretty spooked..... I have two parrots, a Yellow Nape Amazon named "Zeke" and a Blue and Gold Macaw I raised from a 6-day-old chick named "Roger-Roger" (he picked the name up listening to the 2-meter ham repeater long ago). They're both pretty vocal during periods of light, squawking at the squirrels climbing down the oak tree next to their window, etc., warning of the "squirrel invasion" that happens every morning, right after I put out the old food out of their cages for the wild animals in the neighborhood who love it. It's a beautiful day in Charleston, a beautiful week. Global Warming? It's 73 on the river at 4PM and I've had the place opened up since I got home at noon. It's going to be 77F Wednesday! Global Warming? BRING IT ON!... So, I'm sitting here sipping a Boddington's minding my own business and this little sparrow hops up from the steps to the door sill and looks inside. I froze to see what he would do if left to his own curiosity. He hopped inside and started hopping around me. The sounds of his little claws clicking on the tile were the only sounds outside the fans in the computers. He must have smelled BIRD SEED coming from the parrot room so off he FLEW through the house to located it. The very instant he flew into the parrot room, all hell broke loose! The Macaw has the capability of sounding like one of those public warning horns at a Nuclear Power Plant, if he's a mind to. The warning horn must have been heard for blocks! It was deafening! The Yellow Nape was making this awful growling sound like a lion startled mixed in with his own warning calls to the Amazon flock. If a bomb went off I wouldn't have heard it. Of course, this terrified the poor little sparrow into flight, its best defense, but he/she was too terrified to remember where he/she came in so the sparrow made it worse by flying around the parrot room a few laps before ducking out the door into the computer room and spying the open door with the sun pouring in....making a very hasty exit. The parrot alarms are self-resetting, but only after the adrenaline rush is over. I was laughing so hard my stomach has a cramp. The warning horns eventually died down into several run throughs of their entire English vocabulary of funny words and phrases mixed with learned cursing I've caused over the years when my "noise limit" has been exceeded trying to shut them up. They're still talking to each other and the Macaw keeps saying, "Way, Way Too Much NOISE!", over and over. Zeke keeps repeating "NOW WHAT?!" in a loud voice. They are no longer bored and falling asleep on one foot for their afternoon nap.....There won't be any nap today....(c;] ...................you had to be here........(c;] |