The Nite nite routine-ya gotta love it !!

Poppie My 8 yr. old Blue fronted Amazon is the sweetest and most talkative of all my birds.

Her Nite time routine is that she like to sit in chair with me and watch TV
play and groom my hair and have little nibbles on my hand or insist on holding one finger of mine with her foot, and enjoys a good head rub till about 9:30- 10pm, then it's nite-nite time.

I'll turn to her and say " ok ready for nite nite ??"... She'll say " yep"...Say nite nite mama ( to my wife) which she says " nite- Nite- see morning"..
My wife says... Nite nite, see ya in the morning.

Poppie turns to me and say in a matter of fact way..." yum yum too" ( this means she wants to nibble a bit before she's ready for bed.) I'll say "ok, but for a minute ok?? And she says ...Ok yum yum, hurry up up, come on come on"

After a bit of munching and a drink, I go in her room and say, "Ok give dad a kiss nite nite... " She comes down off cage top and down my arm leans forward and places beak on my lips making a kissing sound. Then back up my arm to her cage where she perches outside her cage on the rope ring above her cage, she then says " nite nite- love you making kissing sounds" and I shut lite off a close door to her room with just a small nite lite on.

She's the only one I never have to put in cage at nite. Her cage door has never been closed in past several months. She has total freedom. She likes it that way. In morning I open door to room let others out and she's all bright eyed and bushy tailed saying " Hi guys, up up, come on come on, breakfast breakfast yum yum" Meaning she's ready for her breakfast.

She's adorable and the sweetest natured parrot I've come acrossed in a long time.

Anyone want to share their nite time ritual with their birds with us?

Aww, that's so sweet!!! Loved that!
My fids are totally free as well, but I sometimes have to cage my lovebird because she is too hyper and goes into mischief, and the budgies to stop annoying my gcc Parry. Parry is completely cage free bird and has a curtained corner for him to sleep and chill. Usually they are all out and playing together. Before sleep I usually dim the lights, and they gradually slow down and go to eat something. Then they just start retiring to their cages - first the tiel, then Coco, my lovie, and finally the budgies... They want to stay with Parry, but the sleepiness takes over. After I cover all the cages Parry sits with me for a little while and we cuddle, and then I ask him - 'isn't it time to sleep for a baby'? He flies over to his corner and goes behind his curtain... If I come in at night or my hubby starts playing guitar he would say "Nelzya!" many times, which means "don't do that", "not allowed" in Russian.

Oh thanks for sharing! That's such a sweet story. She is so smart! I love parrots. She sounds like she really loves you!

my orange winged amazon Marley gets really stroppy when me and my wife get ready for bed.. gives up all types of looks and if we talk to him he turns his back to up LOL its quite cute its like a child not wanting to go to bed

Awesome, thanks for sharing!

We don't have any "performance", I just put their lights out and say goodnight. Sometimes my galah will talk to me when I go into the bathroom so we get a lot of "hello" "hello, darling, aren't you sleeping?" back and forth.

Five minutes before it's actually time for bed, Tusk reminds me...

"Time for bed!"

They all have their little sleeping spots. Tusk and Lila sleep on top of the big playstand at one end. Sweepea wraps herself up in her big toy, and literally sleeps inside the thing. Sally sleeps in the window on her table stand. Maggie sleeps on the corner of her cage...

And it's all set in motion by Tusk...

I go around and give them each a goodnight head scratch. (Except Lila.) Then I turn out the lights.

Tusk then tells me "Goodnight."

Awesome stories! Charlie's vocabulary isn't that big yet, but you can set your watch by him. 7:30 on the dot he will start acting up, making short whistle noises and if I don't act soon enough, fly down to the ground and making his displeasure very clear. Milo gets on top of his dolls head and that is where he sleeps at night, been doing that for five years, Lol. Needless to say the doll is not in the best condition anymore, but a new one just isn't acceptable. [emoji3] His sleeping hut has been totally ignored for the past five years, lol.

Birdman666 said:

Tusk reminds me...

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Tusk can tell time? I can't get over how smart some birds are. I wonder what he'd do if you didn't put everyone to bed? Round them all up and turn out the lights?

I don't know how he knows, but he's generally accurate to within 5 minutes...

Unless he is tired. Then he tries to trick me into putting them to bed early...

miloslave said:

Awesome stories! Charlie's vocabulary isn't that big yet, but you can set your watch by him. 7:30 on the dot he will start acting up, making short whistle noises and if I don't act soon enough, fly down to the ground and making his displeasure very clear. Milo gets on top of his dolls head and that is where he sleeps at night, been doing that for five years, Lol. Needless to say the doll is not in the best condition anymore, but a new one just isn't acceptable. [emoji3] His sleeping hut has been totally ignored for the past five years, lol.

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Ha ha ha...that's funny...My senni has this stuffed bunny it sits next to...take away it's bunny ( for washing) and you have a very mad Senni on your hands. Never pecks at it, just likes to sit next to it, a security blanket I presume....quite hilarious.

veimar said:

Aww, that's so sweet!!! Loved that!
My fids are totally free as well, but I sometimes have to cage my lovebird because she is too hyper and goes into mischief, and the budgies to stop annoying my gcc Parry. Parry is completely cage free bird and has a curtained corner for him to sleep and chill. Usually they are all out and playing together. Before sleep I usually dim the lights, and they gradually slow down and go to eat something. Then they just start retiring to their cages - first the tiel, then Coco, my lovie, and finally the budgies... They want to stay with Parry, but the sleepiness takes over. After I cover all the cages Parry sits with me for a little while and we cuddle, and then I ask him - 'isn't it time to sleep for a baby'? He flies over to his corner and goes behind his curtain... If I come in at night or my hubby starts playing guitar he would say "Nelzya!" many times, which means "don't do that", "not allowed" in Russian.

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I'm really amused and fascinated by the way a parrot can talk different languages and understand the meaning of it. Poppie my Amazon sings a Spanish song...My wife and I do not know hardly any Spanish, and guess the previous owner taught her that....quite amusing.
Poppie is a remarkable Amazon, I've seen a 1000 or more Amazons, but none with a vocabulary like hers. Much was taught by her previous owner, and much by us.
Like if we go outside to gazebo she'll say..where we going? I'll say to gazebo, she'll say. I really like that....
or looks out the window and say's " it's cold" looking at the snow...Eating her favorite treat she'll say...It's really good"....or yell at the dogs, "Riely, shut up stop it..go lay down" ....LOL...That's just the tip of the ice berg in her communication.

Ann333 said:

Oh thanks for sharing! That's such a sweet story. She is so smart! I love parrots. She sounds like she really loves you!

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She's a lovely bird....there not enough money in the world to make me give her up...She's that precious.

Birdman666 said:

Five minutes before it's actually time for bed, Tusk reminds me...

"Time for bed!"

They all have their little sleeping spots. Tusk and Lila sleep on top of the big playstand at one end. Sweepea wraps herself up in her big toy, and literally sleeps inside the thing. Sally sleeps in the window on her table stand. Maggie sleeps on the corner of her cage...

And it's all set in motion by Tusk...

I go around and give them each a goodnight head scratch. (Except Lila.) Then I turn out the lights.

Tusk then tells me "Goodnight."

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Gotta love um huh? By the way like that Macaw, love the red colors. Always wanted one.

strudel said:

Birdman666 said:

Tusk reminds me...

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Tusk can tell time? I can't get over how smart some birds are. I wonder what he'd do if you didn't put everyone to bed? Round them all up and turn out the lights?

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Mine would all be sleeping around me on the couch if I didn't round them up.

I love your nite nite routine. I say good night several times to Buddy and he makes happy sounds at me. Then Venus tries to attack the cover as I'm putting it on her cage. I say good night to her too but she's too busy guarding her cage from the cover lol.

My quaker gets a bed time story and really this is how we found out she could talk as she will actually READ ALONG with the (always the same) book at points.

Telling time, reading books, I'm starting to feel an inferiority complex about my birds.

flyingron said:

My quaker gets a bed time story and really this is how we found out she could talk as she will actually READ ALONG with the (always the same) book at points.

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That's a good idea....a friend of mine once suggested video/audio books to enhance their vocabulary.

She seems to have more vocabulary than we notice. She only talks when she desperately wants our attention. She bit me so I put her in the cage and left the room. Ten minutes later I hear her going "Good Bird...Good Bacca"