Its a girl!
I got the DNA test results! It's a girl!
Picture taken yesterday during a car ride. I cropped this image down so you cant see him, but the little one is riding on a boy's chest.
The boy in question happens to be the feeder's son, who is ill (brain tumor) at the moment. He's taken a real shining to my little feathered baby as it goes to and fro with them to the doctors office 2 hours away. I made the offer that he can have her if they wish, but they said they have so many birds already it wouldn't be a good idea. So she's coming home with me in the end.
I kinda feel like a heartless wench for taking her away from him, but at the same time the selfish brat inside me is relieved they declined. She'll be spoiled rotten after she comes home, and I've made the commitment to myself, I will
have to take her down to visit once in a while if I can, maybe in the hospital if they'll let me, and send lots of pictures of her. I want the boy to know I didn't take her for status, she's going to a good home, she's loved, and comfortable. The fact she rides in cars so well will make this ten times easier and saves me a lot of grief.
I am worried she's going to favor men now though.
Also not pictured: HUGE DOG. HUGE. FLUFFY. DOG. Very refreshing sight for me to see the little girl perched comfortably on someone so close to a dog. He's using the dog as a pillow more or less.
Now for the naming portion of this adventure to resume:
1. CHASCA - technically pronounced CH-aah-ssska. Chasca is the Incan goddess of flowers, dawn, and twilight. She's known to be the protector of maidens and a benevolent deity. She's also the planet Venus. Inca directly resided in the lands Hahns Macaw call home, and even bred them.
2. ZYANYA - Zee-an-ya is a Zapotec name meaning "Forever" or "Always". Also a main character in a book called Aztec, hilariously. Zapotecs weren't in the exact proximity of Hahn's Macaws, but I still like the name.
3. XOCHITL - looks a lot more complicated than it is. It's roughly pronounced "Sho-chee" and means flower in Aztec.
4. IXCHEL - This is harder than it looks to pronounce. X is a "sh" sound and ch is like in "cherry" so that makes this EE-sh-ch-el. An alternate spelling make this make more sense with Ix'chel <--- note the seperations. Regardless, Ixchel is the lady of the rainbow, and goddess of the moon.
5. AMELIA - the odd one out of this list. Named for Amelia Earhart (as in my signature). I'm a bit gunshy on this one as it takes away from the south american theme my significant other loves and supports AND Amelia Earhart did supposedly crash and die... so there's that.
Chasca is my current favorite and I lean more to it than anything else. I figure it makes sense with birds singing/screaming/yelling/serenading at the humans at dusk and dawn everyday to name a bird after the goddess of dawn.
I'm not pulling the trigger yet for names, as I'm kinda seeing what happens with the son. Mom's have a tendency to give in to adorable sons, and I wouldn't blame her in the slightest. He could use a friend right now. I've made the offer clear to her, even if the possibility of acceptance kinda breaks my heart a little. Poor kid has surgery next week, so hopefully it all goes well.
Isn't amazing though..in just a few short weeks,on how totally different that little featherless,big eyed,little beaky of a critter,will turn in to such a magnificent,full fledged,bundle of joy??
