Breakfast on the lanai

[chris-md]

Ok, golden girls reference, it’s actually breakfast on the back deck in the woods

(My usual warning: Parker is flightless due to barbering - not a light clip, he removed all primary and tail feathers. So I can get away with this. Please do not attempt to take your bird outside without proper free flight training, a harness, or other containment/cage device)

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[Ekkietiel]

Parker has an amazing view!! He looks great. I can’t believe he has no primary or tail feathers due to barbering. So sad. It’s hard to know that sometimes no matter what you do, how hard you try, birds will do what they want. Thank you for pointing that out for anyone unfamiliar with how easily a bird with trimmed wings can fly away.


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[HEEDLESS]

VERY beautiful view.. Kise is jealous.....
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[SailBoat]

Great to see Parker enjoying "Breakfast on the lanai." Love the peaceful view!

Our Julio would love it, but we live in Red Tail Hawk flight training central for five families and he knows it!

 

[chris-md]

Parker has an amazing view!! He looks great. I can’t believe he has no primary or tail feathers due to barbering. So sad. It’s hard to know that sometimes no matter what you do, how hard you try, birds will do what they want. Thank you for pointing that out for anyone unfamiliar with how easily a bird with trimmed wings can fly away.


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Oh it’s ok. He’s molting now, he’ll have them back in a month. Some are already coming in! In all honesty it’s a little bit of a blessing. I get to take him out without worrying about him flying away, period end of sentence. Of course first preference is that he not barber at all, but if that is the card we’ve been dealt, this ability is a consolation prize. By the time he has all of his feathers grown out and he has flight capability back, it’s too cold to go outside.


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[chris-md]

Great to see Parker enjoying "Breakfast on the lanai." Love the peaceful view!

Our Julio would love it, but we live in Red Tail Hawk flight training central for five families and he knows it!

My friend you’re calling me out and forcing a confession: we have plenty of predatory birds around here as well. This photo is staged, I moved his stand four feet to the left into the sun. His actual set up is like this. Whenever we sit outside and he is on his stand like this (as opposed to sitting directly on me in my chair) he’s ALWAYS under this umbrella to protect against them and other distractions flying overhead that may panic him though he has been outside so often very little actually runs the risk of panicking him. He doesn’t startle like he used to.

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[SailBoat]

The old Queen Red Tailed Hawk fly's in low to look into our screened in porch, which sits under the first floor deck. We have been out there when she came in low and fast, but Julio spots her and he screams at her and she back at him.

I'm not sure what the exchange covers, but she doesn't train on those days. He would be an easy target her, but for her young, it would be the other way around. Not that I would want to test that point.

 

[Scott]

Spectacular view and image of Parker! Enjoy the last few months of nice weather!!

 

[wrench13]

Beautiful view , in both contexts Chris ! How relaxing indeed.

 

[AmyMyBlueFront]

Nice view Chris! "almost" like my back yard..minus the pool! Amy also loves being out on the "deck" under the umbrella also. We have an occasional hawk fly-by and Amy alerts me before I even see it.





Jim

 

[Anansi]

Amazing view Parker has, Chris! And he's looking good, my friend. That umbrella setup is a good idea. I can definitely empathize with the raptor issue. We have a bunch of different predators flying around my area as well. Killed any notions I had regarding free flight VERY early on.

 

[chris-md]

Thanks my friend.

On a gorgeous, low humidity day we have sat out there for a couple hours just relaxing. It really is a slice of paradise (I say as we consider very seriously moving).

 

[Anansi]

Moving? From that scenic locale? You must be moving to actual Lanai, then! Lol!

 

[chris-md]

Contemplating! We live in DC suburbs in Maryland. It’s expensive here, and we are very asset rich/cash poor.

Due to the pandemic, I have the capability of working remotely - if eddie (who has been unemployed since February 1 with a REMARKABLE severance) can get a remote position As well, We realized recently that moving somewhere like Houston, we can have a nicer home for much less. We’ll be able to free money up and not be so paycheck to paycheck. Have a life.

Keep the dc pay while living in a cheaper city.

 

[AmyMyBlueFront]

Contemplating! We live in DC suburbs in Maryland. It’s expensive here, and we are very asset rich/cash poor.

Due to the pandemic, I have the capability of working remotely - if eddie (who has been unemployed since February 1 with a REMARKABLE severance) can get a remote position As well, We realized recently that moving somewhere like Houston, we can have a nicer home for much less. We’ll be able to free money up and not be so paycheck to paycheck. Have a life.

Keep the dc pay while living in a cheaper city.

Geeez Chris...with all the crap that has been happening in that area..hurricane's and flooding and such ( ya I know DC has been experiencing that stuff too) It's really screwed up now with climate change. I'm wondering what this winter has in store for CT this year. Last year's snow fall was MAYBE a total of fifteen inches with a couple nasty ice storms.

Amy doesn't/cant/wont fly either,no matter what I try with him. He just likes the flap flap lessons we do Even if he gets frightened,jumps and waves his arms frantically it's always a THUD to the floor with a look of " what just happened?"

BB would be an easy target for the raptors we have here too.


Jim

 

[chris-md]

Lol Jim - the DMV (DC/maryland/VA) hasn’t really had those. Lots of rain lately. Sure, but no hurricanes or anything. This years been unusually wet, but not torrential.

I’m hoping for more winter this year than last. For the first time since I’ve lived in the area (1999, when I was a sophomore in high school) we got ZERO snow. Very unlike this region.

 

[Anansi]

I'll make sure to send any and ALL snow I get your way, my friend! Lol!

 

[saxguy64]

I'll make sure to send any and ALL snow I get your way, my friend! Lol!

Wait, we can do that? I'll be HAPPY to send some your way. No shortage of the white stuff with Maine winters! [emoji14]

 

[Anansi]

Poor Chris will have to tunnel his way out at this rate! Lol!

 

[chris-md]

Send it!!

Wait...don’t. Working from home I don’t get snow days anymore....