On a happier note, I stumbled upon a website where a musician makes music inspired by his cockatiel.  Some of the songs even include clips of the bird!

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I haven’t wanted to write about the oil spill in the Gulf Coast because it’s so upsetting.  Every day I search for new pictures of oil covered birds because I think it’s important to understand the depths of this tragedy.  If you want to feel your heart break you should look here, here and here. . [...]

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I love swallows.  This is a barn swallow from California: Barn Swallows are best distinguished by the tail feathers, which look like little pincers.  I always think of earwigs when I look at their tail feathers.  Both Barn Swallows and Cliff Swallows make nests out of mud, but the Cliff Swallows make nests that look [...]

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The baby has reached the stage where he wants to join the other cockatiels.  If I bring Conner and Audrey on the bed, the baby flies over.  If I pick up the baby he chirps miserably until he’s reunited with the others.  Every night the cockatiels have to walk across the floor.  This time, Conner [...]

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I’ve started my garden!  First you use a pitchfork to turn the soil underneath.

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In Deseret Ranch we drove by several water bodies.

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So I’m sitting outside experimenting with settings on my camera by taking pictures of sparrows

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The baby does not have the best diet.  If it were up to him, he would eat 100% millet.

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