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Post by beccilouise on May 17, 2016 7:43:49 GMT -5
I have been exceptionally busy recently, with attending seminars for my MA, rehearsing and performing two spoken word shows, attending my placement school for my MA and teaching 3 days a week, while also trying to organise work for myself for next year... As a result I've gone down with a nasty cold and have had a couple of migraines in the last month or so, which is clearly my body telling me I ought to rest. I've let Maya onto her playstand, transferred my bedding to the sofa and napped on the sofa while Maya plays with her toys. Three times now, I've woken up to find that Maya has taken all her woven foraging toys from her foraging basket and arranged them very neatly around my head. She herself is normally sitting, puffed up and keeping watch, on the arm of the sofa with one foot tucked up into her tummy feathers. I've no idea what this means, but I like to think it's her way of tucking me in and telling me to get a good rest...  |
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Post by Angela on May 17, 2016 7:52:01 GMT -5
Oh that's so sweet Beccilouise! Definitely sounds like she's trying to look after you  Hope you get better soon |
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Post by julianna on May 17, 2016 12:44:48 GMT -5
That really is cute. As you might remember Oscar is quite the house builder. He uses these long plastic zip ties but at first he would use wooden dowels. A few times while I would be watching TV he would get his dowels and come and tuck them in around my back and legs. I could tell he was trying to build a house with me in it. lol.
Maybe Maya is doing the same and trying to protect you.
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Post by beccilouise on May 17, 2016 16:51:40 GMT -5
Thanks guys. Julianna, that's so sweet! I think she's definitely trying to be protective. She's being very loving at the moment, maybe she can tell I need some tlc. She's getting on a lot better with David recently as well, although still seems to prefer perching on my shoulder and is significantly more excited when it's me who gets home. Hopefully, even if she switches allegiance from me to David, the fact that Maya and I already have a strong training relationship will help to keep us friendly. I'm also hoping the strong training relationship will help her to stay attached to me, as she doesn't have this at all with David, and she does seem to enjoy training. When I get the playstand ready, she clambers to the perch on the top and fluffs up her feathers, cheeping away impatiently to get started. She likes the game of it, I think, of performing the tricks and she looooves the praise! Still, good to know that my little birdie wants to keep me safe and snug |
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Post by Jan and Shah on May 17, 2016 18:03:27 GMT -5
That is lovely. Shah is the worst nurse in the world and becomes very impatient with me if I am ill.
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Post by cnyguy on May 17, 2016 20:13:42 GMT -5
So nice of Maya to look after you so well when you're not feeling well. If I'm ill, Ralph seems to think that because I'm home and not busy doing anything, I ought to be giving him extra attention. He's not impatient as Shah evidently is, but he certainly resents it if I try to get some rest. Doze off and get squawked awake.  |
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Post by Jan and Shah on May 17, 2016 22:40:34 GMT -5
Gary, if I dare fall asleep when I am giving Shah scritches, I not only get yelled at, I get a bite to help me wake up  |
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Post by biteybird on May 18, 2016 4:20:36 GMT -5
Hmm, I think Bonnie would be somewhat like Shah and Ralph, in that she would resent the fact that I wouldn't be paying her enough attention. Hard to say... Maya is a sweetie! I can just picture her watching over you and placing the items around you. |
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Post by Jasper's minion on May 18, 2016 5:21:24 GMT -5
That's the most adorable thing, what a little sweetie.
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Post by beccilouise on May 18, 2016 10:22:44 GMT -5
She is a little cutie. I can't believe she's nearly a year old! 15th July is her hatchday!
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Post by Caseysmom on May 18, 2016 19:31:09 GMT -5
That is very sweet!
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Post by Holly on May 19, 2016 3:15:20 GMT -5
That is just the cutest thing... Normy seems to be more 'all about him' at the moment haha but I don't mind... he does give very sweet little birdy kisses!
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Post by beccilouise on May 19, 2016 3:50:08 GMT -5
Well, the 'all-about-me' phase may emerge with a vengeance in the next couple of months as puberty really rucks up Maya's hormones! We'll just have to see. She's taken a rather alarming attachment to any kind of yoghurt pot, plays with them for hours, but has decided irrevocably that my moisturiser pot is 'The Enemy', and it is fiercely attacked whenever I lift it off the table, which is annoying as I have a cold at the moment and the skin around my nose is really dry!
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Post by aaron on May 19, 2016 12:50:24 GMT -5
Cupcake is obsessed with the jar of raw honey that my wife uses as lip balm (this works quite well, by the way) -- for a while she was getting a (very) tiny dab of honey whenever my wife used it, but we learned that raw honey is not safe for birds (or infants, for that matter) and so we stopped giving it to her. Now whenever that jar comes out and she doesn't get any honey, she throws a fit and starts grumping up a storm, and/or beak bonking my wife repeatedly when she's holding it. It's always something  |
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Post by beccilouise on May 19, 2016 13:52:00 GMT -5
aaron, I just read the phrase 'beak bonking' and burst out loud, knowing exactly what you mean! David and I have been trying to think of a name for that behaviour for ages and this is perfect! My moisturiser is really good. It's this intense moisurising balm from Holland and Barratt, she's just decided that she hates it. I napped on the sofa again this evening and woke to another nest around my head, then my boyfriend came to give me a hug and Maya snuggled up in between our faces to give us both kisses. She's getting on a lot better with David recently, but still seems to want snuggles with me and to ride around on my shoulder. I am aware that this behaviour of being lovely to everyone may change, but she is nearly a year old now and displaying other signs of teenage behaviour, so we'll see. It may be that we are able to keep her well socialised, or that we need to start again from scatch. Either way, the building nests around my head remains a really lovely behaviour. It's quite nice to wake up surrounded by bits of woven toy and wooden chew sticks, if a little strange!
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Hope you get better soon 
