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Still got hell of it left over 🤣😅🙌🏿
The white sauce is a smoked Tater aïoli sauce😌

See for yourselves 🤣

Minguinho and Acerola escaped together. Minguinho found his way home at sunset that same day. Acerola was driven farther away by a hawk and still hasn’t made it home.
Two days later, I brought home Barbeiro and Gêmeo.
They were unsocialized newcomers. I didn’t force them together or make them share a perch. They have an entire giant room and multiple places where they can choose to be.
Watch what they choose.
They stay close. They move around each other comfortably. They separate and regroup. They negotiate space without the group falling apart. Within a week, Barbeiro and Gêmeo were sleeping outside the cage with Minguinho—in the modified curtains where Minguinho and Acerola used to sleep.
And if you listen to the background, that’s Jaquí yelling “Jaquí!” 😂 She’s off camera but apparently needed everyone to remember that this is still her house.
What gets me most is how quickly they began creating relationships of their own.
I’ve always believed that parrots need more than food, cages, toys, and human affection. They need agency. They need other birds. They need the freedom to choose closeness, distance, friendship, movement, and where they feel safe.
This is what that can look like.

Jaquí hates all three of them though for the time being because she’s a human on the inside 🤣😩

I’m still needing to find a friend for her because soon I will have to go back to doing field calls and she will not be able to be around me all the time 😔

Acerola is still missing, and there is still a space in this flock that belongs to her. Nothing replaces her.
But while I keep hoping she finds her way home i’m also holding out hope that she was found by our local wild cherryhead conure flock and possibly was adopted as happened to Jaquí.

Now you, the reader is all caught up on the conure flock drama 👍🏿

Opine as you see fit🫡

Potential partner for Jaquí…
How should we name the newbie?

Lots of halibut around..
Follow the birds 😉
Missed like 3 solid bites 🤦🏿‍♂️
All short this time so released but missed bites did not feel like shorts at all.
Gotta get that drag right🙇🏿
Follow the osprey🎣

🌊🔥
Fresh-caught California halibut, battered with chickpea flour, Libyan sharmoula and beer, then fried until crisp and golden outside while staying beautifully flaky and succulent inside.
Served on a toasted sesame roll with cheddar, pickles, tartar sauce and cocktail sauce.
The sharmoula brings tomato, cucumber, spice and acidity directly into the chickpea-and-beer batter, giving the crust layers of flavor before the sandwich is even dressed.

#CaliforniaHalibut #CatchAndCook

He was just short!
On the Battlestar once again

He all grown up now ☺️

35 from the surf on the battlestar once again🔥
Can’t wait to try these lures back home 🇧🇷😲🎣

I thought it was a stingray 🤣
Caught on Battlestar seen in pic

Tongue and cheek after the party 🤣🇲🇽👍🏿

I misspoke…. This is a family of Dark Eyed Juncos
They came to eat my parrots leftover food and now they are part of the family lol
Take a look at this video of their baby ending up in my terrarium by accident and how we got him out!
I am rehabilitator from way back, so please don’t flip out on me.
Enjoy!

Birria La Afro-Mexicana
🐑🌶️🔥
Served with:
Slow-braised lamb pre-marinaded with African spices n herbs
Rich chile consommé
Onion, cilantro, and lime
Warm tortillas for dipping
What do you all think?
Is this something you’d try?
Gratitude 🙌🏿❤️

She stay trying to butter me up before bedtime 🙄👺🦜

Apparently, discussing the ethics of humans hunting parrots in New York City is not welcome on the parrot sub

I’ve had this guy for a while now, since February
Since then he has molted (losing a claw in the process) but is otherwise healthy..
His name is One Piece,
He lives off of fish scraps and sand crabs
No, he does not need a chiller,
No, the water is not refrigerated
I can put a whole striper skeleton and pieces in there, and he eats it all within one night