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#ParrotSunday - Land Of The Eagle

Canon photographer Audun Rikardsen shot this magnificent image of a bald eagle and an interesting sky.

#ParrotSunday - Macaw Love

Macaw Love. What happens when a Harlequin and Military Macaw meet? Why, they fall in love and have babies. Kirby spent his life in a loving home and Suzie was abandoned and alone. It is a classic boy rescues girl story, and they are an unlikely pair. But, love conquers all, and the unlikely pairing has created a new species. They are calling the progeny "Miliquin". Life, and love, will find a way.

#ParrotSunday - Animals Do The Funniest Things

#ParrotSunday - Parrot Love...Life Will Find A Way

What do you get when you cross a Harlequin and a Military Macaw? Aside from cacophonous noise, of course? Why, a new species of parrot.

 

#ParrotSunday - Love Among The Blue And Golds

#ParrotSunday - Never Murder A Man Who Has Parrots

It is not a good idea to have an angry confrontation with someone who is a parrot owner; especially, when his parrot is in the room. This woman found that out when she shot her husband. 

 

Rio Still Has Issues

A Stoic Response to Grief

A Stoic Response to Grief. Fate keeps testing my Stoic beliefs. As I sit here pondering the death of my beloved parrot, Savannah, I am concentrating on all the good times we had. Stoicism teaches us to contemplate such events every day, in order to be more prepared for them. I don't do that very well. However, I don't react with weeping and wailing either. I try to consider rationally that every life ends. Ours will end. Others will be tested by our deaths. We still have to go on living until fate calls us. What choice to we have? Savannah, rest in peace. I will try to continue living each day.

#ParrotSunday - How Dinosaurs Became Birds

This short National Geographic video gives a pretty convincing argument that modern birds are the evolutionary descendants of dinosaurs. 

 

#ParrotSunday - The Dinosaurs In My Waiting Room

"The present scientific consensus is that birds are a group of theropod dinosaurs that originated during the Mesozoic Era. A close relationship between birds and dinosaurs was first proposed in the nineteenth century after the discovery of the primitive bird Archaeopteryx in Germany. " Wikipedia

I have a love of parrots and birds, that stems from watching them in my youth. I photographed them, and spent hours in a darkroom developing the photos. Then, when the opportunity to rescue one from an abusive situation came, I took it. The rest, as they say, is history. But, the connection between birds and dinosaurs is pretty obvious to me, even if scientific consensus isn't certain. This photo of a baby blue heron shows a lot of resemblance to the early theropods.