Stanley
The "Tool Time" Builder Bird
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How
much "Stuff" will fit in a 12" x 15" bird cage?
Stanley the Builder Quaker Bird tries to find out.
(see below for what the cage held)
Stanley Loves to Build
Stanley is a little Quaker Parrot who just loves to build in
his cage. He's almost 4 now and has displayed some of the most unusual talent for building
with almost anything he can get his beak around and fly off with. It's difficult getting
pictures of a flying bird but here are attempts.
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Stanley and Max, the
Rosella, live in our Bedroom. Stanley loves to grab things off of the bed and fly them
over to his cage and stuff it inside. Here, Stanley has stolen my necktie and is flying
cageward. I happened on this one day by accident and was very surprised
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On another occasion I
was getting dressed and placed a coat hangar on the bed after removing my shirt from it. A
moment later it was skyward, headed for Stanley's cage. We have been surprised several
times by Stanley inside the closet rifling the clothes looking for loose hangars. |
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One day I looked inside
his cage and found three plastic hangars hooked and entangled. |
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Stanley is very
aggressive when it comes to building. He drags and tugs .... |
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.... and drags and tugs
and pulls and grunts the entire time. Stanley has a lot of strength and power in those
little legs. His wings are powerful too. He tries to fly objects that are much heavier
than he. So far he drops to heavy objects to the floor but I know that with practice he'll
be able to carry the heavy stuff too. |
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After a long hard
afternoon of building Stanley rests on his rope perch. A new found building treasure is
stuffed in the cage ready for another building session. |
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Most of the time there
are unusual "things" protruding from Stanley's cage.This picture shows a maroon
coat hangar on the deck and several others lodged inside. Look closely and you will see
Stanley dragging a newly stolen tie inside. These coat
hangars have been great toys for my buddy Stanley. |
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Contents
of Cage
Here's what was still in the cage when I cleaned it. 15 plastic hangars, 45 rawhide bones,
assorted plastic toys - cars - mirrors - etc, several plastic chains, white belt, 12 long
wooden dowels, several short dowels, assorted cage hardware, 3 foot rawhide lace, yellow
buddy, several wash cloths, a hand towel, food bowls and anything else that belonged to
Max the Rosella that he could steal from Max's cage.
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The
above photos were taken with the Digital Casio LCD still camera. They were processed with
Corel Photo-Paint
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