Posted by: Jamieleigh on: August 20, 2009
Photo by David
Location: Waynesboro, VA
Shown: Blue Throated Macaw “Jinx”
My amazing friend Jeannie (whose Amazon parrot I took in for 45 days…) recently got VERY into outdoor freeflight with her parrots along with her friend, Sheri, and her husband, John. I absolutely LOVE going on freeflight trips with them whether it’s in Florida, Virginia or Utah. [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: August 18, 2009
Photo by Jamieleigh
Location: Orlando, FL
Shown: Rare white parakeets “Lexi”, “Visa”, “Nikko”, & “Skye”
While at PetSmart shopping for my cat, I always tend to check out the birds… I just can’t help myself. And normally I don’t get wrapped in by them, but this time was different. I saw this parakeet with a black crown of [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: November 25, 2008
My African Grey, Cressi, was named after a scuba gear brand that I have almost all the gear in. I got into Cressi gear in Saipan while living on that island for 13.5 months and it was different, unique and meant something to me. Well, I first got into scuba diving because of my friend [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: November 18, 2008
Photo by Jamieleigh
Location: Holland America Line
Wrapped Up: Rose Breasted Cockatoo “Bandit”
I had a really hard time naming my youngest cockatoo, Bandit. I ended up doing what most people do and I looked online at popular parrot names that were already in use in great large lists.
Nothing really stuck out at me but we had him [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: May 18, 2008
Photo by Katherine B.
Location: Naples, Florida
Sibs: Blue Throated Macaws
This is a picture of two blue throated macaw babies. One of which, is mine! I have already picked the name (with the help from Dave) of Jinx (Jinxi for a nickname). The reason for the name comes from the word “jinks” but we wanted to spell [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: April 24, 2008
Photo by Dave
Location: Moab, Utah
Hiking with: Congo African Grey “Cressi”
I wanted to share how I came up with names for my birds – as well as use it as a way to come up with a name for yours. One of my husband’s serious pet peeves is animals whose name is “Blackie” or “Fluffy”. I [...]
