In an attempt to increase my flock's quality of life, I have decided to follow a friend's practice of bringing her birds to the park for weekly excursions and a picnic!

Although i have brought Tara, Bodhi and Manju out for parrot outings organized by an informal Singapore parrots club called Ministryof Parrots (MOPA), they are few and infrequent.

Due to the number of birds, i could only bring two birds at one time with the help of my dad this time round.

So its Baby and Tara for this first outing in the neighbourhood.

 Coincidentally, the block just in front of the playground, on the second floor, is a unit home to an Indian family that keep parrots as well!! When Tara and Baby were at the playground and vocalizing, their parrots responded. Sounds like several lovies and a ringneck parakeet to me
But when the uncle and auntie stand by their windows and held up a lesser sulphur, we know better!

The cute cockatoo kept meowing like a cat when I held up Baby to let both have a better view of each other. How adorable!
hehe I long for the day when the couple could bring down their too and other parrots for a friendly session at the playground.

Hopefully, I could bring all four of my flock down with the help of both my sis and Dad.

An Indonesian nanny/maid and her charge. She told me about the white cockatoos of her homeland. And how those intelligent birds co-exist in the agriculutral landscape eating the crops of the farmers. Villagers also trap some of the cockatoos to keep as pets and even those wild ones become tamer over time. She told me of a story of ehr friend's bird who has a rather soft spot for chili and would rebuke her friend if the food the friend cooked for the bird is not up to the too's standard.

 Baby on the playground.

She also wandered on the grass and vegetated patches and I observed her chewing the dried and hardened mud and soil. Wonder if its for minerals like what those wild macaws do by the river banks of the great Amazon Rivers.