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 Mad About Major
"You are my sunshine" 
Welcome to Majors homepage...I am a complete novice at this so forgive me whilst I trial and error things on here...I am thrilled to make a homepage for my feathered baby 'Major'. Major is a Military Macaw, he will be 4 years old in July. He came to stay with me for two weeks...3 years ago and we bonded, his owner and he didnt bond, I was asked if I would keep him and despite being a bird phobic when he arrived he stole my heart away! I am 110% besotted!!! I embarass my friend by getting his photo out in shops to show the counter staff if im buying something for him. I am like a mother with her first child and despite him turning 4 this year there is no taming me 
Poem for Major... The day you came to stay I was not very pleased!
Had to move the furniture round, made me pretty cheesed!
You seemed to be so noisy, take up so much of 'my' space
& your habits so messy, you always untidied the place
You didn't seem to want to listen to me at all
I would try to talk but you would never respond to my call
You invaded my time with your needs and your noise
Always for me seemed to have a disgruntled poise
Day by day and week by week you settled in my home
I got used to you being here with me, no longer was I alone
Gradually your mess became a very tolerable thing
Your noise became a joy, even that bell you ring and ring
The space I surrendered suddenly seemed so right for you
& meeting all your needs is a pleasure to carry through
I love the way you greet me with a cheery hello
The way you look disgruntled when I have to go
Your chatter warms my heart, your words I love to hear
I want you to fill up my space; I want to have you near
It's so nice when I come home and its just you and I
I cannot imagine life without you now, together we get by. (I wrote this soon after he came to live with me a few years ago)
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Maj's Favourite Food: Anything 'naughty' and mashed potato/pizza!!! Maj can say: hello/major/come on then/step up/no/tickle tickle/darling/chocolate/gorgeous/aawww/kiss kiss/stop it/calm down/mum Maj being super cutsie: Laying his head on me for cuddles and saying aaww & when he tries to sing along to his favourite music DVD and when his chatting to himself. The way he squawks and get excited when I turn my key in the front door...mums home! Maj being super mischevious: Looking for nicks in the wallpaper to chew into a hole! Maj being very clever: If you do something or have something his very interested in he will say a big "hello" as in ooohh come here to me with that Maj's first word: major Maj's favourite games: Peek-a-boo and Fetch (he throws we fetch!!!) At bedtime: He watches me go to bed down the hallway before he settles down for the night and we always have a chat and sometimes I get bedtime kisses 
Maj's character: cute, funny, mischevious, can be a grouch somedays! but of course 110% loveable! Maj's feet: Maj sometimes shoots his foot up into the air when I walk past him on his playframe to say mum pick me up lets go for a walk...and he will lean towards the direction of the kitchen...he knows where the goodies are kept. We go to the bathroom and he looks in the mirror and blushes sooo red Maj is learning: to wave bye bye and to turn the pages of his cloth book   Partying with Major
Major makes Christmas more special for me, I just adore spending time with him, helping him to unwrap his pressies and enjoy them. Its a bit like having a child in the house because he gets excited and will pull the paper off or some of it! & he has a stocking with his name on which he loves to explore and I love putting it together for him, this year I filled it up on Christmas eve morning because I was so excited and left it in my room for the day and night! This year he has loved looking at all the cards on the wall and dancing to Frosty the Snowman...  
This next one melts me everytime I see it... 
& now for some romance!! Saint Valentines Day 06 
Alas love can be a fickle thing Major loved his baby for a few days and then decided he wasnt sharing his space with it any longer and threw it on the floor repeatedly...aawww... 
 Birthday Boy
I love Majors hatchday, feels special cos he is so special and he has the same as anyone else would have presents, cards and a cake...some people think im crazy but hey they dont know what there missing Major will be four years old this coming July. 
Story of a feather... When Major shed his longest tail feather for the 2nd time, I said my friend could have it...well Major had other ideas!...so back came my friend with a long bright pink feather from the craft shop and Major swapped feathers with her ...this became his tickling feather...we are now onto tickling feather number 3 I think...I have great fun tickling him with it and he gets so excited he blushes...he also joins in some times with the words and so he will say "aaawww tickle tickle" it is SO cute. Sometimes he tries to tickle himself with it too... 
 MAJOR STAYING COOL IN THE LONDON HEATWAVE (SUMMER 06)
Ha Ha Ha... Well I saw a toy for parrots the other week which was basically a frame holding a till roll...as maj loves playing with paper I thought it was pretty neat...not worth the £15.00 quid tho!!! so I enlisted my retail manager friend and hey presto Maj has till rolls to play with...
anyway I hung it on his playframe and when my mum came over on tuesday she said...OH MY MAJOR HAS HIS VERY OWN SIZED TOILET ROLL .......................................................... Went into the sitting room to see what major was doing because he was very quiet...he was sitting on one leg watching pretty woman movie on tv...a feathered julia roberts fan! We wont tell him apparently she had a body double for some of it
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 Since coming to live in my new home a few years ago I have constantly amazed my mum with my ability to grow in trust and love. When I came to stay here I used to bang my beak against my cage bars if anyone walked towards my cage, I was on the defense and ready to fight for me but I never ever do that now, I learnt I have no need to defend my home, my home is much bigger than my cage nowadays and my mum lets me out everyday for hours at a time. After I kept my mum up until 3AM in the early days (she was too afraid to pick me up and put me into bed!)  cos I didnt want to go to bed in my cage, we came to an understanding that bedtime was cool cos I knew I was coming out to play again the next day. Now mum tells me when its bedtime and we have a chat, a kiss and off to bed I go(sometimes I stay up a little longer, well I have to test mum out still a bit heehee) When I came here I didnt want anyone to touch me, now mum can hold me, hug me, tickle me, carry me, dance with me(not on a grouchy day tho...we are all allowed our diva days). I used to screech so loud if she touched my feet but now she can tickle them. I have learnt and changed so much and I am always warming my mums heart, she thinks I am amazing to have learnt to trust humans like I have because I was angry and afraid of people before now I love company. I have so many toys to play with and mum got me a big bell, my previous owners told mum I dont like bells but they didnt like the noise when I was having fun, mum loves to hear my bell ringing it means im having a good time and she sais "last orders" heehee. Oh and as for changing my diet urgh-weight watchers have got nothing on me I have gone from an all seed fatty diet to a pellet diet (but treats too) I truly am a marvel and dont mind if you marvel at me!! I still give my mum lots of learning to do about me but she usually works me out eventually with a little help from Fluffies! & I have to say my mum hasnt done bad either cos when I came to stay she was terrified of birds, used to cross the road to avoid a pigeon! Used to run out of the room if I flew! Now its just true love 
Yay look at the montage our friend Ann made for us... 
Hey mum less words and more of me me me!!! ...Okay here ya go 100% Major ...maybe a few words 
Get my best side mum 
My humble abode 
MMMHHH love pizza treat night 
Charming mum I'm trying to sleep! 
...and stretch 
Every last bit!!! 
Tea break 
My bit of fluff(heehee) 
Love love love these!!! 
Stun-wingingly Beautiful Maj the movie star...video clips... Major dancinghttp://s39.photobucket.com/albums/e170/MACAWS/Amazing%20Major/?action=view¤t=MajJan07VID016.flv Major in flight(dont blink you'll miss it heehee!)http://s39.photobucket.com/albums/e170/MACAWS/Amazing%20Major/?action=view¤t=MajJan07VID019.flv Eating toast on mums shoulder!!!http://s39.photobucket.com/albums/e170/MACAWS/Amazing%20Major/?action=view¤t=MajJan07VID020.flv Major's mum being silly http://s39.photobucket.com/albums/e170/MACAWS/Amazing%20Major/?action=view¤t=MajJan07VID021.flv Just swinging around like a monkeyhttp://s39.photobucket.com/albums/e170/MACAWS/Amazing%20Major/?action=view¤t=MajJan07VID017.flv YUMMY IN MY TUMMY... Maj will eat mashed banana on a spoon, give him a whole banana chunk and he throws it at me...doh 
Forget monopoly, scrabble, cards...the game for me is...catch the crab 
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Awesome beauty http://s39.photobucket.com/albums/e170/MACAWS/?action=view¤t=MajJan07VID052.flv
Paperchase http://s39.photobucket.com/albums/e170/MACAWS/Amazing%20Major/?action=view¤t=MajJan07VID054.flv Preening http://s39.photobucket.com/albums/e170/MACAWS/Amazing%20Major/?action=view¤t=Majorvideoclips002.flv My upside down birdy http://s39.photobucket.com/albums/e170/MACAWS/Amazing%20Major/?action=view¤t=Majorvideoclips005.flv  Majors advice on life... TEA AND SYMPATHY IS ALWAYS A GOOD THING!  TAKE TIME TO BE SILLY!  KNOW WHO YOUR FRIENDS ARE  DONT BE AFRAID TO SPREAD YOUR WINGS  A LITTLE TREAT GOES A LONG WAY!  LOVE YOURSELF  UNWIND-RELAX-CHILL OUT!!!  Feather-licious... 
  My Bird Owners Creed… 1.I will always strive to do my very best for you 2.I will never take your wonderful wild side for granted, for you are still a creature of the earth 3.I will always seek to understand you through learning every little thing I can 4.I will not stop trying to enhance your quality of life with me forever conscious of your friends in the wild living free 5.I remain in awe and wonder, counting my lucky stars to have you in my life 6.I will for as long as is humanly possible be here for you, you have my total commitment…after all you have my heart! (c) foreverlearning ******************************************* Hey I wanna play too...
Recycling a catalogue Major style!...
 
and this is for mum... 
'Hiding' under my new toy... 
'Proud' 
(please excuse the walls in photos etc heehee-am in the middle of re-decorating) YAY...MORE VIDEO CLIPS...ENJOY JAN/FEB 07 Maj initiates a game of peek-a-boo... http://s39.photobucket.com/albums/e170/MACAWS/Amazing%20Major/?action=view¤t=snowykew104.flv My pretty boy... http://s39.photobucket.com/albums/e170/MACAWS/Amazing%20Major/?action=view¤t=snowykew105.flv Dodge mum heehee! http://s39.photobucket.com/albums/e170/MACAWS/Amazing%20Major/?action=view¤t=snowykew106.flv Maj shed his longest tail feather the other evening it is just over 16 inches long... 
Video clip 1 Recycling a catalogue Maj style!! 
Video clip 2 Just hanging around like a monkey heehee!! 
Video Clip 3 MMMHHH walnut or almond??!! 
Video Clip 4 Turn up your volume button and enjoy Maj's chatter as much as I do :0)...some of his words in this are tickle tickle/kiss/hello/come on step up/aawwww 
Video clip 5 Rolling out the fun 
Video clip 6 Preening Ball play 
Video clip 7 My upside down birdy!! 
Video clip 8 A few seconds of flight!! 
Video clip 9 Munching Major 
Video clip 10 Snuggly cuddly with mum 
Video clip 11 Cage talk! (excuse decor am re-decorating chaos reigns supreme) 
Video clip 12 Maj has a treat! 
Video Clip 13 -Give me some loving- 
Me with my new toy, mum and I play throw-fetch-catch with it and we have lots of fun, love my new toy... 
Open wide for Major..heehee..show him those molars.. 
Yipee we got a parcel from Carrie across the 'pond' heehee... Maj was SO excited, he was like oooh let me see what is in there... 
Let us introduce to you 'Jarrie' heehee... 
WOW look what ive got mum, auntie Carrie made it just for me! Oh I love it... 
Poor Jarrie we put him to bed he was jet lagged (laughing out loud)... 
PANCAKE DAY(feb 07)...Maj tastes a pancake for the first time and oh my he LOVES it and the noise he made for more-urgh but he was rationed! 
The start of Major's scrapbook... 
In the winter if its particularly cold I give Maj a blow dry with my hair dryer after his shower (on the lowest setting-standing a distance from him) and he absolutely loves it, sometimes he falls asleep here is my fluffy baby-watch how he sticks out his tongue to taste the air too funny!!... 
Who's looking at you kid... 
March 07... Major finally wins the battle for the clothes airer I buy a new one for my washing and the other one becomes his 2nd play gym!!! (always supervised as he sometimes decides to chew the clips which hold it up (not clever)
Maj is trying to say a new word which comes from me asking him if he would like to watch his favourite DVD 'again' so he nows says 'aga, aga, aga' hehe...bless him
Hooray Maj has decided he likes cooked rice...woohoo something healthy!!! heehee
Maj is enjoying sitting on my arm watching out the window, its so funny he makes all these little noises as he tries to work out what those funny little moving things are (traffic!!)
Maj trying to decide if 'Jarrie' is a friend or foe hehe...  A hair re-style thinks Major... 
Birthday card for my partner inside it reads...do I get icecream? heehee... 
Drip...drip...drip... 
Major on his chosen alternative play frame... 
 Poem I wrote for My Major this evening (25th 3 07)>>> You are incredible… You were born for trees, cliffs and open space Yet you live happily with me in my brick built city place You were born to soar above it all, to spread your wings and fly free Yet you adapted to life amongst furniture & human clutter with me You are incredible
You were born with amazing powerful wings When you take flight although it is brief my heart leaps and sings You were born for so much more than my human city existence But I am oh so blessed and enriched by your wondrous presence You are incredible
In your early days you learnt that humans were something to fear Now you delight in our company and long for us to draw near I admire your courageous spirit that took a chance on humans again Rarely do us humans make such a leap of faith in the face of rejections pain You are incredible
The joy you have in simple things like a piece of cardboard to chew The amazement you get out of so many things old or new Your eyes flashing with excitement, that little noise you make on getting a little recycled ‘treasure’ To sit back and quietly watch you is an endless pleasure You are incredible
Your human ways you have adopted, the goodbye and hello The squawk which tells me you’re happy to see me home or sad to me go The kiss goodnight or the kiss good morning The ‘chat’ we have before bed ready for a new day dawning You are incredible I must always count my blessings that you chose to love me I must always remember your birth right, your wild side, and your in-born curiosity My life will always be brighter, happier with you in my home You have taught me more about myself than I had ever known Yes… You are incredible Having a boogie to the radio...  June 07
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