bowdie73

She has a bunch of stash places! I always try to design her perches so they end in corners or joins with some space. I made her some 45degree wood peices that fit in the corners so she can stash food in them too. I think the cutest thing is when she stashes something, but then gets a leaf to cover the stash!

Sophie is mostly a very happy little thing. Somedays, she's not as into it as others - but that's normal. I always get a happy bree and my hand sat on no matter what. As I mentioned to cloysterbell, I've got used to knowing the noises she makes and if they're happy or not.

Sophie is also very good at phycsially expressing. Her head feathers rise and fall and are surprisingly expressive.

The other thing I love to see is if you give her something new (either a food or toy) and she doesn't like it, she holds it in her beak, looks me in the eye and just lets it drop out of her beak.

I always take that as a no. ;)

Aw, thanks, she is lovely.

Sophie is my forever companion. She wouldn't make it in the wild as she'd just fly upto the first human she'd see and try to bree for them. It's illigal to release imprinted animals here in the UK, but I wouldn't dream of doing it, I love the daft bird too much!

She came to us from a rescue. Some kids stole some eggs from a nest, probably hoping they were owl or something like that. When they hatched and it was clear they were magpie, they dropped them on the local (to them) RSPCA (or like agency) and the nice volunteers hand fed them. Unfortunately, whoever did that didn't have the training to not imprint so poor Sophie became imprinted on humans, and that's how we got her!

As for #feetsfriday, my favourites have to be the nice closeups. I really like seeing the scales and how they join and mesh with the other ones.

Sometimes, yeah. Mostly food. I quite often get raw liver tucked into either my shirt collar or some other fold of fabric. I do sometimes get the liver (god.. why must it always be the raw liver?) pushed up into my nose, or (less often) into my ear.

Always fun, I've been a vegetarian for at least 15 years.

If I had something in my trouser pockets that was stealable, I'd for sure check in with her. She can take money out of my trousers, sometimes without me noticing. I don't keep anything in my breast pocket that I don't want her to find. Sometimes it's fun for her to think she's stolen something. ;)