Hello from a wintery South Africa...

Hi there,

Thanks captwest and oatdbunny for the invite to this forum...it all looks great!

For those who don't know me, i'm Tandi, 26 years old and i work as an Air Traffic Controller at O R Tambo International airport in Johannesburg, South Africa! Love my job!

My flock was growing at a rate of knots...but has stopped for now! I'm a proud mama to 2 house birds...Jodi, a male Orange Winged Amazon who is now 11 months old, and Jet, a female Timneh African Grey who is now 7 months old! Love these to babies to bits!!! Jodi is already talking, he says "hello" very clearly now and has also said "what you doing", but only once or twice! He is a really good imitator and will copy us if we whistle or he makes kissing noises when we kiss him and he makes bubble sounds when you pour cooldrink or anything like that! Jet hasn't spoken yet, but i am sure that it is coming really soon! She whistles and also copies us when we do it with her! She is the cutest thing and very determined...if i don't pay her enough attention, she will climb down her cage, get onto the floor and walk to me, wherever i may be! We have to watch where we put our feet due to this...lol...as we wouldn't want to squash her! She does this particularily in the mornings when i am in the kitchen preparing their food!

Having the job i do is great, i work shifts and am therefore able to spend very much time with the birds! And i love it! I find them so entertaining, and i love to watch them play and learn and explore new things!

Then...we aslo have 3 pairs of breeding birds...a beautiful pair of Congo African Greys, they are about 5 years old, and then a pair of Indian Ringnecks and a pair of Mealy Rosella's, and they are both around 2 years old. The Grey's have had babies before, so hopefully i will get some babies out of them by the end of the year!

I always wanted to have a bird when i was younger, but it just never happened! I am glad to have them now, and i never could have imagined the amount of joy that they bring to your life! They are wonderful!

I look forward to getting to know you all, and to learn about your birds, and about my own!

Hi Tandi and your flock
I'm so glad you came here!
I'll be for sure one of many interested in reading stories about your fids!

Hi Tandi!
Glad you're here! The more the merrier in the insane asylum!

Wow...thank you so much for the warm welcome!

Hi Tandi, and Jodi & Jet! to the craziness!

hey it's the capt, welcome to the forum , how is my buddy Jodi doin? Man i feel for ya on the egg watch thing, poor Josie is at home worring over eggs now, good luck and do the photo gallery thing, glad your here, Richard and Jake