What's up with Apple?

hey,you were wanting to know about Apple squacking when your out and about ? Tell us about that.Is he afraid of the great wide open?How old is Apple?

I was just scrolling through the new threads and this title totally caught me off guard!!

Yeah, what is up with Apple?!? I take him outside, and he'll try to call the wild birds outside. Almost everywhere, you can hear some sort of a wild bird chirping every so often. So Apple does the Cockatiel scream trying to contact them. He doesn't necessarily seem phobic of the new environment, he'll just squawk every 3 seconds for a LONG time- however long we stay out for.

I feel like Apple really wants to communicate with the wild birds, can't think of a better explanation..

Oh, I was told that he is "4" last year. Who knows how old really though.

Yeah i think tiels are pretty social and are always looking for a flock, He's excited to be out and about.Maybe he's looking a GF.

Chico is doing similar thing. Specially, when we're in the forest and she can hear a lot of different birds. When she forgets about fighting her harness, she make those Wee Wee calls and it's cute

Well, Chico does the widdle feminine wee wee's..
Apple does the masculine, obnoxious YEEEK YEEEEK's..

GlassOnion wrote:

Well, Chico does the widdle feminine wee wee's..
Apple does the masculine, obnoxious YEEEK YEEEEK's..

lol.

I get a lot of birds outside my window. Never gets Einstein excited. The budgies on the other hand, never shut up!

zazanomore wrote:

(...)The budgies on the other hand, never shut up!

Imagine my 4 (3 male) Chico is a way quieter than them...

Bonnie is actually the loudest out of everyone. I think she just likes the sound of her voice.

Scooter thinks the coffee machine and dishwasher are contact calling him. I wonder if that's why a lot of birds pick up those sounds? It took me almost a year to realize that's what he was doing, but he contact calls back to them just exactly as he does to me when I'm in the house and not nearby. It's not as obvious with wild birds, because I don't pick out their calls the same way, but maybe when I start getting him outside more he'll do that, too.

Scotty has picked up a lot of sounds but does not obviously converse with the electronics the way Scooter does. I don't know if it is because he is smarter or less social.

Hopefully I'm not over hijacking the thread!

No no, you're not hijacking! But I'm so tired of EEKKKK EEEKKKKK
I just

Maybe parrots should be issued with a pair of noise cancelling headphones! It's funny, I'm really pretty sensitive to manmade noises and I hate the TV being too loud. I can only stand loud music when I'm psyched up for it and ready to exist totally in the sound... and possibly with a martini on board. But my husband, whom I am constantly asking to turn something down, is the one that gets bothered by the birds yelling. I guess I've decided on some fundamental emotional level that it can't be controlled and that I should therefore let it wash over me.

ScooterNScotty wrote:

(...) I can only stand loud music when I'm psyched up for it and ready to exist totally in the sound (...) I guess I've decided on some fundamental emotional level that it can't be controlled and that I should therefore let it wash over me.

I just want to say as somebody who is obsessed with sound, I LOVE the way you describe it. Very poetic and authentic I would rather be blind and bedridden than deaf.

^ Love it.

LyzGrace wrote:

ScooterNScotty wrote:

(...) I can only stand loud music when I'm psyched up for it and ready to exist totally in the sound (...) I guess I've decided on some fundamental emotional level that it can't be controlled and that I should therefore let it wash over me.

I just want to say as somebody who is obsessed with sound, I LOVE the way you describe it. Very poetic and authentic I would rather be blind and bedridden than deaf.

Sorry have been blind legally blind and then some and I think I could take the silence to see the beauty. But that is just me after not being able to see any of my birds less than 3 feet away and none of their expressions.

Does he beep like the microwave too??

Yes!! How did you know?!

We have tiels that mimic Red Shoulder Hawk,Mocking Bird, and Cactus Wren.

Sam's dad mimics crows. . . off in the distance. So it's a little muffled, distant "caw, caw, caw".

Them tiels are hazardous..