Melbourne Avian Rescue Sanctuary

Bird Fun

The bottle or the ball? Jack the lorikeet makes a mixed decision.

Sometimes here at MARS our Florida based Parrot rescue, you simply have to stop and smell the roses as they say. In this case it is playing ball with and Lorikeet named Jack. 

Ziggy an Umbrella Cockatoo heard the noise and decided to attempt to join in. Although Jack tried to coax her to play the activity was to new to her to grasp the concept of playing ball. 

Exotic birds have different responses to new activities but I am convinced Jack who is an awesome ball player (when a bottle is not offered) will be a good teacher for Ziggy to learn this new way to play.

Thanks for reading and watching from all here at MELBOURNE AVIAN RESCUESANCTUARY.  

 

D.J. Marcotulio is at it again.

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Once again D.J. Marcotulio captured the likeness of two Cockatoos who were at one time residents of our parrot rescue, Melbourne Avian Rescue Sanctuary, and happily I might add that both are now adopted. Her watercolor color portrait of Bryan and Briddy is just a perfect likeness of these two.

Dot would love to paint a custom portrait of your favorite feathered family member. If you would like her to do so, contact her by phone (321)-728-0894 or email DPMplus2@icloud.com.

To view other works by this artist, ask any of us when you visit M.A.R.S. to show you Big Bird & Stubbs, and Cuddles portraits. You will see how well she captures her subjects essences with her amazing talent. Thank-you Dot for being such an amazing artist and a friend and supporter of our organization simply known as M.A.R.S..

Really? A cooking blog from our bird rescue M.A.R.S.

 

Absolutely, a must do this blog moment. Hope you all like reading it. So lets start at the end, and work back to the beginning.

This is not necessarily the fun part, the clean up that is, but considering the well received outcome of the endeavor, not such a big deal, big mess well YES!!!

When you wake up to one very cold Florida morning, ( no we could not see our own breath outside), you naturally want to warm things up a bit. Knowing there will soon be some semi cold volunteers on hand and bird beaks all in need of something warm and hopefully delicious. A little inspiration written into the kitchen window, and let the creative process begin.

One of our volunteers Jill, had recently had a party and shared the unused marinated chicken with us, along with the instructions to cook it and not let it go to waste. So what to do? Simple saute it, add some broth, carmelize some red onion, add some sauteed cherry tomatoes, (I love listening to them pop as they cook don’t you)? My friend and amazing cook Susan taught me that one. And yes Susan is usually the one cooking for all the volunteers here at M.A.R.S.. I am just usually the one cooking for the birds, or is that my cooking is for the birds?  Ah well we will let the volunteers be the judge of that.

So we then add the cherry tomatoes and of course garlic cloves, how could I forget to mention lots of garlic cloves. Place everything in the crock pot for a volunteer lunch later in the afternoon.

The final ingredients, tri colored pasta, and additionally, crusty Italian bread and meyer lemon Itallian cookies for desert. Thank you Susan for those delightful additions to round out the meal.

And for the avians of Melbourne Avian Rescue Sanctuary, one of all their favorites, french toast,  made a little more special for all of them on this very chilly Florida day here at our place simply known as M.A.R.S.

And if you are possibly wondering if we all had a really good, delicious and productive day here at M.A.R.S., I can tell you this, all the Cockatoos, Amazons and Macaws are still quiet.. Always a good sign of happy birds.