Kakariki improving

Our male Kakariki (a small New Zealand parrot) was trying to remove its eyeball on any stick it could find. We rescued it from the aviary and checked it into the Parker-Nance animal hospital. It has stopped scratching and the eye seems to be healing well. Hopefully it wont lose the eye.

Shirley is back from Cape Town

Shirley got back last night from a successful reef biodiversity workshop in Cape Town. Seems like she missed the kids more than the kids missed her!

Shirley's in Cape Town

Shirley left this evening for a workshop at the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) in Cape Town. Kids are all asleep. So tomorrow I will be working from home between taking and fetching the kids to and from school. Shirley gets back tomorrow night.

Family addition (dove)

We have a new family member, a dove. The proud parents managed to get the baby out of the nest, but 3 days later tried to kill it. So it came into the house until its wounds healed. That included a trip to St Francis. It went back into the aviary, only to be viciously attacked by the parents, especially the mom who had new eggs. So its now in the house.

Shirley made it a perch, similar to a parrot perch, and it now sits there most of the time. Even with the doors open, it stays inside, so I think we have a dove that wants to stay inside.

We now have a love triangle, the dove is in love with the dog, the dog with the guinea pig, etc. etc.

Welcome

Welcome to the Parker-Nance family blog. We will try and keep you up to date with family news.