Thursday, May 31, 2007

Parrot Mountain



A representative from the parrot Mountain brought three of the birds to our resort on Wednesday. We got to hold and interact with them. After his talk we thought it might be fun to visit Parrot Mountain. It is past DollyWood and truly is on top of the mountain. The last hundred yards were UPHILL.
They have many different birds that you can feed and a pen of Lorikeets that you can feed a small container of nectar while they land on you and fight for the nectar. I found one of the birds was very dominate and didn’t want the others to eat. This bird would even bite me when I took the nectar away for the other birds.
Some of the birds had a sign to not feed or pet as they would bite. In addition to having birds on display they do breed birds for sale. Of course some of the birds are given to them by owners that can no longer care for the birds. Since the birds can live for 70 to 100 years, they can outlive their owners or just no longer have that great attraction they had at first.
Some of the birds talk and one even says “Kill the cat” when you say kitty, kitty. But as with many animals they don’t always act on cue. The bird said “Polly wants a cracker” for me.

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