Jardy, Page 3

A lady has been drawing a friends Jardine's picture....so she's been asking me my opinion of the coloring, etc. So I've been looking at Jardy....here are some pics of him...at age 6....

Isn't it neat to see how the black wing feathers are so carefully edged in that beautiful green....!

The nare picture shows a very small area of red/orange feathering. Lesser Jardine's are much more "colorful" when it comes to the red/orange areas on their bodies than the Greater Jardine's, but Jardy has even less coloring than most Greater Jardine's....he's a plain green/black elegant bird, don't you agree?

Here he is busily preening those gorgeous feathers!

March '01 - Sassy the pionus is not a happy camper when it comes to baths so she gets an almond afterwards...of course, you can't treat just one.

Everybirdie who will take an almond gets one...but Jardy says yuck....he's eager to pick up...does he not believe his own eyes?....and then drops....so he gets a pecan instead. Jardy & pecans...it's a love affair of long standing! As you can tell....

I rather like this wet bird look with an ear hole peeking through. A contrast to his usual green elegance.

Dec '01 - Jardy is a Greater....weight 271 when he isn't soaking wet as he is in this picture. Eight years old last November. He is quite plain....only the tiniest of red feathers at his nare & the same at his ankles. However, I just discovered one feather of hidden beauty....! I tried many times to take a picture of that feather on bath day....when I could arrange some of the wet feathers to the side to expose this hidden yellow/orange feather....but each time I got ready with the camera, he'd shake & my lens was spattered with water & the feather went back into hiding. So I finally took beak in hand & when that feather molts out & disappears (it'll just look like another caique feather), I'll have photographic evidence left.

I really enjoy enthusiastic bathers....with Jardy, a good bath means that he's turned black & his ear holes show. He likes his bath bowl but also begs to be sprayed at the same time. He's aggressive about the bowl when he's anxious for a bath. I'd better get the bowl on the countertop BEFORE he comes along or he's stepping into it while I'm still moving it & then attacks my fingers immediately.

He does NOT attack toes....he tried that a couple of times zipping out from underneath the dining room table, but I decided immediately that was way too dangerous for him. So he learned in a hurry that a toe attack got him some lock up time in his cage & he quit doing it.

Jardy (plain but elegant GJ)

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