What the...

I love my birdies. I have my two at home and MANY at the bird rescue I volunteer at. I am constantly amazed by their intelligence, understanding of their environment and their capacity to survive and thrive. They are fantastic creatures...

A few months ago, I heard the CD player in their room fire up and play the "Whistler" CD. After a fair amount of confusion and a brief moment where I determined the CD player was posessed, I caught a glimpse of my crazy red bird (Sammy) climbing the dresser, jumping down onto the side table with the CD player, and proceeding to bang his head against the buttons until the CD started playing! This has happened *many* times since and its clear that he's figured out how to get the result he wants out of that CD player.

Unfortuately, he's also figured out which drawer in the dresser has the treats in it and how to climb behind the drawers from the top to get to them and gorge himself. Rascal!