After about 3 weeks of cleaning, decorating and building the aviaries were ready. I am quite pleased with the finished results and hoped the Pionus would like them, they had never had so much room in a cage.


Finally we were off, around 3 hours to Dover, there I got stopped by customs, once they saw my jam packed car they really didn’t want to know! The female officer cooed over the parrots (what she could see of them) but they weren’t interested in any paperwork and waved me through and after a 1.5 hour ferry ride and about 8.5 hours the other side… a long way… I arrived at 6.30am and had to get the parrots sorted. When I finally did get them, fed, watered and settled I slept a lot! I had a lot of work to do in the coming weeks to make the Pionus a permanent home. I am very lucky in that Sonja is a trader and she trades in tools and building materials, she gets it all at trade price. She suggested in one of the spare rooms


14 BIRD SCENE


downstairs in the basement that was a junk room we turn it into a bedroom and we built aluminium aviaries! Great! This girl is a rare find and for me perfect. For a few weeks the birds stayed in their


travel cages but they were out during the day often. After about 3 weeks of cleaning, decorating and building the aviaries were ready. I am quite pleased with the finished results and hoped the Pionus would like them, they had never had so much room in a cage. When I introduced them they looked lost and hardly moved, but the next day they were exploring their new living space. The aviaries are not massive at around 1.4m in length and 0.9m wide and 2m high, but they have performed some amazing flying acrobatics in there and get around


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