For the Birds

Special thanks for rounding up the material about birds. I have a large Amazon yellow nape named Pico and feed him carrots, cabbage (he hates any kind of lettuce; thank God, at those prices), apples, grapes, peaches, mangoes, pistachio nuts, sometimes whole almonds, peanuts and more. Oh, yes, he likes challah because of the raisins in it and the shiny crust. My friend buys it for him at her fave bakery and she calls him Mr. Seagull.

Very little information is in any of those bird books in pet stores--your material is a treasure. Yes, it’s true. I hadn’t the heart to cook some drummettes of chicken to give Pico but Steve, then at Burbank’s Dances With Birds, told me to get those and broil them for a treat for Pico. I thought it was cannibalism too, but apparently not.

--GENI CHARLESWORTH

Los Angeles