Pumpkin

Steve was playing around with portraits yesterday and I decided to add Pumpkin to the mix! She is our 10 year old White Belly Caique, my best little friend in the whole world and I love her with all my heart!

[best appreciated at full size against black] Steve and I are part of a photography group here in southern Oregon, and there is a photo theme for each monthly meeting. The photo presentation is always fun because everyone comes up with so many different ideas! This month's theme was "Pet Portraits", and this is one of the pictures I took! Pumpkin is our darling Caique parrot, a bird native to the Amazon Basin in Brazil. We got her when she was just 6 months old and she's now 10 years old, and the love of my life (along with Steve of course!). This picture was taken in our kitchen with the sun shining through the window and through one of her beautiful eyes. I have another picture like this , taken with my SX30, but I thought it would be fun to take another one with my 5D Mark II! Isn't she amazing?! She's my best little friend in the whole world!! :) This image was taken in April, 2012.

This is what we chop up for Pumpkin's main food every few days: carrots, colorful bell peppers, celary and apples! Our healthy girl loves her fresh fruits and veggies and munches on them all day long! She also gets Zupreems with ocassional treats of "seed treats", walnuts, pecans, bread, and nibbles of our food.

Winner of FlickrDuel contest: Alpha Pets This is a picture of sunlight shining though our parrot's eye. Taken on August 14, 2011.

Pumpkin loves sitting here, where she can look into cracks and chew on cardboard from the foil and plastic wrap!

"Oooooooo, it's dark in there!"

Pumpkin loves looking into cracks of all kinds, and makes lots of silly noises as she does this!

She doesn't ever dip her beak into the coffee, but adores the foamed milk on top!

Pumpkin is really asking for a scritch on the face but this silly pose also looks like she's saying hi! :)