Day 2- Parrot talk

Today, I walked down to the parrots’ alley. About fifty cockatoo parrots were retained into a wired cage outside a house, with very little space to fly around. 

I wanted to see them and have a chat with them. It was an agitated busy day. Around 6:30 pm, pick hour, the playground nearby was crowded with kids and a lots of traffic was going in the buildings and on the streets. A dummy, mowing his lawn, 20 meters from the parrots’ cage, was doing an incredible noise. 

When I got next to the parrots cage, a brown young cat was sitting next to the cage, staring behind the cage, at something obviously fascinating, which I didn’t investigate further. The parrots couldn’t see the cat because there was a curtain along the wall where the cat was standing, so they were just minding their own business. Maybe they felt the cat, but they didn’t seem disturbed at all by its presence. It turned out that it was the cat of the parrots breeder; it got in the that house a few minutes later. 

I greeted the parrots. They were all agitated, busy as well doing their own thing, eating, flying, grooming, singing, swinging etc. A part from the guinea fowls, who were asleep on the cage’s ground floor, they were all super active. One was terribly agitated flying from one side to the cage of the other, 1.5 meters wide cage! (20 birds at least were in each cage) I tried to calm and tell her (I knew it’s a her somehow) its all good, no panic, don’t get mad, be calm, chill, breath…Then, I had no idea what it was about. I assumed the mowing, but it could have been everything; birds are used to human noises in the urban area. 

I started to speak to all of them like I was holding a conference (via mental images and heart connection, naturally). That was pretty funny to do with them. I told them: “Hey! listen everybody! I know it’s not easy to live in such a retrained space, but feel lucky please, see the good side! You know there’s a lot of unsafety out into the wild, and here you are sheltered and fed, nothing bad can happen to you, know that. 

‘Yeah, but we want to fly high, and out and be free’….I’m hearing. 

“Sure you do, and I understand that, but know this: you will have a better/different life in the next one, you’ll have many others, never be scared of death… Embrace death when it comes, don’t be scared of anything, because it will set you free to something amazing, it is not permanent what you are going through…you all have a beautiful spirit and it will continue to ‘live!’. 

Ahhhhh my cheesy speech had kicked in….My rosy silly naive speech had taken over me once again. 

But at that point, curiously, they were all listening. They all looked very intrigued about this whole speech, there was interest! There was increasing silence in the cage… One relaxed and felt super positive and suddenly went to drink some water full of hope & joy (this came inside of me as a clear intuition- I felt he was suddenly happy inside and was looking forward to my amazing predictions). Not everyone was listening to me at this stage, but many were staring at me, from sideways like birds do, stopping their busy activity. 

Then, a strong wind came by and scared them off. Most of them panicked and few around the cage… I communicated to them how the wind was harmless and wanted them to really know that ‘nothing’ bad could happen to them in that cage, not even cats could get them (they hated one cat in particular, the stubby one, that I didn’t like either and Mustache, as a matter of fact, neither.) Ok, so I continued with my monologue, not hearing anything really specific from them, just a feeling that they were ‘happy listeners’ and very curious. What surprised me is how attentive they got when I told them the next following thing: ‘’don’t feel scared and lonely and unimportant here lovelies, know you can live with love in your heart, from those outside (like me) who love you and think of you, and there are thousands of people in this world who send you love and pray for you so just feel it in your heart when this happens, know you’re never alone and forgotten and you can live happily with this love inside. 

At this point, I thought I may be in a complete monologue, raving in my touchy-feely speeches, and getting all emotional, protecting my own emotional drama onto their condition, but suddenly, I looked at them, and they were all immobile, staring at me.  Three of them, more particularly, standing side by side, body facing the right side of the cage (so not facing me), had  their heads turned towards me, in an intense still position, that kind of freaked me out. 

Their eyes were incredibly attentive and didn’t move from this position for quite some time, perfectly undistracted and captivated I’d say. Wow, I’m having goose bumps as I’m typing this, because the intensity of parrots’ attention is something quite hard to describe. I was at 6 meters from the cage, not moving, not talking aloud, not doing anything but intentional psychic communication, and I that point they were ALL quiet & still. 

All of the sudden, the silence in the cage got disrupted by a white (male, I felt it was a male) who got seemingly very indignated (in the next cage) and displayed some ‘aggressive’ behaviour towards me.  if it could have come out the cage,  and fly towards me aggressing in some ways, I think it would have! Out of rage he was biting on the cage wires and facing me with an unsettling anger. I got ‘who are you to come here give speeches, hu??’ go away, I’m the boss here, they listen to ME. This is my territory..’ okay okay…I said to it, sorry if I upset you, I respect you just as much as the others, sorry if you felt dismissed, and if you are the boss, my apology! I will let you be! I don’t want to steal your place you know. I just acknowledged his claims and flattered him in his position, etc. Then it calmed down. 

A lady was walking her black Labrador on the alley and I thought, let’s say hi to the dog. That was kind of funny.. I was not staring at him, I was just relaxed looking away, visualizing sending him a greeting message in a bubble and heart-connecting with him. When the dog reached up to me it stopped and stared at me with ears up. It looked incredibly surprised. The lady had to pull him away. They waked another few meters, I continued to connect with him then he suddenly stopped and turned around to check me out in disbelief:’ wow, who are you, I never saw that..’ this kind of behavior I have a lot from dogs, without engaging at all, with my body language, just passing by them and telling them “Hi!”. Often they pull their owners leash to come back and get to me, poor babies….They have to obey their master. Some even start to follow me and leave their Master behind. Many owners tell that this behavior is ‘unusual with strangers’…and they are confused.

*One time a dog who saw me coming from a distance, on a leash, stopped his owner and looked at me like he saw some scenes of wonder, or shock or something. The woman: come on, what are you staring at, come don’t be silly. Pulling on his leash. When I approached closer it run to me like he knew me forever. I gave him a pet and the lady owner goes: wow! That’s very strange, he never does that, he acts like he knows you! I replied with a cheeky smile: ‘ well…maybe he does’. “He acts like he met you before...” I said: ‘He did…in different (space & time) dimension..” *

It was getting late. Time to say goodbye to everyone, was very ready to leave. As I left, I threw them a “I love you, bye guys, see you soooon..!”I was mentally disconnected watching my road ahead when 3 seconds later, a very clear, neat and loud ‘phrase came into my mind: ‘l love you too! Come back to visit us again! ’ Thats the cleanest message I got from an animal so far, because I was not trying to hear them anymore and this bounced in my mind like out of nowhere. Bang! They connected with me, while I was already disconnected...