Tinkerbell - Love of a flying grey parrot in Taiwan

[Swimmer]

That's really cool! You should make a documentary or movie on all this, teaching everyone about birds.

[shanlung]

:-)

Thank you for all those nice things that you say.


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Videos of Tinkerbell and Yingshiong Singing

To all friends of Tinkerbell and Yingshiong,

My wife uploaded a few videos. Those are old videos of Tinkerbell and of scenes in Taiwan. You can also see Yingshiong singing and display.

That can be access via
http://shimmertje.livejournal.com/79634.html

I cannot see any of them as I am in Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia.

Perhaps you might find those videos interesting.


Shanlung

[tamtam2422]

Welcome to Shanlung and Tinkerbell. Great pictures!!!!

[shanlung]

Tamtam,

:-)

Thank you!

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Very OT - on shisha and hidden valley

A shisha place and hunt for hidden valley.

For your reading pleasure if you are too bored with
thumb twiddling.

http://shanlung.livejournal.com/60849.html


Warmest regards

Shanlung

[edward]

:o kool

[shanlung]

Edward.

:-)

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Very OT - Sheep head and camel milk

The last Saudi friday weekend of 25 Aug was likely to
be the last trip we all be making into the desert
around Riyadh.


You might find "Sheep head and camel milk" to be
interesting. If you have delicate stomach, you might
not wish to read

http://shanlung.livejournal.com/61041.html

Warmest regards


Shanlung

[clifff123]

Welcome to Shanlung and Tinkerbell, I have seen yor pictures on internet but never read your story. I am looking forward to reading it along with your blog!

[shanlung]

Cliff

:-)

Very OT - To Edge of the World


Likely to be the last report I make from the Kingdom
of Saudi Arabia.

http://shanlung.livejournal.com/2006/09/03/


Warmest regards

Shanlung

[shanlung]

Back to birds and Yingshiong again

http://shanlung.livejournal.com/2006/09/14/

The re-acquaintance with YS and persuading of him that
I am ok to be with.

This friday morning, he even flew to me over
intermediate distance as well.

I will be going to Brisbane Australia next week for a
couple of weeks. I will lay some flowers for Steve in
Beerwah.

If any birdie folks in and around Brisbane are free,
it will be nice to meet you over a beer or two. Drop
me an email.


Warmest regards

Shanlung
http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9/

[notredamebird]

Ahh, Shanlung, if only I were in Australia!

Thanks for another update!

If I haven't said so already, I really think you should write about your adventures and look for a publisher. People would love to read what you did with Tinkerbell and to see your pictures.

[shanlung]

Notredamebird,


:-)

I got back to Singapore about a week ago.


Here are some more videos taken by my wife that she posted up on Youtube.


Shama gathering at Jurong East.

She came with me to the Friday shama gathering at Jurong East about 3 weeks ago. She took this video of
those shamas singing. They even had this female shama hung in a corner to get those male shamas to try to sing better.

I thought they would be singing better than what they did with so many of shamas there.

I went again to the shama gathering at Bishan on Wednesday night 4 nights back. There were more shamas at Bishan
than in Jurong East. But the performance was about the same.


Boy shamas meet girl shama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SETlozPnVRM


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This is the first time my wife shot Yingshiong and me and posted onto Youtube.

Unlike photos where no sound is heard, you can see now the response of YS to recall cues given. The presence of my wife
affected YS response to me. He was not as sharp as when there were only the two of us.

There is also some problems with the camera Panasonic Lumix in the video mode. The synchronisation of sound is a bit
later than the images. You see/hear this especially in
Yingshiong recalls outside the flight room (short recall)

The response from Tinkerbell was about the same as what you seen in Yingshiong, except YS flew a lot faster.

Yingshiong does a recall in the flight room
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG591GJe2Hc



Yingshiong recalls outside the flight room (short recall)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b56Bqb3tEE

Recall taken from back(short recall)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHtprUChllo

The intermediate recall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHebpK3_qOQ

Yingshiong intermediate recall II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN6ASq9Et3M


When I decided YS is to go back into his flightroom so Ivan the cat can be out, I just signal with my hand
and tell YS ' go back'. You can see this sequence here, where YS flew back to his flight room and into his cage at my
cue.


Yingshiong flies back on command
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVMbbxjjJqs



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Yingshiong sings almost all the time. He takes a break from about 2 pm to 3 pm. But if there are bird singing
from the TV (often switched on Animal planet/Nat Geo) YS will challenge those songs with his songs. Even into the
night time when he is asleep, he would wake up on hearing bird songs from TV to challenge those songs.

These series of YS doing territorial challenge came from a sustained continuous singing/territorial display from 1020 am until 1150am.

Sadly, his best song sequences were not captured. That occured during play back on camera of his songs, which then prompt him
to richer singing. By the time I got the camera to shoot video, he changed back to normal singing again.

YS is in midst of moulting now. His singing and display should be better after his moulting is completed.

This series shot on Oct 8 2006.


Yingshiong sings in the house
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ0QxSpQxVA


Yingshiong sings in the house II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cELskZ7GXh8

Yingshiong sings in the house III
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScT8SsB_cuA
_________________
Warmest regards

Shanlung

http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9

[ZoologyGirl]

Hello Shanlung. I must say I've loved reading all your stories on the adventures of you and your birds. I am absolutely amazed at your knowledge of animal behavior and care. I've loved reading about all your travels, just amazing.

[sweetytweety]

thank u Shanlung...beautiful glorious is ur bird!
will be so good to hear about ur training techiniques..!

[shanlung]

ZoologyGirl,

I was, am and still will be stumbling along on this path. One step forward, a lurch to left and reeling to the right and two steps backwards describe more clearly the progress made.

I am lucky in that those furry and feathered beasties with me are clever enough to teach me through those mishaps.






sweetytweety,

Since you enjoyed those fotos and videos, try to spend some time reading the stories and events behind those fotos.

Start with Tinkerbell Legacy as that is the legacy Tink left for you, that you can live with a flighted parrot. HAVING A SENSE OF HUMOUR IS THE MOST ESSENTIAL PART.

That is also a guide as to how you come about that. Specific training techniques (with a heavy dose of my philosophy) can be found there.

The livejournal entries of Yingshiong documented on a day by day basis how one of the shyest and most timid bird in the world got to trust and accept me as his equal. Those photos and videos of YS flying to me is the first time a male white-rumped shama flew to a human.

But then, without my meeting with my birdwhisperer friend of Tsaoling, I never would have dreamed of doing that at all.

And yes, before you think I am good, do read of my friend from Tsaoling. You will find that in Part 1 - the early period of Tinkerbell


Warmest regards


Shanlung

[shanlung]

Deepavali day Shama competition at Bedok North , Singapore





Deepavali is an ancient Hindu festival of lights, to symbolise the triumph of good over evil. In those
days when gods were on earth, it was easier to tell what is good or evil, especially when your
people write the book. Nowadays, what is good and what is evil is a bit more dificult to tell, especially
if we take into account the aftermath as well.

Deepavali fell on this year on Saturday 21 Oct for all Hindus and their friends around the world and in Singapore.

After a lapse of 20 years or so, I celebrated that day with a very old Hindu friend SK by having Deepavali lunch
with his family. Much of those time I was not even in Singapore, or he was not in Singapore. Our friendship
started one early morning around 3am about 40 years ago. That was at end of a hitchhiking trip in Malaysia and I was walking
back across the causeway linking Malaysia to Singapore. Those times the drivers were more friendly and mindsets a lot safer
to travel on the cheap by hitchhiking.

I had to take a leak and hopped off the road to do that and I noticed someone else had the same idea. That was SK.
No other cars were around and we end up walking and walking back and chatting away. Needless to say, we became friends
from that time. SK and I gone and did more stuff, much of that should not be written.

By an amazing coincidence that only fate can arrange, he became very close friend of CM, that guy who triggered me into
this bird world as I related in Tinkerbell Introduction. CM was there for lunch too. It was in the house of SK's late father, the
famed mystic and astrologer at Ceylon Road.

Singapore is a tightly controlled and organised society.

There can be some good in a tightly organised society too. So Deepavali is not just private celebrations amonge Hindus and
their friends. The Indian area of Serangoon Road were decked out with lights and decorations for both tourists and locals to
enjoy. Events were also organised for this festive occasion.

One such event was this shama singing competition on this evening. I read about this in one of the Singapore Internet
bird group site a few days ago. I asked CM if he liked to come as well. The last time I dragged him screaming and kicking
to a shama gathering was at Bishan. That Philistine complained and nagged that those shamas just go 'cheep cheep cheep'
and refused to join me this time. My wife Joy had other things to do, and since she is my cameraman and videoman, there
were no photos or videos.

So it was at 745pm that I got off the bus near Block 537, Bedok North Street 3. Immediately I knew where to go to. The singing
of the shamas could be clearly heard. They were a lot louder than the shama gatherings I went to in Jurong East, Bishan and AMK.
Their singings were as rich as I imagined a group of shamas to be. Perhaps those shamas at earlier gatherings I been to were not in
best singing form. But as this was a competition, maybe their proud owners prepared and primed their shamas.

This competition was in a shed fitted with hooks to hang the cages from. Next to it was a food center where food and drinks could be
bought. People were all around that competition area, sitting around tables loaded with coffee, drinks and beer and food. Some of them
brought their shamas for competition, many were people like me who just want to listen to them singing and to enjoy their territorial displays.

I was intrigued and I decided to use my Creative Zen V Plus MP3 to record. That old Creative Muvo Slim MP3 that I used to record some
of Yingshiong songs gave up the ghost after a month with me in Saudi Arabia. I had wanted to claim money back on principle
until I read warnings that Muvo Slim must not be kept above 40C. Considering the temperature in shade in Riyadh was 55C, I guess I
was lucky Muvo lasted a month before its innards and brains cooked and keeled over.

I primarily wanted those recordings to play back to Yingshiong. There were 48 competitors there arranged in
a rectangular space. I was trying to figure where is the best place to do the recordings.
So I walked around the perimeter. At different point, you will be near different
groups of shamas and will hear different variations of songs. Even at the same point,
there will be pauses from different shamas in their display
and singing, resulting in yet different variations. All the different points
sounded different and sounded good. So I hit on the obvious solution
to do recordings at different points.

In walking around, I found the judges stand and noticed the score sheets on the table.
I saw printed on top was "Kaki Bukit CC Bird Club".
So obviously this competition was organised by the Kaki Bukit Community Center
Bird Club. There were a few people walking slowly below
the cages in the cordoned off area with clipboards and paper, pausing every so often,
with focused attention and walking on. This was the first
shama singing competition I been to so I have little clue as to what they focused on.

So I decided to do what I know to do. Which was to switch on the recording function on the MP3 player
and placed it on the ground at a corner. I then stood away and enjoyed the songs and their visual display and
had a ciggie. Then I went back for the MP3 player to turn it off and restart
recording at another point and walked to the back again. This caught the eyes of others there.
They were friendly and I told them I was recording the songs
of the shamas and we started chatting. They said the recordings will not be pure
as people were chatting and cars can be heard in the background.
I laughed and agreed telling them that not only their voices, but my voice will also be recorded too.
After all, I was not just recording shamas singing,
I was recording a shama competition. And in such competitions, the ambience, the chatting away would
always be part of the background. Now and then, you will hear the voices of people discussing the merits
of this shama over another shama. Much of the background conversation was in Hokkien,
a dialect of Chinese, or in Chinese, or in Singlish, a unique Singaporean mixture of Chinese, Hokkien
and English peppered with terms picked up in our National Service Army days.
You will hear in the recordings at times a rhythmatic clappings by an owner to encourage his shama. You might
also hear a 'whoo whoo whoo' call from an owner to spur his shama. You will hear also cars in background, and
clinking of beer glasses. A shama competition is an affirmation of life. You might even hear
me joking, talking and laughing away as well.

Non of them ever been into the Internet and had never knew I existed. I pulled out some photos I
printed, of Yingshiong and Tinkerbell. They were stunned
to see YS flying free in the apartment and landing on me and the
beauty of his wings spread out. And of Tinkerbell riding on bike with me and flying out
in the mountains and forests and fields in Taiwan. I told them I had no s
ecrets and wrote what I did and what I know from my own experiences and they
could all go and read and decide if they like to do that if they so choose.
I handed out Tinkerbell and Yingshiong calling cards to them. I moved about to
different places to do different recordings. So when those guys spoke to me, it
was a pleasure to know new friends and to talk to them. Again, those photos
were shown to them as it would be impossible for them to believe what I said without
those visual images of YS flying about the apartment and landing on me.

I was touched by their response to me. I told them I could not train their birds, as
only they can do that themselves. It was not just the training, it was most
important to gain the trust and the bond with their birds and that must be done by
them. One of them was very much into jambuls, another kind of songbird. I
had to sadly declined his offer to give me some of his prize jambuls with their
cages as he wanted to see how I train them. Another wanted me to take his
Greater sulphur crested cockatoo and was sorry that I declined as I will be leaving Singapore again.

I greeted an official looking guy who turned out to be Mr Noordin who of course, was one
of the Kaki Bukit CC Bird Club( referred to as KBCCBC) official. He enjoyed
the photos of YS and Tink. He kindly did his best to explain to me the competition. I suffered f
rom information overload as he went on to tell me how the shamas
were judged. The quality of the song, the intensity of the song, the purity of notes,
the warbling and variation, the stamina of the bird, the length of the tail, the power
of the display were all taken into account. He told me there were three judges, periodically
making their rounds and awarding scores. The lights were specially installed
for this competition. He told me the efforts that his KBCCBC Chairman Mr Lee and the
rest of the team put in behind the scene to bring this competition about. I looked
at the people there enjoying this competition and assured him all those efforts were good
and they should be proud of it and I appreciated this competition very much.
Mr Noordin was wonderful enough to take my recorder right into the center for one
of the recordings at my request.

Not all the shamas performed well. Perhaps their form was off that night. Perhaps their
proud owners entered them for the pleasure of entering the competition,
and giving pleasure to those that came to watch, listen and enjoy. There was one particular
shama that caught my eye. The tail was so short that at a glance
one might assume that to be a female. But the color and gloss was wonderful and clearly
a male. The territorial performance was vigorous and very alert.
The singing was very good and the owner must be very proud. Noordon earlier told me
that short tail shama came from Brunei. Enough of the shamas there
sang very well as you can hear from the recordings I made.

I stayed until the end of the competition. Mr Noordin introduced me to his KBCCBC
Chairman Mr Lee and I thanked him for the work his team put in for our pleasure. He
then introduced me to Dr Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim, the MP for Marine Parade GRC and his
team. They were rather surprised to see from my photos of YS and Tinkerbell
that I kept my birds a little bit differently from other people. I told them I enjoyed this
competition and will be writing on it for my friends here and around the world. Dr
Faisal laughed when I told him my website have visitors from around the world, and one
of the few places that Arabic speakers and Hebrew speakers meet in peace.


It was late when I got back. It was on the next day that I played those recordings on my laptop
very very softly as Yingshiong was out in the living room. Regretfully, the Zen
MP3 could not get the high notes giving scratchy sound as you can hear for yourself. I then
increased the volume and went out to see YS with expectation that YS will be singing in competition.
To my surprise, YS did not sing in response. I was worried if he was sick. But he was agitated
and flew about landing on places that he normally did not land on. He
flew into the kitchen and refused to come out. He was turning his head about flying and perching
and flying and perching. He then flew out of the kitchen to the living room
getting more agitated and flew into the bedroom. He was trying to locate where other shamas were.
Then he flew into the PC room. Instead of his usual perches, he perched
near the speakers. I tried to drive him off but he refused to leave, evading my hand and landing back again.

It then struck me that he was not going to sing, but he was looking for his rivals to kill. When
I played his recordings, he would sing back in response. Perhaps
he knew that those were his songs, and he knew the shama competitions were not his songs and
rivals. His earlier flying about was serious attempts to kill.

Then when I thought he was not singing, he burst out into territorial mode. I wrote before
that his territorial singing was so loud that I could hear him far away. But
this morning, he sang with intensity that was shocking to me and painful to my ears. He
went on and on in a terrifying display and attacked my small Creative speakers.
I drove him off the table and he continued in extremely loud singing until I was worried
for his throat. I switched off the sound to get him to stop his loud singing.

Eventually he quietened down. With bribes of millis and crickets, he was led out
of my PC room back into the living room before he returned to his flight room
at my cue.


Recordings of shama competition here

http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9/s...mpetition.html

[julieann]

Great pictures

[shanlung]

Julie,

Thank you.

Yuffie,

All have seen what I have done. There are photos
and videos to back them up despite all that you said.
Not just with Tinkerbell, but with Yingshiong too.

Not only are there more cats in Taiwan than in Singapore,
there are eagles, hawks, huge ravens as well.

Tinkerbell was with me for three years. Even more important,
she is looked after by Yu family for two years now. So what I
have done is replicable no matter how much you like to
deny it.

I wrote all that I know, for all that may like to go on this path
or who may just like to read about it. I like to watch
sky diving, surfing in monster waves even if I will never want
to do that.

To each their own.

You go on your chosen path in peace

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Tinkerbell - Interlude

Friends,

I will be flying to Taiwan on 31 Oct for a short
holiday. I will spend 10 days there to be with my
little girl again starting from 1 November.

I will record that daily into
http://shanlung.livejournal.com from 31 Oct

[shanlung]

Tinkerbell Interlude - The meeting

http://shanlung.livejournal.com/2006/11/01/

Other updates will be made naturally and when
possible, so do check on it when you are free


Shanlung

[Screech]

You are blessed with beautiful birds! And sweet ones too.. if only i could bring my birds everywhere, like you bring tinkerbell.. Good luck, and keep us updated!

[shanlung]

Screech

:-)

Thank you!

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Tinkerbell Interlude photoset and videos, and start of
next chapter of life


Hello to all my friends around the world,

The last couple of days were spend in collating the
photographs and videos
taken during the Tinkerbell Interlude, a period from
1st November to 8th November
when I was in Taiwan to be with Tinkerbell again.

I sort the photos to cover the day by day with
Tinkerbell.

The Livejournal entries now have the appropriate
photos in them that
better illustrate some of the events I wrote about.
The videos are
also embedded in the Livejournal entries.

You find that in

http://shanlung.livejournal.com/2006/11/


Tinkerbell flights were very weak at the beginning. Yu
treated her
too well, taking delicacies and tea to her. As a
result, she hardly
had to fly. She never made recall flights to him for a
long time. That
led to him not trying to let her fly. That was a sad
spiralling circle.
It took me just one morning to put right in my
"Retraining the trainer".

Tinkerbell needed to be reminded of the joy of flying,
and given the chance
to fly again. In the videos at Chiayi Park Confucious
temple, you can hear
clearly the heavy landings she made on me, none of
those feather soft landings
of before.

It was only a week later, that I trusted her with
longer flights at BanTienYen.
Look at the video where she flew at me, circled off
with the leash screaming from
the reel and her breaking off and returning to me.

The photosets can be seen here.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shanlung/sets/

You can also see the videos here.
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=shanlung

You should see that from bottom up starting from
Confucious temple flights.




Why I went to Taiwan for this short holiday can be
told now.
When I left Saudi Arabia, I went to Brisbane Australia
and accepted a 4 year contract
to work and live there. I came back to Singapore to do
the paper work to get that work
visa for Australia. I knew my time frame will be
short. So I had to see Tinkerbell
when I could.

It was lucky that I did so. Yesterday, I received news
that the visas for me and my wife Joy
were granted. I hoped to start there early next year.
That company then wanted me over asap.
We compromised in that I fly over to Brisbane on 26th
November starting 27th November 2006.

My wife will remain in Singapore for a few months
until the work and company find us mutually agreeable
for that long term. Then she will fly over and live
with me in Australia.

This started when I was working and living in Riyadh ,
Saudi Arabia. Then I read this BBC article
in June about the Russian tundra melting. We knew that
would happen. But I thought that to be a consequence
of global warming. That article then described the CO2
and methane trapped in the past to be coming
out now. So instead of the permafrost melting as a
consequence, that might well be a timebomb giving
us even less time in a world and society that we know.

I rather enjoy life with my wife NOW, than to make
lots of money in Riyadh for a future rather uncertain.
There were other reasons, but my preference is to
enjoy the time that is left to me and my wife. Working
and living
in Brisbane Australia will be much better than in
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia even if the pay is less.

Perhaps, what I wrote ten years back might make
interesting reading for you.
http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9/oldluddite.html

I will not argue if you think differently. In fact, I
hoped you are right, for the sake of my son
and your children, that we will have a lot more time
in the future. If true leaders are found and all
of us ready and able to accept the drastic changes in
our current lifestyles. Rather difficult isnt it?

That bring up what will happen to Yingshiong should
and when my wife joins me in Australia.
You note that I deliberately had to fly back to
Singapore from Taiwan as my wife flew to UK
to see her nieces.

By the way, Yingshiong is in the PC room with me. He
flew in to join me as I wrote this rather long letter.
If I ignored him too long, he would hover over my
head. So I do a few recalls for the chance to treat
him
with millis.

I love YS too, even if not at the level at the soul as
that with Tinkerbell.

Should me and my wife cannot look after YS, I will not
allow YS to be back into a round cage.
I had discussed with Taufik with the various
possibilities and he agreed with me.

Yingshiong might go into the Jurong Bird Park in the
waterfall aviary. This is the largest walk-in aviary
in the world. I have had discussions with the highest
level and given an in-principle approval for
Yingshiong.
There are 4 resident male shamas there and one or two
females among lots of other birds. It will
be a life and death struggle for Yingshiong. But I
think YS is a prime 4-5 years old. I believe he will
fight
and be dominant or at least carve out a space for
himself.

So if anyone go there in future, you might be hearing
Yingshiong singing up in the canopy of trees.

My friend BK offered Yingshiong a permanent place in
his huge aviary, and beautiful shama wife for him too.
But no one other than me , BK, and a few of his
friends will ever hear Yingshiong again. He will be
safe there,
pampered for the rest of his life.

Another option will be to release Yingshiong back into
the appropriate forest. This might have the risk that
he
is unable to integrate back into nature or capture by
other people to be kept in a cage again.

It is yet too early to decide now.


Warmest regards

Shanlung

[shanlung]

Goodbye to dragons


Hi folks,

While I might not have taken active part in your
forums, I do write on parrots. One series has been on
clipping wings that I extracted into my Livejournal
here.

http://shanlung.livejournal.com/65601.html

I was also fairly active in Wikipedia - African Grey
Parrot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Grey_Parrot
Of greater importance , will be the 'discussion' that
you all can go to when you click on the tab
'discussion' at the top or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:African_Grey_Parrot
You might like to go there to make this to be more
reflective and useful to all in the community.

Its been a long time I wrote to all since I came over
to Brisbane.
I disliked staying in hotel and I quickly got a place
on a 6 month lease to get out of that hotel. I am now
counting down the 3 months left to end of that lease
to get a house to stay in. Thats because I am not
allowed to have any creatures, furred or feathered. As
this place has no balcony either, I am frustrated by
calls of rainbow loris, pied magpies, SC2s that sang
in trees and ground and I not able to interact with
them. So much so that I even befriended the redback
under the steps of this leased apartment.

In office, I spend my lunch breaks by the side of a
creek. There were these 4 water dragons. Eventually I
gave them scraps and then I ended up buying kitty
kibbles to feed them. My wife came over a couple of
weeks last month and took some photos that you can see
in
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shimmer...7594547160392/

Without any other creatures, they became my lunchtime
friends, for three months. And in the last week, to
the stage that I was able to rub the big alpha queen
on her head. She kept the other three some distance
away.

Then starting from this day Monday, I was seconded to
a client and will be working with them on a big
project. That meant I will be at their office and no
longer going to my old office.
While thats exciting to me, I was sadden to say
goodbye to the dragons.


Warmest regards

Shanlung
http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9/

[ZoologyGirl]

Good to hear from you again Shanlung!

Those are some great pictures of the dragons, and the other pictures are just gorgeous as well.

Thanks for the update!

[Brock]

Shanlung, your stories, photos and huge amount of information is awe inspiring! I just read this forum thread today and was blown away by the testing and dedication you have with Tinkerbell and now YS - there is so much I've learned from you and will learn with the many things you've written.

Thank you so very much for sharing this with us.

[shanlung]

A heavy price is paid.

It hurt even with those dragons. How much you think it hurt
when I take YS into his next chapter and maybe never see him again.

You understand if I have any vacation, that time will be spend with Tink

[BirdieButts]

shanlung.

your story is amazing and almost brought tears to my eyes..
such divotion adn pation for your feathered friends... its unbelivable.

since i was a little girl i wished that i could have a bird that was loose that would come with me whereever i went...
Sadly, as i live in cadada where its way to cold here for 8 or so months of the year for most birds to be out.
someday when (if) i move to someplace warmer i woudl love to attept to do what you do.

Shanlung, you and yoru birds are my heros
you are an amazing wrighter.. adn i will be the first in line when you get a book published.

please keep us posted.. and i hoep to learn from you..