Thanks all!

LOL Julie he was probably thinking something like that. She was kinda picking at his hairs and he would turn around to look at her and I'd say "Tommy, be nice now," and he gave me that look I haven't seen Dawn do the tongue thing really, but she does close her eyes and kind of slowly roll her head around until it's almost upside down hehe. Then if I stop, she will kind of reach down and nibble my fingers or do a little pecking thing like "why did you stop?? Keep going!"

Kay, I really like Dusk's coloring as well. I have always liked the whiteface greys, so pretty. He's such a character too, but has never been one for head scratchies.

Poppy, I had an incident with Twilight recently that probably took years off of both my life and hers . She suddenly got frightened, I don't know what set her off but she flapped around the cage and I ran to see what was going on. Well she busted a new wing feather coming in.. you know what they call a bleeder? The new feathers still have blood in the quills. I had to do something I've never done, and it had to happen to the girl who is most uneasy around people. She's always been so bonded to Dusk.. Well I had to use a towel and get her, that terrified her more. Then I had to use tweezers to pluck that feather so that the bleeding would stop. She was ok after, but the poor thing was so terrified and I just hated doing that but it had to be done.

Rottieluver, preen is the term used for when birds groom themselves. They use their beaks to groom their feathers, and also spread a natural oil that makes their feathers water resistant. If you dribbled water on them, it would roll off their feathers at first. In the wild this protects them from getting drenched to the point that they can't fly in the rain and so on. It also straightens the feathers and makes sure they are in place. If you ever saw a bird with really messy feathers all over it, it's a good chance it's not a healthy bird because it isn't keeping itself preened. Hope that kind of explains it