Today's birds included:
- Lola - female U2 - age unknown - adoptable
- Bisbee - male White Capped Pionus - 4 years old - adoptable
- Cobalt - male BH Pionus - 4 years old - alumnus
- Keowa - female Green Cheek Conure - 9 years old - adoptable
- Burt - male Goffins - 25 years old - alumnus
- Sam - male CAG - 4 years old - volunteer's bird
I know we've been saying this pretty much every day, but Wednesday was another awesome day at the Fair. The weather was perfect and the crowd was large. We sold lots of toys and bird-related articles today. The proceeds from all sales directly benefit the birds at the Center. We talked to many, many people and were able to help some with behavioral problems with their birds.
Our presentations today revolved again around abuse/neglect cases with Lola and Bisbee, the pet pros and cons of pionus, plucking with Burt, and one of our volunteers gave a little talk on Sam and how CARE helped teach her how to work with some of his phobias. Again we had good crowds and were able to speak to many people.
Again, our wood cutter/drillers came to help us at the booth - they are on vacation this week and also came to help us last Sunday. It is a pleasure to have them come down and help us out - they have pionus at home, so can talk to people about what it's like to have one as a pet.
We have had several emails coming in from people who saw us at the Fair wanting to volunteer. Our Volunteer Coordinator is handling those inquiries, and we are excited about that! This is great, as we are always in need of volunteers. If you are reading this and have five hours of time a month (or more) to spare, we'd love to have you come and volunteer. No bird experience is necessary; we will train you.
More tomorrow -- four more days for this year's State Fair!
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