 Hello my fellow sniffers and marlings my name is Marlene McCohen and this is Leo and this is Jersey and we want to welcome you back to my channel Jersey just literally picked up my hand and demanded that I give her a head scratch oh did you hear that small little helicopter well that was none other than my Picasso we're in for it today some good old bird crazy fun today I thought we would go back to old school style and I would give you an update on what it's like to live with my little Leo here now for those of you who are just tuning in let me give you a little bit of backstory yes stop okay well the first thing you need to know is he's a bully yeah okay this is great though we're getting Jersey in a video I have a lot of things to share with you guys first of all I've been doing a lot of vlog style videos and I'm really enjoying those and I hope you guys are too sometimes it's nice to come back here and just give you some updates talk to you guys see how things are going so so here he is Leo for those of you who don't know YouTube actually got me Leo well my fans all pulled together and decided that I should have this wonderful beautiful bird even though I already had five large parrots and we got a lot to talk about about Leo now if you're interested in my first video with Leo I put the link below now although I said I already had five birds I gotta tell you about this guy the first thing I should tell you about is that he is the perfect six bird to a flock why do I say that because I swear five birds would have been at my limit but to have six I would need to have a very special kind of calm beautiful sweet personality and that's exactly what I have first of all let's talk about Leo's plucking those of you who know the Leo story you know that Leo has a little tiny bit of a plucking problem especially in his back they told me at the store that I got him from that in fact he was so plucked they didn't realize that he even had these yellow feathers here coming in his owner died previously so he was probably very upset about that and he still gets a little bit stressed sometimes so although he does it a lot less I do catch him wanting to pluck when I am with the other birds like he's getting nervous right now or when I'm talking to someone else which is a habit that we really got to work on through socialization and making him know that it's okay and teaching him how to integrate with the rest of the flock so as far as this plucking I think there's a lot of things that we can do for improvement I've been giving him his avicom and featherific and I have noticed some improvements but as you see he gets very jealous let's give you a recap in the life of Leo when Leo came home from the beginning he was very very quiet he basically didn't say anything he also didn't really move he loved to be on me he loved to cuddle he loved head scratches he was open to people touching him especially women he's okay with men holding him but they don't really have some of the same rights that women do when they approach him but nobody has the same rights that little girls do Leo loves little girls I would love to know in his back story what it is with little girls now I mentioned that Leo has been very very quiet well Leo doesn't really talk I haven't heard him say anything but then again I kind of have do you guys remember the video I made on the like app where I was able to get some footage of Leo talking kind of arguing but I was upstairs first thing that I ever heard Leo do and he started doing it when I was out of the room sometimes birds like to practice what they know or hide what they know but they want to vocalize but they want to do it when you're not there one thing that really activates this in Leo is actually a constant noise I'm kind of weird and OCD and addicted to hairdryers so I just go turn on my hairdryer and hang out with it but a lot of the times if I leave it on and Leo can't see me that's when he starts talking and he also likes to whistle I do believe that Leo can be a great talker but he just hasn't shown it to me yet what I honestly think from having birds for a very long time about Leo is that he's very shy I think he will definitely grow into a bird that does a lot more and says a lot more than he shows right now but it's possible that it was very traumatic for him because as you could see he's so loving so whoever had him before had to have taken really good care of him so I'm assuming the death of his owner and companion really took a toll on him and that's why he's so quiet right now he appears to be a dream bird like even my mom adores him because he just sits Leo is the type of bird that if I forgot to lock the cage or left him on a stand and came back in four hours Leo would be in the same spot he doesn't damage things he doesn't chew things in fact he doesn't even play with toys I can't hand Leo anything and watch him play with it it's kind of a shame because I want him to be busy and able to entertain himself and like to forage but he's just not interested in anything as of yet I have seen him take some initiative to play with things like pens and if he does pick something up that I really kind of don't want him to pick up but if it's not dangerous I will let him because I just want to see where he's going with it I want to encourage him to get out of his comfort zone overall I would say that Leo's a very shy bird but he's also becoming very very possessive so before where he was kind of friendly to everybody else now he's very protective over me Leo and I spend a lot of time alone together because as you know Leo has been in sort of like a quarantine he's good to go now he doesn't have to be at it but he doesn't really go into the Avery with the rest of the birds which is what I call their preschool or daycare so he spends a lot of alone time with me hanging out making videos pretty much a working bird he's really good at making review videos with me because he just sits and chills and he really is on his best behaviors and therefore with all this alone time he's becoming very possessive what I need to be doing to get him out of that is socializing him more so most of the day I'm just here and there's no one to really socialize with him but every time someone comes over I do make sure that Leo gets some time with them even if it's a guy and someone like my dad I let Leo just sit on their lap I say don't be too invasive with Leo you don't want to make him angry because after all you are a guy but just let him sit there and show him that sitting on strangers is okay actually not strangers but just somebody else it's part of socialization sometimes if you want to socialize a bird you want to make sure that the other person knows that they don't have to touch the bird or come at the bird or try to get a head scratch to be satisfied the bird can just sit on somebody's knee while they're on their phone or hanging out that's what I do with Leo when my dad is in town and when my brother comes into town that's probably what I'm gonna do when my sister comes in I make sure that they actively have a lot of alone time because my sister just loves Leo but Harry my sister's dog is very jealous of him so life so far has been pretty easy and pretty chill he loves love as you could see I'm in love with his big head if you saw me take Leo to Bird Mart he is the best he's basically to little girls what Jersey is to guys which is amazing right Jersey Jersey do you know you're in a video so I basically have these two birds to go with me and meet you guys when you're able to come to my meet and greets then you can definitely meet Leo and Jersey so it's been really cool I have introduced Leo to some little girls ever since Bird Mart and he is crazy man like he does not want to get off of them I put Leo on my niece so he gets nervous he just wants to play let him come that's it for your hand down there you go feels good no and then I tried to take him off and he was so angry I was like wow because for Leo not to come to me back to the person that he loves means that he really enjoys where he is it's like he's a bird for kids but I want to tell you guys the craziest thing when we were doing that like app video my mom was babysitting if you'll remember Tracy's baby Bella when I was editing the video late at night my mom came in with Bella and Leo's body language showed that he was dying to go be next to Bella but Bella's not a little girl she's a baby so I don't know what Leo's intentions are so I told my mom she basically shouldn't be in the room with the baby so my mom left and that was that when I went out of town I got a video text from Tracy and my sister and in the video Leo was playing with Bella and I'm like what are you guys doing basically my sister was on the scene and they were all playing and they had nothing but time to focus on the situation and we found out that Leo really likes Bella and he was fine with her but I didn't know if he was just next to her I had no idea what the situation was so the other day after I came back my friend Tracy came to visit and she came with her baby and when she entered the house with Bella Leo made the exact noise that he does when he sees Rocky which by the way for those of you who haven't been following the Leo story he loves my macaw Rocky and he did that when he saw Bella so I was like oh man so anyway I'm sitting down with Tracy and we're having like girl chat and it's a Saturday and then suddenly George comes in and he goes where's Leo and I go in his cage he goes no he isn't you're lying he's underneath the covers because I had like blankets over me and George just assumed that I was kind of like hoarding Leo under there to get some cuddles but I wasn't and I'm like no I'm not stop joking with me he's like Leo's not in the cage Leo doesn't go anywhere Leo stays put and then I'm like yeah just look harder cuz you know how men are no offense to anybody but they just like don't see things in front of them and for him to even notice that Leo was missing being as quiet as he is I was pretty surprised like where's Leo gonna go Leo has practically never went on the floor by himself except when I come home and then George goes oh my god there he is and what was he doing he was climbing up the couch via my phone charger on his way to override Tracy and take his place next to Bella so since I had nothing but time to monitor the situation over comes Leo marching over to Bella and I was like oh my god oh my god don't let him next to her and Tracy goes no it's okay and I'm like what do you mean she's like don't worry watch and Leo like ever so gently like touched her toes and then she kind of pet him she's like eight months old she kind of pet him and I guided her I held her hand and next thing you know she's petting him she understands and he's so gentle and I'm like wow so then I bring him next to me and he's kind of upset about it he wants to be next to the baby and he's like touching her toes and she's smiling and she loves it she loves birds because she's a little Leo and she was supposed to be born on my birthday so anyway she's gonna be a bird lover now Leo's gonna go down and distract Picasso who's actually sleeping and bully Jersey that's another thing that we got to talk about reminds me anyway so Leo just comes over and hangs out with Bella and a little while later Bella starts crying and Leo goes over and gets mad at Tracy he's very protective he doesn't want Tracy to go next to Bella so next thing it's me Bella and Leo hanging out and Bella's hungry so she needs a bottle but Leo doesn't want Tracy to do it he wants me to do it so next thing you know I'm feeding Bella with Leo and Leo's ever so happy like in between me Bella and the bottle and there I am being all maternal and stuff because Leo likes babies it's the weirdest thing so I think that is just unbelievable and amazing like what bird has a thing for babies and little girls yeah like why do you have a thing for babies and little girls next thing about Leo is Leo within the flock because I hang out with Leo all day and I mentioned he's possessive over me he is like anti-possessive over the rest of the birds he does not want them involved in my life he is not afraid to go bully the birds but when he tries to bully Vinny it's kind of the funniest thing when they're on top of the shower and Leo goes to bully Vinny the Vinny's like what what you trying to do and then Leo goes oh okay that's not gonna work yeah nevermind um I'll just sit here so they do integrate in everything because obviously I hang out with all of them at the same time like right now this is a very normal situation for us but Leo just really is a little bully I still see a feather on me in the corner of my eye Leo likes to whistle I have heard him do a lot of different things lately that I hadn't heard him do before so I do realize that he has a little bit of creativity in his whistling vocabulary and I'm looking forward to hearing a lot of new things as far as him taking initiatives like he did when he wanted to come see Bella and leaving the kitchen to come into the living room which I call a development in birds it's a good thing and a bad thing developments mean that the bird is getting less shy they're learning how to navigate the house they're feeling more comfortable but it's a bad thing because it's when you gotta start watching out for them and all the trouble that they cause especially if you have more than one bird but I'm always proud of what I call developments and I believe that Leo being a six bird is developing a little bit slowly but but of course in a shy manner not in a slow manner of capability he's very capable so for example if you have only one bird you're going to find out that it's so smart and responsive and entertaining and every bird that you get after that also has all those capabilities but the work that you were able to put into the first bird when he was alone will really really make a difference and show through especially with birds like African greys so that's just something to note but of course every bird has its own personality and can shine and grow and I'm just waiting for Leo to have that day in that moment he is very communicative though right now he's tapping on a water bottle telling me that he's thirsty birds are very aware of liquids so if you ever see your bird touching a bottle chances are that he's thirsty you want to come here and get some Picasso came to because Picasso is thirsty okay first we'll give Leo some water do you want some water want some water no are you mad you're mad at Leo that's how Leo indicated he wanted water very smart nice development able to drink from the bottle let's talk about Leo and George Leo is a really good bird so I can put him on anybody if somebody wants to hold him I can be confident that he's not going to bite but if you make the wrong approach with Leo like how some people do when they move fast around the bird or they're like oh hey and go above the head then Leo doesn't really appreciate that approach is everything with Leo so him and George get along fine but he really makes it obvious that he loves me the most and that's not all that's fun for George but he definitely keeps trying he loves food this bird is extremely food driven even in all his silence you can tell when he wants something that you're eating he makes the cutest little beeping like squeaking noises like you can hear them right now even if you're eating far away he'll start doing this as if to say are you coming to give me some food and of course I always include him he can eat like there's no tomorrow it's unbelievable actually he's kind of like his own burrito look at him uh look you see how he is he doesn't want anybody else next to his mommy but I love them and I love you but my other birds they don't care they know that they have a very secure position within the family as you could see Jersey is not faced Picasso's not really faced right you're not faced there he goes he's gonna go up the shoulder and he's gonna try to bully Picasso and Picasso's gonna be like that's nice for you buddy but I'm here so that's kind of the dynamic of Leo's relationships see now he's kind of fluffed his feathers which means he's kind of about to give up and then he's gonna pipe his little head down yeah and chill out right baby got a little nervous overall I am just having the best time with Leo I find him to be very therapeutic his feathers are so beautiful and soft he's a gorgeous bird as you guys will see from my Instagram I'm kind of obsessed with taking pictures of him I don't know I ended up with all these birds in this video but I'm really happy that they're behaving right baby you're okay you're okay mommy loves you just as much it's very important to have a long time with all birds just to de-stress them a little bit make them feel like they're number one right Jersey yeah so those two that's what they do it never gets too serious Picasso's not scared of anything it's really funny overall I would say Leo is just very very therapeutic relaxing and a perfect sixth bird with that being said there is probably no perfect seventh bird because Leo has taken the cake on that one that is all guys I hope you enjoyed this Leo update I had so much fun telling you guys all about his little personality and quirks and follow me on Instagram and Twitter at Marlene McCohen where you can see these guys all day and what they are up to I love you guys so much