Okay, this is how buggy I am about Clyde -- I love the way he smells. If he'd let me, I'd snuggle my face into him and just breathe. He will let me snuggle, but only to a certain degree. Tell me I'm not the only one.

Oh my gosh! Too funny! We were just talking about this a few months ago...
I think we were going to call us the BSANON... Birdie sniffer annonymous .... I can't remember what we called it but most of us are guilty of sniffing our quakers

You are NOT the only one.
I am that way with Sunny (my conure) and Jay Jay (my quaker)

Sunny loves it the most and he likes it when I put my nose in his feathers and breathe. He actually likes
the warmth that it gives him and he even goes to sleep sometimes. I love the way Sunny smells and he is
very clean as he gets showers with me almost every day and demands them. (He is a GQ bird, ha ha)

I am also working with Jay Jay (only 9 weeks old now) and he is starting to like that cuddling. I teach them
to cuddle because I woudn't have it any other way. Jay Jay is a bit nippier and more active at his young age
so he is learning to settle down and just relax sometimes. But very different from Sunny.

However, Sunny, he is my laid back cool bird that loves to cuddle. He likes to put his back up against my
neck and cheek and lean back and go to sleep. this is his favorite time and he would sit for hours and do this
if I let him. One more thing, he WILL NOT POOP on me and NEVER has. he is amazing. he lets me know
when he is ready to poop and I can put him down and have him poop on command and put him back on my shoulder.

Jay Jay (my quaker) is a pooper. Although he is much better and has not pooped on me in a couple of weeks, but as soon
as I give him to my husband, he poops on him first thing. What is up with that?

By the way Jay Jay learned 2 tricks today. He is talking already and quick to learn. He learned how to give me five
and I am starting the WAVE trick. SO far so good, he is picking up on it very quickly.

Getting way off track, but I love the way they smell and they love me sticking my face and nose in their feathers.
SO YOU ARE NOT ALONE! Right there with ya!

haha nope you are not alone... I know there are SEVERAL members on here that love to sniff their little fids I being one of them!

Kiwi leans into his snuggles when we give him scritches with our hands and will snuggle up under my chin.. how can we not love em? lol

Its such a hard smell to describe! Yoshi has a soft musty feathery smell.... My sun conure smelled sweeter... like fruit almost. XD

:: raising hand ::

i sniff my birds too i also tell him how good he smells. i think he thinks i'm a freak.

kris

I'm very relieved. Since Clyde started letting me kiss him on the head or back occasionally, if he's in a good mood, I've been thinking I must be nuts. He probably thinks so, too. I always snuggled my dogs, but, well, let's face it, dog isn't always a pleasant smell. I love 'em, so I don't care if they're stinky and I nuzzle anyway, but I never thought about how a birdy smells until Clyde took over my life. Tonight he was very snuggly and got under my chin and let me nuzzle quite a bit. I must have been a very good girl today.

Okay, how did you teach Jay Jay to give you five, and what is the wave trick? I saw Willie doing "shake hands" on one of Buddy's vids and tried in vain to get Clyde to understand what I wanted him to do, but in his little head, when he puts out a foot, a finger better be under it so he can climb aboard. None of this "shaking hands" stuff for him when there's a finger to be sat upon. Yes, HE trains ME.

As for the pooping, I don't know what to tell you. Clyde poops on me constantly. Shout is my new best friend. He will occasionally give me enough warning so I can attempt to hold him away from me but he usually hits me. I've resigned myself to being his personal poop deck and luckily, it comes right out of t-shirts, which is what I usually have on. I've decided that pooping on their person must be the way parrots prove their love. Or maybe their ownership. Maybe it's like my basset whizzing on every blade of grass when we take walks. MINE! MINE! MINE!

Me too

I'm very lucky with Bijou, his favourite place on me in at an angle under my chin, so I can snuggle into the back of his neck and have a good old sniff of him, he also loves the kisses he gets there as well and will move his head round with his eyes half closed, as if he's enjoying it as much as me

hello my name is nikki and i am a bird sniffer!
I love love love the way they smell..and its funny because i had elliot first and loved his smell and when we got spree i didnt like her smell...maybe she had to get rid of the house smell she was in before or maybe i was still learning to love her...either way i smell both birds now and although they are different..i love each the same

Quakers have a very distinct smell. I remembered the smell the moment I first cuddled Tobey. It can be addictive, like the new baby, or new car smell. LOL Some of us just prefer the birdie smell.

Lisa & Tobey

heheheheheheh

so many of us are bird sniffers!!! this subject comes up every so often and you would be surprised how many of us will admit to sniffing our birds!! LOLOLOL

YOU ARE NOT ALONE!!!

God forbid, but if I went blind I could tell each one of the fids by their smell. Aren't we a blessed bunch? If you have more than one fid, notice that their voices are different just as their personalities are.

Lee Ellen

Count me in as a bird sniffer too! I especially love to sniff Truman after he's a nice shower and has dried off and preened. That fresh birdie smell is great.

Well ---- With just one lesson -- I put him on a training perch in another room and said "give me 5" and when he put out his foot, I lowered my finger some so that he would not put his weight on it and pulled it back (as to not let him fall at the same time) and said "good boy" and rewarded him with a cheerio.
I just kept repeating the process a few times. And now, he knows to just tap and pull back. He seemed to just get it.

As for the wave --- We are having trouble with that one today. I hold my hand up in front of him as to wave but low enough that he starts trying to step up but high enough so that he picks his foot high up. I pull back and say "good boy" and reward him. However, this one is a little harder because
of the way I hold my hand to wave basically. He is having more difficulty with this one but he is getting there.

Good luck. He basically responds to the fact that repitition and knowing the cheerio is there, he understands what he is supposed to do based on the command. However, if I don't say the same words the same, it confuses him so this is important.

The first thing I do every morning when I get Kiwi out of his sleep cage is smoosh my face into his neck. He starts making kiss noises and I make them back. (It does sound like I am a little crazy now that I am reading that!!) I had to get use to his smell because we had a tiel first and they smell way different. Now I love it and my kids make fun of me for sniffing a bird...

lol, yep Casey smells too, it's definitely a cute smell! I personally find that all birds have a similar smell, but then again I'm not smelling multiple species of birds everyday! When I go into my friends house (she has a bizillion different species... okay not a bizillion but too many to list! ) it smells a lot like Casey and she doesn't even have any Quakers. But I guess there are variations of smells between the different species but maybe they all stem from a similar 'bird smell'.

When Casey is wet I think she smells like a wet dog!

On a side note, Casey is really good at the waving trick... it was really easy to teach and she picked up on it really quickly. I just tapped her foot with my thumb then when she lifted up her foot I waved my hand with two fingers and said 'wave!' now she'll wave randomly and yell "Wave, Wave, Wave!!" When I go out of the house and have to put her in her cage I'll just say I'll be right back and I'll wave then she'll wave and yell "buh bye!" Sorry that wasn't on topic!

That is so funny!! I got to snuggle with my Bing for the first time today. And I noticed this really strong smell. It was an accident. I never thought of smelling a bird before. I just kinda breathed in at the same time I was giving him a kiss. He smelled like he had just taken a shower and used a shampoo or soap. He was very sweet smelling. I was very surprised by this. I had to take a second sniff just to be sure. He has a very pleasant fragrance! In can't wait to smell my Frank now!!

Guilty of sniffing, that's me. I bury my nose at the nap of his neck and breath in really deep. Sammy looks at me, and I say "that's right, you caught me, I am sniffing again!" I just can't get enough... I know he must think I am crazy,, but he just gives me kisses and goes about his business!

One of these days I'm sure Isis will surprise me with a 'mmmmmm you shmell good' (yes i say shmell to him ) because I'm always sniffing him!

That is so funny -- the first day I had Boncuk home I noticed his smell and was worried that I wouldn't get used to it. Now if I dont nuzzle him every day I miss his beautiful scent!! Definitely an acquired taste, but I LOVE IT.

Has anyone ever noticed that they smell like whatever they have eaten. The first time Tubby ate coconut, he smelled like coconut.
Lee Ellen

HAAAAHAAAA

Milo says smells so good. I've said it so !!!! LOL I love it. What a great life.

I tried just sniffing Clyde and letting my breath go in and out on his back and he said "HUH????" I don't think he disliked it; he was just surprised. He's decided in the last couple of days to let me nuzzle his back so I'm taking full advantage.