Growth on steroids

Raising a baby bird is like watching growing up in fast forward.  Every day there are such big changes. Mortimer is  now stretching out his wings and starting to practice flapping them as well.  This meant he  needed another upgrade to his home and he is now in a padded container with some branches for perching.  We have only see him go up once on the branch but hope he may start to use it more.  We have also stopped feeding Mortimer by hand and now just leave the cut up meat on a small Tupperware top.  He picks at it and has figured out how to hold the bigger pieces with those taloned feet.  We have also put in several live prey - small lizards and grasshoppers - and watched as he tracks and captures and devours.  Of course we did give him the advantage by removing the wings from the grasshoppers and holding on to the lizards till he had them in his grips...as all good parents do ;)!!

A big new home

Caught that grasshopper!

Stretch and flap

We love this little guy!!