Your Hair Is Such A Bird's Nest!

Have you ever heard of the expression "Your hair is such a rat's nest"? Growing up it was a term used alot by my grandmother to describe the knots that I would get in  my hair.  I did brush my long hair daily, just not always as good as I should have.  I hated those knots!

Well, our daughter had to take that expression to a whole new level with a little help from Rebel.  Rebel was one of our parrotlets. He had a very unusual habit.  He enjoyed being out of his cage and socializing with Darling and us.  When Rebel would want to bond with one of us, he would come to our shoulder. Once there he would slowly work his way up until he was sitting on top of your head. Of course, even in that Rebel had to be a rebel in how he accomplished that.  First he would sneak under your hair and start nuzzling your ear.  As soon as he was sure that you weren't going to do anything he would begin the climb under your hair.  Rebel would use his beak to grab sections of your hair and use them as a rope climber would.  Periodically, Rebel would peek out to see how much progress he had made.  When he got to the top, he'd come out from under your hair and just sit there.  The longest any of us tolerated him on our head was an hour. (I was in the middle of an excellent book.)

We would tease our daughter by saying, "Your hair is such a bird's nest" because of his second habit.  When Rebel got tired or overloaded but refused to go into his cage, he would go over to our daughter.  She has beautiful long, curly hair that she usually has pulled back into a half bun, halfpony tail. Rebel loved this hairstyle.  Instead of climbing to the top of her head, he would work his way to the back. Once there he would work his way into the very center of it.  Because of the thickness of her hair he could totally disappear in it.  Sometimes when she walked by we'd just see him barely peaking out.