Our family bought an african grey parrot a couple years ago and it has become quite the talker. Hundreds of words and understandings. Well, with this being my first year hitting the woods for turkeys I have been driving everyone nuts with, cuts, yelps, purrs and gobbles.

I realized tonight that I may be doing it too much in my home. I have out a slate and a box, sitting on the couch calling away, the bird is quiet. I stop calling and in a mirrored sound I hear our parrot start to cut away and then breaks into a purr.

I am an irritatator in our home and somewhat an instegator and now I am extremely pleased that our beloved parrot can call away when I am at work and drive my wife nuts LMAO !! Just thought I'd share this with all of you.

Heck, if the parrot gets good enough to do these calls on command, guess who will be on my shoulder come season!!!

I wouldn't be so worried if it was gobbling back at you.

It's a smart bird. I am sure I can teach it to do that LOL... That would be a good one!

Thats pretty smart of you to teach your parrot to call for you but can youreally trust it enough to stay with and not fly off once you take him out in the woods.
I feel kinda sad knowing I've been replaced by a parrot

LMAO RD....... You aint been replaced, He'll call for both of us. As far as flying off we have his wings clipped in the spring so when the kids are using the doors the way kids do, always open, the bird doesn't get any ideas.

Of course my luck.... Bird will be cutting away and all of a sudden in Al Pacinos voice we'll here "How ya doin?" LOL

With murphy's law I wouldn't doubt itL O L

Talk about parrots? Ha!, there was an old lady that lived down the street from us that taught herparrot to quote every book in the Bible.....and one morning about 2:00am a burglar crawls in through a window in the living room where the parrot always stayed at night in total darknessand Say's....ACT'S 3:57and the burglar drops to the floor face down with his hands on top of his head....saying, please lady don't Shoot, don't Shoot please and not moving a mussel.

Well, the old lady heard voices in the living from her bedroom and dials 911. They told her to be quite and they would be there in a few minutes. In about 7 or 8 minutes the police breaks down the front door and the burglar is laying face down and they cuffed him and stood him to his feet. The officer who had him by the arm asked him how come he was laying face down on the floor?.......His reply was......Man, she told me she had anAXE and a .357.........End of Story!

That was funny Reb , thanks for sharing

My wife would teach it to say "RUN, TURKEY, RUN!!!" when I wasn't around, then smile and roll over as I walked out the door with him.[&:]

Funny story Reb!!! Here's one for ya barefoot! My wife says I'm mean for shooting poor little deer, as she's chewin ona backstrap, anyways. A few years ago I had been seeing a small herd of deer out behind her gma's house so I set up about 3 acres back, still being able to see the house and hear the dog. This was during the Nascar Chase races and I am a Jr. fan. I'm in my tree 20-30 minutes left of light and my wife is on the back porch screaming to me that Jr. won the race LOL. I watched my own version of the race as 3 whitetails hauled it out of there. I couldn't help but to laugh and climb down. So, Jr won and my wife saved a deer for a day, got a 6 point the next day out of that tree.