Jules is a living alarm clock. Over the Holidays he let me sleep past over 9:30AM, but recently school's starting again and dad said that I should be adjusting my biological clock, to which my bird agreed. Today he woke me up at 8:30AM. Not only he knows that he should wake me sooner and when is sooner, he also knows progressive bio-clock adjustment. I know that this isn't his bio-clock doing Daylight Saving Mode because after waking me up he still naps at the usual times. He's napping on my shoulder right now. This bird should be a biology or psychology teacher/therapist.

Then again, I'm not sure if it's an eye-neck coordination thing or an intellect thing, but this other day, when my bird has a loose feather on his neck and I show it to him via a mirror, he'd try to remove it by rubbing his lower beak on me. But the feather's on his neck, not on his beak, so it doesn't come off. He sees in the mirror that it's still there, so he tries again, again only rubbing the chin on me. I get that he's trying to rub that side of his neck, and indeed the side is right, but the neck wasn't touching my body at all when he rubs like that. I suspect that his psychic body is shaped differently from his physical body and the psychic body is much bigger, thus getting a location paradox. Or he didn't know how non-puffy his feathered neck is once he is stretching it. Either way, that looked stupid.

Today I witnessed Jules passing the mirror test. We have suspected that he'd pass for sometimes, but I have never seen him pass. Usually before a mirror he does nothing but stare. Today he had a down feather on his beak and he didn't seem to know. Instead of forcibly remove it for him as usual, I showed him the mirror. He saw himself in it and immediately lowered his head to wipe the feather off his beak on my hand.

He also understands human languages and is at least bilingual in them.

Next I'm going to try test if he has psychic powers. If he doesn't he must still have sound related or time related superpower. Or some kind of power similar to a Laplace's demon.

Chewed and maybe half-digested bread, but fresh bread nonetheless. Even smells like fresh bread. I guess it shouldn't be eating bread.

(Unlike human vomit, bird vomit doesn't smell bad.)

My humans have a very poor sense of time. I often have to tell them it's time to do something. They spend hours looking into a glassy surface with moving patches of colours.

I just noticed why I liked the HGSS Rival so much. Gray eyes, red hair, tsundere, gets violent at first but then becomes a softy but still wants to fight... that's a parrot! -tomato'd-

I just learned that the 軒轅劍 series has a parrot as character. Not a humanoid parrot, but a bird-shaped parrot. And a country of parrots. Intelligent, proud parrots. Like, instead of elves they have parrots. The recurring parrot character, 疾鹏, is a general that controls a bronze mecha.

Where can I find that game? It's made in Taiwan apparently.

Edit: There's another named parrot character named 多鵬. Cute sunny head~

I love using Bread Art to reduce stress without wasting bread.
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Made an icon out of one of the birds from the chibi Itsuki pic~