Anna does not like mornings

[Barcann]

Hi everyone
Do any of you have a too that is aggressive in the mornings. I basically can do anything with Anna. She is very sweet with me.
But not in the mornings!
She flies aggressively towards me when I try to open the door to her aviary.
It is even difficult to feed her through the small door where her feeding tray is. She flies aggressively there too, flapping her wings. Sometimes we can't give her food or water until close to noon.
We clean her aviary on Sundays, so I remove her from the aviary and put her in the smaller cage. She likes the small cage because it is closer to the house and she can see everything we do.
This morning I couldn't get near her. I tempted her with treats. She wouldn't
budge.
I scratched her head. She liked that. ..did not attack but would not come to me.
whenever I enter her aviary she always comes to me, bu not in the mornings.
This is relatively recent behavior. She used to do it once in awhile but now it is every morning.
By mid day into the afternoon she is her usual sweet self.
Does anyone have any insight to her behavior and any advice for how to handle it?
Thanks in advance.

 

[Clueless]

MC is an Amazon but hates mornings. If he doesn't wake up slowly, he will charge me when I'm at his food door.

 

[CrazyBirdChick]

I think I remember something about one of @iamwhoiam's birds not being a morning bird. But I can't remember if it was her Amazon or cockatoo. So it's not that uncommon

 

[cassiesdad]

Milton is a grump in the mornings...during the summer. Our schedule is everyone gets uncovered at 6:30 AM...sharp...the sun has already been up for some time, of course. Milty figures that when the sun comes up...it's breakfast time...when he HAS to wait, he gets antsy and grumpy.
The opposite is true in the winter, when the sun doesn't come up until almost 8 o'clock...Milt is very lethargic at 6:30...and doesn't really get going until he starts to see it getting brighter....so we just uncover him and let him be.

The advantages of a regular schedule far outweigh letting Milty sleep in in the winter and wake up earlier in the summer...

 

[Nancy B]

Fred has to see sunshine. He's very low key on cloudy rainy days, in the morning, it depends how early. If I go to work for 5am, I don't bother him until I get home in the early afternoon. If I have to go to work for 7, and I try to give him fresh water and food, I get hissed at. He doesn't like to be bothered before 10am. But we're night owls, we work days and Fred comes out when one of us gets home, and he goes to bed between 8:30-9:30, like clockwork. We have a routine that works for us. Today and Wednesday I am home all day, so he'll come out about 10, and be out all day playing around the house. He's a good boy, he only sits on his furniture and toys in parts of the house where he goes. He also knows which blanket is his on the back of the sofa, and he sits on that. He's excellent.

 

[CrazyBirdChick]

Fred has to see sunshine. He's very low key on cloudy rainy days, in the morning, it depends how early. If I go to work for 5am, I don't bother him until I get home in the early afternoon. If I have to go to work for 7, and I try to give him fresh water and food, I get hissed at. He doesn't like to be bothered before 10am. But we're night owls, we work days and Fred comes out when one of us gets home, and he goes to bed between 8:30-9:30, like clockwork. We have a routine that works for us. Today and Wednesday I am home all day, so he'll come out about 10, and be out all day playing around the house. He's a good boy, he only sits on his furniture and toys in parts of the house where he goes. He also knows which blanket is his on the back of the sofa, and he sits on that. He's excellent.

Wow! He's like a saint cockatoo!

 

[Nancy B]

Wow! He's like a saint cockatoo!

Lol I don't know about that, he's stubborn as he$$ lol

 

[Barcann]

I am loving all your comments. Our birds sure have their own personalities don't they?
so I guess we do it Anna's way LOL
Thanks everyone

 

[Clueless]

I am loving all your comments. Our birds sure have their own personalities don't they?
so I guess we do it Anna's way LOL
Thanks everyone

They are all individuals. Just like humans!

 

[Clueless]

@Barcann

You guys doing okay?

 

[faislaq]

Good or bad, I'm always excited for your updates.

 

[Nancy B]

How are you all doing? Did the hurricane bother your area at all? Been thinking about you!

 

[Clueless]

How are you all doing? Did the hurricane bother your area at all? Been thinking about you!

Me too!!!!

 

[Wthensler]

Both of our birds come and go by the daylight. Bo, our Amazon, is awake at the crack of dawn and is ready for breakfast.

Miss Coco (M2), is not a morning girl, but not aggressive at all. She just sort of watches out of her cage, still shaking off the night’s sleep.

At the end of the day, once it starts getting dark, both are ready for nite nite.

That’s why I like winters better!