@Bokkapooh and
@JLcribber I had a question for the both of you since my visit to Washington. Do you adjust the bed time for your birds in the winter with the changing if the sunset since it's so early in the afternoon or just continue to keep them on the same schedule even with it being so dark out at 350 in the afternoon?
John, is actually not in WA, but Alberta CA, wherever that may be. I just know its up north.
I think they are dark earlier but, because of all the SNOW on the ground its like daylight at night
Come winter (late fall really), my birds adjust themselves to the daylight themselves. They WANT to go to bed at 7pm. 630PM and now 6pm. A few times they wanted to go to bed at 5:30PM and well I let them. They let me know this by screaming and if I do not attend to them, they will begin to fight eachother or claw their way back into their cages (I shut and lock cages when they are out) and it becomes a nightmare
However, I get my birds up around 4AM so they do not have more than 12 hours of complete darkness. Although its only for an hour and a half and then the lights turn off again at 5:30 and they rest/snooze/nap/play in the dark
until the sun is naturally up, whenever that may be. Probably...7:30 or 8AM? I dont know.
This schedule has worked for me since I was 12 when I only had sparrows, finches and budgies.
Summer time is when things get tricky as its daylight out until 9pm and the birds want to be UP. And then daylight again at 5AM and the birds are up. Its hard to keep things dark, even with those dark curtains I use in the summer to try and get my birds to be at 8PM. They get aggressive if they do not get their sleep.