birdlady91
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Hello everyone 
I've been having a lot of fun with my yellow sided baby gcc, Leo. He is getting more socialized, playing, eating, coming out of the cage on his own, beak grinding every night . One of my biggest concerns, though, is that he freaks out every night before bed. His cage is in my room. Every time I cover him at night, he starts screaming and freaking out. If it were just screaming I could try and ignore it but what he does scares me into uncovering the cage and making sure he's okay....Every night when he is covered he starts hanging and climbing all around the walls of his cage, screaming and furiously flapping his wings (it almost sounds like they bang against the cage walls when he does it). When he screams during this time he is screaming bloody murder. It literally sounds like he's being tortured the way he screams lol. It makes me run to his cage to make sure he is okay. The flapping wings is really what gets to me! It scares me so much and leaves me no choice but to check on him. Eventually after 2-3 rounds of this he starts to fall asleep and grinds his beak while giving out the occasional grumpy frog/duck sounds . Is this normal? How can I make him more comfortable at night? Any advice is appreciated
I've been having a lot of fun with my yellow sided baby gcc, Leo. He is getting more socialized, playing, eating, coming out of the cage on his own, beak grinding every night . One of my biggest concerns, though, is that he freaks out every night before bed. His cage is in my room. Every time I cover him at night, he starts screaming and freaking out. If it were just screaming I could try and ignore it but what he does scares me into uncovering the cage and making sure he's okay....Every night when he is covered he starts hanging and climbing all around the walls of his cage, screaming and furiously flapping his wings (it almost sounds like they bang against the cage walls when he does it). When he screams during this time he is screaming bloody murder. It literally sounds like he's being tortured the way he screams lol. It makes me run to his cage to make sure he is okay. The flapping wings is really what gets to me! It scares me so much and leaves me no choice but to check on him. Eventually after 2-3 rounds of this he starts to fall asleep and grinds his beak while giving out the occasional grumpy frog/duck sounds . Is this normal? How can I make him more comfortable at night? Any advice is appreciated 
Eventually it started to take me so long to convince Buzz to go back in his cage at night that my husband told me to let him try sleeping on his playstand since he doesn't climb down anyway. 
It's been that was ever since. We just turn off the light in the dining room & it's still pretty bright from the attached living room light until we go to bed, but Buzzard just tucks up and goes to sleep whenever he's ready. Since he's 14, I liken it to a teenager that wants a later bedtime. He still goes to sleep at his regular time, though, so it hasn't been a problem. 
Birds!
