Early Morning Screamer

[cml]

Terri suggested answering him. That might work. If a child calls for you sometimes it is just to know where you are. Answering solves his problem. Your bird might just be wanting to know that you did not disappear while he was sleeping.

the problem with answering him is that if i answer him once, he will want me to answer every time. thus leaving me to be woken up every time, and still getting no sleep. i see your reasoning but it would eventually "inadvertently teach" him TO wake me up... see my issue?

Answering is a bad idea in my opinion, it will just reinforce the screaming.

Despite having a small space, my method is doable, we did it in our old apartment with just 2 rooms. You can still control the light settings, just get better blinds which dont let through any light. IKEA sells them, but make sure you go for the ones with no lightspillage! Then add timers to your lights. It works!

[Eurycerus]

I am adopting a Senegal that this lady is getting rid of because of this same problem. I'm definitely concerned andI can not black out my room because it has two huge sliding glass doors.... I'm hopingI can figure something out

[Wayne361]

Dont think I can help original posters question but think that light management might be your only recourse. My will only scream in the morning if I sometimes sleep in. Reason being is I am late with his morning feeding and he is letting me know. 9 times out of 10 times he doesnt make a peep and greets me in the morning with "hey buddy" then "yum yums" Other than that he only screams when I enter or leave the house (bird alarm).

[liz]

The dogs are the noisiest in my house. If somone comes to the door they all run to the door and bark with Rambo right behind them. If that does not scare a person and they do come in Myrtle does fly bys.

[Grey_Moon]

6:30? Heck you get to sleep in about an hour longer than I do

Most birds instinctively wake at dawn---my grey jumps down on the pillow at about 5:30 most days. You can't necessarily correct an instinct though.

There's two routes you can go with this---or a combo of both:

A) Change when 'dawn' is by blackening out the room in which your bird sleeps. This doesn't mean throwing a cover over the cage---but putting up heavy blinds/curtains etc so the whole room is dark.
B) Get up earlier---in my opinion if you want a parrot you kiss sleeping in goodbye. Get up at 6:30 and spend some early morning flock time with him---if it means you have to start going to bed earlier so be it---it means you'll sleep longer and better.

Personally I'm not a fan making dawn come later---I accept the nature of the bird I care for. The reason he's yelling is because its morning and he's looking for you and could very well be hungry. My grey is dead quiet in the morning---why? Because she can see and get to me when she wakes. I think this avoids the bird waking up alone and being scared instinctively and thus calling for their flock.

If he's hungry the only option to is to leave him a little overnight snack ooor drag yourself out of bed for 15 mins and feed him.