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Little Wing’s 8th Hatch Day
Posted by Derek on Jun 04, 2010 No Comments
Today is our Greenwing’s (Little Wing) 8th hatch day! To celebrate, we are having a sale on all large and extra large bird toys – 20% off! Just enter coupon code “littlewing”.
We disappeared for a while, here’s why…
Posted by Derek on Mar 25, 2010 1 Comment
If you follow us from our blog, Facebook or Twitter, you may have noticed that we have been completely silent on all fronts for almost 5 months now. We didn’t drop off the face of the Earth and the store was still up and running for everyone to buy great toys, food and other stuff for their birds. Unfortunately for the past 5 months we simply have not had time to keep up with our growing social network. Why? We were having babies (yes, plural!) – Claire Amelia and Emma Rose.
In November we actually moved our business from Denver to San Diego to be closer to family once we found out my wife and I would be having twins. Unfortunately, just weeks after arriving back in San Diego, my wife had to be put on hospital bed rest for almost 9 weeks. Our identical twin girls were born prematurely at 32 weeks on February 2, 2010. For the next 4 weeks, we were constantly visiting the hospital and our twins in the NICU. We finally got to bring them both home on March 6 and have been adjusting to life with 2 new people in the house. With all this craziness going on, we simply didn’t have enough time to keep up with maintaining everything for Hello, Bird! In fact, during most of this time our birds were living with other family members because we did not have the capacity to care for them while in the hospital so there was no fun photos or updates about our birds to report anyway.
However, we’re getting back into the swing of things and hope to get back to building a great bird community here at Hello, Bird!
Your favorite pelleted bird food
Posted by Derek on Oct 27, 2009 8 Comments
Today I wanted to get some feedback about what brand of pelleted bird food our customers prefer for their companion parrots. In our store, we offer Harrison’s, ZuPreem, Roudy Bush, Totally Organic Pellets, Scenic and Goldenfeast. We want you to vote for your (or your bird’s) favorite pelleted food. We also want to hear why you chose this diet, so please add your comments!
The winner of this poll will have all their items on sale!
If you want to be notified when this sale happens, make sure to join our email newsletter, follow us on Twitter or Facebook.
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Posted by Derek on Oct 27, 2009 3 Comments
Today we just added more wonderful bird toys to our store, all from Stanley’s Bird Creations. You can find them in our What’s New section or by searching. We will be adding even more new bird toys to the store here shortly!
Our new rewards program, Bird Bucks
Posted by Derek on Oct 15, 2009 No Comments
We are very excited to announce the start of our new rewards program. With every purchase you make at Hello, Bird! you will get 10% of your order total in Bird Bucks to use on a future purchase.
Example: Make an order of $150, you get $15 in Bird Bucks
When you have accumulated a minimum of $25 Bird Bucks, you can then use that towards your next purchase at our store! If you already have an account on our store, you can see how many Bird Bucks you have at any time by visiting the Bird Bucks tab.
We have been working hard to bring this new feature to our customers to reward them for their loyalty. We hope everyone enjoys this new program.
Unfortunately we are not able to give Bird Buck credit from past orders before launching this new program, we apologize.
Halloween fun with your bird
Posted by Derek on Oct 15, 2009 No Comments
Today we have launched a new promotion: 25% off all bird treats! (Ends Nov 5) We feel even your birds should be able to enjoy in the Halloween festivities.
For Halloween, one of the most common things you can do with your bird is have him be a part of your pirate costume. Some things to consider if you are going to be having your bird on your shoulder as part of your interactive costume is: 1) Make sure they are comfortable on your shoulder 2) Make sure your bird is allowed to be where you are going with him 3) Be careful of loud noise or very active places – your parrot may freak out and grab on to your ears or some other part of your head you don’t want him to.
If you don’t want to be the stereotypical pirate, another idea is to be a jungle explorer. Another idea even dress up as a parrot yourself and have a “mini me” parrot with you (think Austin Powers).
Our Greenwing loves seeing people and we have been working with him to do a monster “rawr!” on command for a while – perfect for Halloween. So we love to greet the neighborhood kids while holding him. He loves seeing the kids in costume and the kids love seeing a parrot (often times it’s the first time they have ever seen one!)
As with everything, there are some things to be concerned about during Halloween with your bird. Learn more about Halloween safety ideas for your parrot.
We hope everyone has a fun, and most importantly, safe Halloween this year!
Our flock is growing, and migrating!
Posted by Derek on Oct 09, 2009 3 Comments
We love animals, especially our wonderful parrots. We love to spoil them with parrot toys, great parrot food and of course lots of love and attention. We are extremely happy to finally announce that we are growing our flock here at Hello, Bird! However, it’s not with more parrots but humans. We’ve been keeping this news quiet except with family and close friends, but we are very excited to finally tell everyone who visits our store that my wife is pregnant with twin girls due sometime in March. We are incredibly excited by the news and of course have to tell everyone.
As a result of this major life change, we have decided to relocate back to our roots in Southern California. How will this affect the Hello, Bird store? Not one bit. We are only an online store and our shipments are managed from our distribution center so moving our home base won’t affect anything at all.
If anyone has had parrots before having children, we’d love to get some feedback! Some things we’re concerned with are having our birds’ sleep disrupted by a crying baby and how we’ll have less time to give attention to the birds for a while until we get settled in to the new situation. There are probably even more things we haven’t thought of yet.
Monthly drawing for $10 coupon
Posted by Derek on Oct 01, 2009 2 Comments
Did you know that each month we do a monthly drawing for a $10 coupon? We randomly select 1 winner from past customers and our email list. If you’re not on our email list, go ahead and join now! The coupon is good on anything in our store.
Send Us Your Birds
Posted by Derek on Sep 30, 2009 No Comments
We are bird fanatics and love just seeing other birds. So, we thought we would try to collect some great photos of our customers and fans! Please fill out the form below to submit photos of your bird(s). We’d especially love it if there are items purchased from our store in the photo! We’ll be showing off the photos here in our blog and Facebook pages.
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Images must be in .jpg and under 2MB. By uploading an image, you are agreeing that you have permission to use this photo and it is not copyrighted. You are also granting us permission to use the photo in our marketing efforts (you will be notified if it is used).
Poll: Bed time for your birds
Posted by Derek on Sep 10, 2009 1 Comment
Birds need about 10-12 hours of sleep each night (so do I). After a day of work is when we have the most time to spend with our birds, so they don’t go to bed extremely early. What time do you birds get tucked in at night?
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