Parrot-focused boarding for the wooded Highbush neighbourhood, tucked beside Altona Forest and the Twyn Rivers ravines.
Highbush is Pickering's leafiest residential corner, set in the northwest of the city between Altona Road and the protected Altona Forest, with the Twyn Rivers valley and Rouge Park lands wrapping its western flank. It's a quiet, tree-canopied neighbourhood of larger executive homes on generous lots, where many properties back onto woodland and the streets curve gently around the natural topography. People move to Highbush for the green space and the calm — and they want that same calm for their birds.
The companion parrots we board from Highbush tend to come from spacious, settled homes: African Greys and Amazons in the bigger houses near Twyn Rivers Drive, cockatiels and conures in the family homes around Highbush Public School, and budgies and lovebirds that have a whole sunroom to themselves. These are often birds with rich daily routines, and their owners — many of whom travel for work or take extended holidays — look for boarding that won't disrupt the careful environment they've built at home.
Our quiet, individual approach is a natural fit. A Highbush bird used to birdsong drifting in from Altona Forest and a peaceful, unhurried day won't be dropped into a noisy shared room here. Instead it gets out-of-cage play one bird at a time, on its own schedule, in a predictable setting that mirrors the calm it's used to.
Getting to us from Highbush is straightforward — down Altona Road or along Sheppard Avenue and Kingston Road toward the central corridor — so even from the city's quiet northwest edge, drop-off is an easy errand. We use that handoff to learn your bird's specifics: the foraging puzzle it loves, the produce it actually eats, the exact bedtime it expects its cage covered.
Every Highbush guest receives daily cage cleaning, twice-daily fresh water, seasonal fruit and veggies, and dedicated enrichment time. And because a current avian-vet exam is required from every boarder, your bird is only ever around other healthy birds during its stay with us.
Daily paper changes and scrubbed grills, full disinfection between guests — a quiet, tidy space that suits a bird from a calm, wooded Highbush home.
Twice-daily water changes, daily food top-ups, and seasonal fresh produce, matched exactly to the diet your bird already follows.
One-on-one out-of-cage enrichment, never shared flock time, keeping a peaceful Highbush bird relaxed throughout its stay.
Around Highbush? We also board birds for these nearby Pickering communities: