Like many of the most fashionable people of their era, both W. R. Coe and Mai Rogers had a great liking for exotic birds, including parrots and macaws. The Coes took several trips to the Caribbean, during which they purchased birds to bring home. While a teenager away at boarding school, Natalie was once promised a bird from Jamaica by her father if she was good while he and Mai were away. Both W.R. and Mai Coe were known to have kept birds in his/her bathroom, making the noise at their end of the house considerable. Mai Coe and Feathered Friend