Fun with Feathers
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Monthly Archives: June 2013
Blue beak
Uh, remember that toy from 3 posts ago? The one I thought would last for more than a week? 
Well, this one* was on a mission to prove me wrong.
*with a little help from Cooper and Ozzie.
She nibbled so much on the blue block that her beak turned blue.
I couldn’t get a photo of it, but her tongue was blue, too.
She went through 4 of the yucca pieces in 2 days.
Here she is posing with her “kill”.
Here she is in action:
Pardon the poops (some of which, by the way, were blue).
Wonder Cooper!
My friend Adam made this for me. Wonder budgie!
More moulting
My little pookie is a bit of a mess. Cooper is going through a bad moult. She’s been a little grumpy and has been taking lots of naps. I’ll be glad when all the moulting is over – the feather situation is out of control.
New Toy – June
It’s the Side Winder from Jungle Toys. It’s got these big pieces of yucca and wooden blocks. The budgies go through chew toys quickly, but I’m thinking this one will last for more than a week.
Sunny and Cooper love it!
I hope all the chewing takes Cooper’s mind off of her moulting/pin feathers.
Even Ozzie is getting in on the action. Not Dewey, though. He prefers to nibble on Sunny.
Cooper’s song of the month
“Wings” by Little Mix
Bad Budgie
Argh.
The budgies are driving me nuts. They started gnawing on my bookcase, so I covered it with a towel to keep it from becoming a chew toy (Harry is going to rig something up later to prevent this from happening).
But now they just climb down the towel and hang off the end to chew on the bookcase. Or even worse, the wall paint – which is a big no no!
All aboard the naughty train!
And I don’t know what it is about the window blinds, but I cannot keep the budgies off of them (Dewey is Sunny’s shadow).
Sunny likes to climb under the towel or blinds so I can’t find her. Here she is in action:
Movie review – Taken 2
This month’s movie is Taken 2.
While traveling in Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are kidnapped by the family of the villains he defeated in Taken. Using his “particular set of skills” he must save himself and his family.
Cooper’s favorite parts of the movie were the two scenes with the budgies. The budgies are the true heroes of the movie – by following the sound of their chirps, Mills is able to find the building in which his wife is held captive.
Budgies in Art
Sir Edward John Poynter – The Hon. Violet Monckton