The Newbies

Posted on February 19, 2014 by Michelle M.

A little update on how the new budgies are doing.Emmy loves the new cage. She is all over everything. She’s quite the energetic acrobat. She’s definitely going to keep Ozzie on his toes. Today she came out of the cage and flew around the room. She bonked into a couple walls. Ack! She’s fine, though. Watching a budgie learn to fly for the first time in a room is awful. Emmy still isn’t finger tame. I need to work on that!
Poor Gordie! Look at those pinnies! He’s going through a rather bad moult. Gordie will be out of quarantine soon. I’m glad he’ll be with the other budgies. He just sits in his cage and doesn’t play with his toys. He’s so quiet. I’m hoping he’ll be happy when he’s part of a flock. Gordie is great at sitting on our shoulders, but does not like fingers. But we keep trying – I think he’ll get there eventually.Little Lera (named after my niece Solera). She’s such a sweetie. Her quarantine will be up soon as well. She lets me pet her tummy, so I think stepping up is right around the corner. Three days after we brought Gordie home I saw an ad for a budgie in Craigslist. She was in our neighborhood, so I couldn’t resist. She’s just started playing with her toys. It seems that it takes the rehomed budgies a month to be comfortable (exploring their cage and playing with their toys).

It will be so nice to have all the budgies in one cage. Probably quieter, too!

We Miss You!

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Harry

The flock really misses Michelle. She went to AZ to visit family and had a freak accident while ice skating, breaking her leg in multiple spots just above the ankle. The budgies were hoping to see her tonight, but she’ll be out for another couple days. Here’s a video of the main flock because I know she would love to see them.

Oops

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Harry

Michelle is gone for the weekend and I was left in charge. I forgot what I needed to do for a post and took a picture of Cooper and Sunny.After talking to Michelle, I remembered (after being told) that I was supposed to take a photo of the new bird. Yay!I didn’t like how that turned out, so I took the top off the cage and… spooked her with my camera. Eeks! She flew away and crawled under the couch. After much coaxing, I managed to get her here.Welcome to the flock, Nuni! (That’s not her name, I just like to call her that).

Movin’ On Up

Posted on January 23, 2014 by Michelle M.

A while ago something arrived in the mail.

(insert “What’s in the box?” joke here)It was a brand new cage for the budgies! Harry put it together.Cooper “coopervised”.Here’s Cooper deciding if Harry’s work is acceptable.Once she deemed the cage suitable, the budgies moved in.Alfie is never far from a bell.Cooper was not too excited about having her picture taken – she is moulting and doesn’t feel she looks her best. Sunny was too busy taking apart the marshmallow toy to pose.Emmy sitting pretty. The cage has a divider, which is up at present. Until Emmy is finger tamed we have her separated from the others. Ozzie spends his time going back and forth between sides.Which is easy to do when you have your own airplane!

Emmy meets the flock

Posted on January 13, 2014 by Michelle M.

Even though Emmy isn’t finger tame (or even close to being so), we put her cage in the same room with the rest of the flock. We thought maybe Emmy’s presence would be a bit of a distraction for the budgies.

Cooper didn’t seem too curious about the new girl.

Alfie showed some initial interest, so I put him in the cage with her. But he just wanted to play with her toy.

I took all the budgies out to visit.

They promptly fell asleep.

Poor Emmy – she so wants to be with them, and goes nuts climbing all over the cage to get to them. But the budgies just don’t seem to be interested. Maybe it’s because she’s so young.

Thank goodness for Ozzie. He’s our little welcome wagon. He’ll fly over and visit occasionally with her. What a little sweetie.

Cooper’s Corner 2013 – year in review

Posted on December 31, 2013 by Michelle M.

More Presents!

Posted on December 27, 2013 by Michelle M.

The budgies got some fun toys for Christmas. Sorry about the poor quality of the photos. The budgies were in constant action and I took them in the evening (I don’t like to use the flash).Here is Ozzie (who is moulting – again) next to the “starburst”. This toy was a definite hit.Dewey seeing what all the fuss is about.Cooper hard at work untying the knots.No one would go near this toy – but I’m sure once they figure out it won’t eat them, it will provide lots of fun.Sunny claiming the “marshmallows”. When she’s busy elsewhere, the other budgies sneak in a nibble.There was feasting on millet and lettuce as well.I had a gift to open, too! These little budgie salt and pepper shakers were from my friend, Craig. They’re so darn cute (almost as cute as the real thing) – thank you Craig!