What? No bloopers? Cooper has become such a super little model that we didn’t have any bloopers this month. So instead, here are some pics of the flock opening wide and saying, “Ahhh.” Or, “ACK!”
Ozzie
Lera
Gordie
Emmy
Alfie
Cooper
Dewey
handfedbudgies.com
Togs the budgie.
Togs again – image Wild Life Sydney
Faery Bee on TalkBudgies
Valerieliying.blogspot
Pinnies! Emily Freeman Photography
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Angelica Koch
Kookaburrasinourbackyard.blogspot
Alicia E.
Mobile from lovelyfriend.
Baby blanket from Noah & Bowie.
Baby Rattle.
Holztiger wooden budgie toy.
Wood ‘N Things puzzle.
Plush budgies.
This month’s book is Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes.
In Flaubert’s Parrot, English doctor Geoffrey Braithwaite examines the life of Gustave Flaubert and uses his writings to make sense of his own life. The title bird is a stuffed parrot that sat on Flaubert’s desk while he wrote Un cœur simple (and which features a parrot by the name of Loulou).
Cooper enjoyed this book – she learned a lot about Flaubert. Her favorite part of the book follows:
“In 1845 Gustave was traveling through Antibes, on his way to Italy, when he came across a sick parakeet which merited an entry in his diary; the bird used to perch carefully on the mudguard if its owner’s light cart, and at dinnertime would be brought in and placed on the mantlelpiece. The diarist notes the ‘strange love’ clearly evident between man and pet.”
Cooper thinks if the book had been titled Flaubert’s Budgie, it certainly would have won the Pulitzer or Nobel Prize.
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
– John McCrae
She looks sweet, doesn’t she? Who would have thought little Lera (and she is so tiny) would rule the roost? All the budgies make way for Lera. If she sees something she wants, it’s hers. I never see her pecking at the others, so I don’t know how she does it…
Gordie is up to speed with the other budgies now. He comes out on his own, eats his veggies, chatters (loudly), takes baths and pals around with Ozzie. His favorite spot to hang out is on the playgym on top of the bookshelf. And now, when we peer into the cage, he comes right up to the bars to visit. And very recently, he’s become close with Lera! I’ve caught him feeding her and they’ve been preening each other. They’re not inseparable/loveydovey, but I’m glad that he has a little sweetheart.
It’s the Water Drop from Scooter Z’s.
The budgies haven’t figured out what to do with it. For now it’s a pretty prop to pose by.
What is Ozzie thinking?