Cooper’s Day Off
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Cooper’s Crafts
Papercraft birds!
Macaw
Canaries
Lovebirds
Cockatiels
Budgie!
From Canon Creative Park Papercraft
Click for instructions.
Cooper’s Book Report
This month’s book is The Conditions of Love by Dale M. Kushner.
Despite the big blue budgie on the cover, this book was not about a budgie! The Conditions of Love is the story of Eunice, a young girl struggling to find love as she journeys through life.
There is a budgie in the book, Mr. Puccini, a green and yellow bird (unlike the blue budgie on the cover) who teaches Mern, Eunice’s self-centered mother, “simple happiness”. When Mr. Puccini escapes through an open window Mern is devastated (as one would be). Though Mr. Puccini only appears on a few pages, Cooper thought he was the star of this beautifully written, poignant story.
Budgie Kigu
The Japanese. What will they think of next? Kigurumi (Kigu) are animal pajama/onesies. 
The budgie kigu come in blue and green.
So which color will you be ordering?
Cooper’s song of the month
“I Like Birds” by Eels.
I Scream, You Scream
We all scream for budgie ice cream??
Japan’s Torimi cafe is serving up budgie ice cream (other flavors are cockatiel and java sparrow). The ice cream is not made from the birds, but is a combination of what the birds eat and the flavor of the birds. “Parakeet” has a vanilla ice cream base with honey, apple and grains blended in. According to Torimi cafe, “It’s like eating some vanilla ice cream in one hand, and then taking a whiff of a parakeet in your other hand.”
The ice cream was so successful, Torimi added ice cream sandwiches to the line. They can only make 20 batches at a time and are having trouble keeping up with demand.
Would you like to try budgie ice cream? 
Photo of Dewey from July 2012.
Cooper’s Day Off
Cooper’s Talent Show
There are so many amazing and talented birds in the world that Cooper decided to showcase one every month.
This is Groucho, a Yellow-Naped Amazon Parrot. Groucho is a talented singer and has performed on The Tonight Show and the Ellen DeGeneres Show.
Gordie Update
Gordie has come a long way since we first brought him home. 
He went through a moult, losing his clipped feathers. His new flight feathers are almost all in.
He’s interacting with the budgies and the toys. He even took a bath the other day. No more sitting quietly in one spot for Gordie! He’s become quite the chatterer and can screech just as loudly as the rest of the budgies. He’s started coming out of the cage as well. Before he would race back and forth in the cage trying to keep up with the budgies who were running about on top of the cage. He finally worked up his courage and flew out. It was very exciting. What a brave budgie!
Gordie is still working on his flying. I think once all his feathers are in he’ll be able to get the lift he wants. Right now his flying has a waggling quality. But he does his best to keep up with his buddy, Ozzie (he follows Ozzie around like a puppy).
That’s Gordie on the right – these two look like twins!
First Day of Spring!
