Post by dianapalmer on Jan 20, 2014 20:36:23 GMT
Everyone in my flock seems happy and healthy. The budgies sing constantly. Sometimes the level of noise gets a bit much 
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The mating behavior between Piper and Emma seems to have decreased in frequency. Perhaps it's the longer nights, or perhaps it's just that it's no longer new (you know, young love fades). Piper is spending a little more time with Snowy. They still squabble tho. Snowy does quite a bit of screeching. This seems to indicate Piper is doing something he doesn't like. This morning they were both on the big swing. I heard a lot of screeching, and when I looked I saw that Piper was standing right side up and Snowy was hanging on, upside down. Piper seemed to be banging snowy's beak with his own beak. I was thinking about going over to rescue Snowy when he managed to right himself, flew to a perch, and started preening himself.
All three birds fly around the living room together. Piper or Emma starts it and the other two join in. They make a big wind! Snowy is the weakest flyer. Even tho his wing feathers have grown in, he can't quite keep up, and after circling a time or or so often ends up on the floor or stuck to the curtains. When this happens, he seems very appreciative of a finger to help him get back to the top of the cage.
Emma is still standoffish with me. She occasionally flies to my shoulder, and I give her a sunflower seed. When I am in the dining room she sometimes flock calls. From time to time I go out to the living room and, there she is, on top of the cage. I go over and she walks toward me. However, when I offer my forearm and tell her she can come into the dining room and be with me, she quickly backs up. She doesn't look like she is scared of me. She'd just rather not, thank you anyway. I think that, one day, she will surprise me and step up. Not yet, tho.
.The mating behavior between Piper and Emma seems to have decreased in frequency. Perhaps it's the longer nights, or perhaps it's just that it's no longer new (you know, young love fades). Piper is spending a little more time with Snowy. They still squabble tho. Snowy does quite a bit of screeching. This seems to indicate Piper is doing something he doesn't like. This morning they were both on the big swing. I heard a lot of screeching, and when I looked I saw that Piper was standing right side up and Snowy was hanging on, upside down. Piper seemed to be banging snowy's beak with his own beak. I was thinking about going over to rescue Snowy when he managed to right himself, flew to a perch, and started preening himself.
All three birds fly around the living room together. Piper or Emma starts it and the other two join in. They make a big wind! Snowy is the weakest flyer. Even tho his wing feathers have grown in, he can't quite keep up, and after circling a time or or so often ends up on the floor or stuck to the curtains. When this happens, he seems very appreciative of a finger to help him get back to the top of the cage.
Emma is still standoffish with me. She occasionally flies to my shoulder, and I give her a sunflower seed. When I am in the dining room she sometimes flock calls. From time to time I go out to the living room and, there she is, on top of the cage. I go over and she walks toward me. However, when I offer my forearm and tell her she can come into the dining room and be with me, she quickly backs up. She doesn't look like she is scared of me. She'd just rather not, thank you anyway. I think that, one day, she will surprise me and step up. Not yet, tho.
hopefully it will be soon
