a very dominant budgie, poser, bite that toy!

Monty has been at his most dominant and displaying today, not sure why the littlest, oldest budgie feels this way today but he has been showing it a lot. He’s been skipping and hopping around with his little tail right up on the air. I wonder if anyone else's birds do this, I have never seen it before. It’s really funny to watch, it’s like his tail is a little aerial as the ones they have on remote control cars.

A Trill powered Monty

Roswell has been up to his posing again, as soon as I point a camera his way he poses, he’s so comfortable in front of the camera and sometimes squawks at me if I put it away or direct it at another of the budgies.

I’m ready for my close-up

I am pleased to report that the new toy is very popular and anyone that is anyone has had a bite or a prod of it.

Lets pull this sucker apart, it’s just so damn colourful and offensive

The benefit of being small

Monty is my smallest and yet most dominant budgie – he rules everything and thinks everything is his, including me.  He has a weird dominant stance that I have never seen in a budgie before (let me know if you have I would be intrigued)

Roswell landed at the top of the Tower of Terror earlier and Monty hopped and flew about around it until Roswell flew off. He was oblivious to Monty as he was busy preening himself, but I am sure that Monty still took it as a victory.

As two of my birds are exhibition budgies (Roswell and Snowy), bred to be shown off at shows, they are bigger than pet types although they seem just as energetic – perhaps because they have to keep up with their two pet type smaller friends!

But Monty is even smaller than Jerry, the other pet type and he has the tiniest little feet but manages to cling on to anything with one nail because he is so tiny and light.

Benefits if being small like Monty are…

You have lots more space than others and don’t feel cramped

 

You look cute and inoffensive, even though you aren’t

 

 

You can mock others and get away with it

Monty “Here we have Jerry and Roswell in their natural habitat, foraging for a ping pong ball. I wonder if they realise it’s not food?”

 

You fit in tiny and interesting places without pulling a muscle

 

Small is beautiful…but then so is big