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Dumpling makes himself look big and scary

Dumpling (aka Lilek) has been playing tricks on the other budgies. In an effort to make himself look scary he stood behind a magnifying screen and squawked.

Had no effect on the other budgies but gave us the fright of our lives.

Naughty Dumpy :)

 

Old Photo of Roswell, Snowy and Monty

I found a photograph that was taken only a few days after Roswell and Snowy had been introduced to Monty. Roswell and Snowy still had purple ceres and were about 3 months old here.

They did so much to alleviate Monty's grief after little Eric passed away.

Such a cute photo too, I think you'll agree. :)

Blurry Budgies

This update was inspired by my friend Sweetpea's blog post: http://onesweetiepea.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/2011-review-failures/

Here are two perfectly lovely photos. Or they would be if Monty and Snowy had stayed perfectly still.

First photo I like to call "Monty Two face" - At times you have no idea which side of Monty will be present - Jekyll or Hyde, He can be a lovely and caring leader of the flock.

OR, he can be a naughty little tyrant that we call "Monty Big Balls". He starts manically chasing Jerry (if Jerry is annoying him by chasing Snowy) and demonstrating to him that he is boss. This has to be broken up as it can end in a fight. Monty does not give up when he wants to make his point.

Second photo is Snowy running around, unable to stay still. He's a total blur. Just like the "ants" running around with their lattes on the way to work in the morning.

Dumpling likes to sleep in the weirdest of places

I was just wondering where my little Dumpling was. He's a bit quiet and I can't feel any biting on my toes.

I looked down under my chair and he has curled up asleep under my foot, right by my big toe.

Silly boy. He's lucky I always check before I pull out my chair.  I want to get up and make a coffee but I can't disturb him, can I?

Budgie bedtime is a military style operation

Budgie Bedtime can be a very fraught process at times. I have to follow the routine to the letter otherwise chaos can ensue.

After cages has been cleaned, food and water are changed we can get down to the serious business of the day.

Monty, Snowy and Sky all have to be on perches that are near the front of the cage. Lilek must be on his shelf at the far right end. If this is not followed, Snowy will knock Monty off the perch and Lilek will leap to his shelf in the dark - squiggling and chittering at any budgie in his path.

Photo One shows incorrect bedtime positions, photo two shows correct ones.

Blueboy, Jerry and Roswell get some millet to share before bed, this makes Blueboy feel like a more welcome member of the group as they all cooperate and eat together.

Photo three shows the boys eating.

Photo four is Dumpling (Lilek) on his bedtime shelf, ready to settle down for the night.

Abbie and Hector like to mess around a bit, making weird strangled noises at eachother and trying to preen eachothers feet.

Photos five and six are the two of them messing about!

The lamp is on, budgies are partially covered. I go to wash up their bowls and toys. This takes about 10 minutes as they are left to dry overnight.

When I come back I put the budgies to bed, gently whispering the "Bedtime for budgies rhyme" and pulling down the cage covers for the night.

If I am very lucky they will not stir until my alarm goes off at 7.30am.

Bed times for budgies, Budgie Bedtimes.

Dill-icious Treat on Medicine day

This morning we had the arduous task of giving the nine fiends for their 6-monthly Ivermectin treatment. This is necessary to protect them from Mites and various other nasties.

Abbie, Snowy, Roswell, Lilek, Blueboy and Hector were pretty easy to treat. My husband held each one while I applied one drop of medicine to their backs between their "shoulder blades".

Sky did not want to be caught, neither did Jerry.

Monty was another matter entirely. The king decided that being grabbed was beneath him, despite seeing his subjects survive the ordeal quite easily.

King Monty escaped us 3 times after he was placed in a cage to allow being handled. He made the most awful high pitched noise to indicate that he was not happy with the situation. One we finally caught up with him and treated him it was over in 3 seconds and he was free.

I don't think we have been forgiven quite yet. He sat on the top of Budgingham Palace for quite a while, staring at us and ruffling his wings in an annoyed fashion.

After we had been shopping the fiends were treated to some Dill to try and make up for the nasty-but-necessary-medicine..

It's our chair now

Roswell, Jerry and Monty have claimed my chair as their own. I only hope I am allowed to sit on it occasionally.

They even land on it when I am at my desk.

Look at tiny Monty next to Jerry and Roswell. Jerry is trying to stand as tall as he can, you wouldn't think he was a pet type and Roswell an exhibition bird.