Lots of lovely vegetables for the budgies today, Basil seems to make them go totally nuts, it must be some sort of budgie Superfood. They have been flying about like Bats out of Hell and arguing about the ownership of the Basil (it’s Monty’s – everything in this house belongs to Monty)
One Budgie and his Basil
Roswell’s Daily Pose
Snowy and Monty tucking into some more lovely grub
Jerry decides Corn is best
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
If you don’t go away I shall claw you to death with my tiny foot, I am raising it now! GO!
If you're looking for trouble
You came to the right place
If you're looking for trouble
Just look right in my face
I was born standing up
And talking back
My daddy was a green-eyed mountain jack
Because I'm evil, my middle name is misery
Well I'm evil, so don't you mess around with me
Roswell and Jerry had a major cute preening session the other day, had to get the camera out and capture it in pixels before they stopped. Roswell tilt his little fluffy head forwards for Jerry to preen, so sweet. I am really pleased the way Jerry has worked out, Roswell wasn’t happy being the odd budgie out after Snowy and Monty became friends. He had started pinging the bars and biffing and biting the other budgies to get attention.
He’s so much happier now :)
Monty staring down at Roswell and Jerry trying to figure out what on earth they are up to. Your guess is as good as mine Monty!
The king looking cute and fluffy, I wanna tickle his belly but he wont let me.
Monty is looking so healthy these days – so unlike when we first got him, he had a very crusty beak. Look at him now all shiny, fluffy and beautiful.
All these years we have been wondering where Bin Laden is hanging out..
One Roswell and his ball
Mmmmmm, this is good Millet man I feel chilled
Snowy actually stopped and posed for this one for ages, good boy that he is. The way he is holding his feet I am wondering if I should get him a guitar. If anyone knows what chord that is please let me know.
Roswell “Has anyone seen Jerry?”
At last I thought of an idea for all the lolly-sticks that I had been saving up. Jerry keeps throwing perfectly good vegetable onto the floor before any of the other budgies have had a chance for a nibble of it. So I thought I would use the sticks to make a kind of vegetable kebab.
I slit each Mange Tout and Baby Sweet corn and threaded them onto the stick, so far no vegetables have been flung over the side! So far so good!
Kebabs for the birds
Where is my piece of corn? I am sure I put it down somewhere
Monty had a good play this morning, running back and forth on the play centre and beating up the plastic budgie. I do wonder what goes through his mind when he does this. He looks really furious.
Mad Monty
Roswell and Jerry have been up to their usual tricks of climbing on things and biting them. In this case it was the turn of the Budgie Screen that we made for the Window.
Naughty Vandals
I spent a long time today playing with the birds, we gave Jerry a Spot On Treatment (protection against Scaly face and Mites amongst other nasties) so we tried to give him some millet as a treat after – of course he wouldn’t come near our hands so I left some form him in the cage and play centre.
I tried to get the others to perch on my hand to eat the millet but they were mostly reluctant – EXCEPT for Monty!
Monty used to perch on my hand to eat millet in the old days before Roswell, Snowy and Jerry came along so I wasn’t sure if he still would be he did, this was fun, it feels nice to have the little boy on my hand and I could feel his little feathery face between my fingers as he ate the millet. He played about a lot too jumping off my hand to the play centre and back. He also biffed and nibbled lightly at my hand.
Monty from the old days
It’s really good that Monty is still not afraid of jumping on my hand even if it is only when there is millet in it for him.
I had a little bit of cash left in my Paypal account so had a look on Ebay for a budgie Toy and I found something that I think might be a lot of fun for them.
This is what I got, I’m really looking forward to it arriving, it’s a Little Heart with multi-coloured rings hanging off of it.
My budgies: Monty, Snowy, Roswell and Jerry are very successful at what they do, they are budgies all day long and have four very important tips to share with you so that you can be as productive and creative as they are. Follow these and you cannot go far wrong.
Always eat breakfast
As Jerry demonstrates here, if you do not eat a balanced breakfast before you start work for the day, you will be flagging way before mid day and you will probably reach for a sugary snack that will make your blood sugar plummet and you’ll feel even more tired and less productive.
Don’t be frightened to take charge
So you’re worried that people will see you as bossy, Monty doesn’t worry about such things, he just gets on with it and is very decisive.
Remember to look your best at all times
You never know when you could get called into that all-important career breaking meeting, you don’t want snagged tights or scruffy shoes making a dent in your confidence when an opportunity presents itself. Roswell always looks immaculate.
Climb that Success Ladder
From down there it might look high but think how you will feel when you reach the top.
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
Here they are enjoying their breakfast from this morning, Mange Tout, Baby Corn, Red Pepper, Curly Parsley and Broccoli. Mounting all of the vegetables on a Broccoli stalk seemed to stop Jerry from throwing them onto the floor – which he usually does within 5 minutes of seeing loose corn or mange tout and basically anything he can pick up!
Earlier on Monty flew into the kitchen and started to peck at my husbands Cup whilst singing and dancing back and forth, my husband was out at the time so maybe this was Monty’s idea of being cheeky and playing about while he wasn’t here :)
We bought a stick on (with suckers) clear plastic soap dish and stuck it on the balcony windows, Jerry and Roswell have had great fun staring out of the window and jumping back and forth from the play centre to the dish and then the Tower of Terror.
| Monty, Snowy, Roswell and Jerry are sharing my breakfast today. We're having Red Pepper, Baby Corn, Mange Tout, Curly Parsley all mounted on a broccoli stalk. Yum yum? Bring your own fork, napkin and bib. They do love their vegetables and they had better eat them like good little boys or I'll have to send them to their room :) |
When we first got our budgies we bought one of those “clip to the side of the cage” baths for £4-5 from the pet shop, a yellow one I believe. We tried all we could to get them into it, splish splashing about with our fingers, putting millet or lettuce in it but no, they were scared of the damn thing (not been in it to this day)
Eventually we realised that they would only get into a vessel if it was see-through, their suspicious natures no doubt!
So we got them a Pyrex pie dish to bathe in and they love it, especially if the water is diluted with camomile tea.
Something new though is that if I put the three coloured ping pong balls in the water then they jump in straight away and make a huge mess splashing about – especially Roswell and Jerry!
Monty likes it too, Snowy is not much of a bather but will get in the bath if I hold it up for him – I think he likes me to be the life-guard in case one of the other budgies jump in and he gets trapped. Bath time seems safer for him if it’s heavily policed, which is fine.
Monty and Jerry also like to rub themselves against Parsley in a rather perverse manner!
Monty and a Curly Parsley session
Jerry Day-Dreams on the swing
Ping Pong bath
Roswell “I always loved the Discovery Zone”
