Four Sticky Yellow-faced Budgies

We thought we were going to have to lock the fiends in for the day as we had workmen arriving, so we gave them some corn which I ingeniously managed to wedge onto lolly-sticks and the husband hung up in the cage on a wooden clothes peg. I also draped Basil all over the cage too to try and keep them amused. Snowy took great pleasure in chewing the stalks so that all the leaves fell to the floor of the cage and all of the budgies now have sticky yellow faces and beaks. Might have to give them a rest from corn tomorrow and wash their little faces with a flannel, mummy style :) Budgingham Palace looks like a tropical rainforest

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and then it rained!

Wow, the sky just got dark and it’s suddenly started raining really hard, I heard someone scream outside and someone shouted “I’m getting really soaked”, always funny when it's happening to someone else :D

The budgies do not like the dark sky, Roswell and Jerry are perched on the soap dish on the window staring out at it wondering if it means the worlds millet supply is no more (It’s as deep as they can get to “it’s the end of the world”)

Snowy and Monty are playing about inside Budgingham palace pretending all is as normal but secretly wondering why the room and sky have got dark and who stole the shiny bright thing that shines on them and makes then happy.

They haven’t been subjected to thunder and lightning yet, wonder what they’ll make of that?

 

I have to keep changing things around to keep the fiends happy

 

 

When they’re happy, they don’t fight

 

They still stare at me a lot though

 

Monty can even sometimes tolerate Jerry

 

Well….almost

 

My Grey beauty Roswell is happy when he has his basil and his Jerry :)

 

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New member of the flock!

It’s a clay budgie that my mum brought me back from Eastbourne, it’s a third of the size of a real budgie and it’s a female, but my four feisty boys are petrified of it :)

With the absence of my camera (husband is borrowing it) today the photos are going to be a bit cack, sorry!

 

I’m evil evil evil as can be, don’t mess around with me

 

Some lovely vegetables to try and distract the boys from fighting and cussing each other

 

What shall I try first Monty, corn or Mange Tout?

Did you know that they buy the expensive stuff for us, they don’t eat any?

 

 

Hey, that Mange Tout and corn is the same colour as me!

 

 

Basil, you have not defeated the Montyraptor, I’ll be back.

 

Mmmm this Trill is GOOOOOOOOD!

 

 

I might jump in this and roll about in a minute

 

 

Must ask them to get some differently coloured foods

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We’re all friends now

The budgies are getting along a lot better today, right now they’re all on the budgie shelf rack snoozing and preening.

Monty even took some time to stand next to Jerry for a while and sing (show off)

Hello Green one, it’s King Monty, pleased to meet you

I wanna be in the photo too. CHEEESEE!

This is most unseemly, can’t a bird sing and poop in peace?

Daily Pose from Roswell

 

Someone’s clipped some basil on our play centre. Better nibble it off quick!

VEGETABLES….Mange Tout, Carrot, Corn and Courgette..

Nine pictures of the fiends

Are you looking at my Johnson?

I know I had it here somewhere..

Do you fancy a cocktail Monty, it’s my round?

Oh bugger, I’ve dropped the Basil

I Hink I got my Hung Tuck

 

It’s my impression of a koala

I can see through this thing

I don’t know the words to Hotel California, is it okay if I hum?

You might be bigger Roswell, but I’m pure muscle

Crazy naughty birds

As my previous post said, they have been really naughty and energetic today, Monty has bitten me twice, once this morning and once this afternoon – both times I was trying to get him away from Jerry as he was in “fight mode”. I can guarantee when he is in this mood that he will jump on my hand and savage it if I put it near him – which has it’s advantages as it makes it quite easy to remove him from the other budgies and place him in solitary (one of the cages we have – don’t worry they are both pretty large) for a few minutes while he calms down.

Anyway here are some pics from the day.

Monty and Snowy dancing about on the floor

 

I gave ‘em millet to try and calm them all down and take their tiny minds off of trying to jump on each other. Yeah I am that mother that bribes their kids with sweeties to shut them up cos they are driving me INSANE!

 

My Budgie the Dinosaur

Monty sometimes reminds me of a mini T-Rex or Velociraptor - the way he darts about speedily.

Especially when he first started running along the floor with his tail up in a dominant position staring up at us, actually these days he mostly hops along really fast like a crow, looking for something to beat up.

 

T-Rex (courtesy of Wikipedia http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Young_Tyrannosaurus_rex_02.JPG )



Velociraptor (courtesy of Wikipedia http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Velociraptor_mongoliensis_jmallon.jpg )



It was once reported that the early Dinosaur was more like a Chicken than any other bird: http://www.science20.com/news_articles/did_dinosaurs_become_chickens

I think the scientists have got it wrong, they were more like budgies, I have living proof squawking and singing right beside me right now.

You certainly wouldn’t want to meet a 13ft high version of Monty – even a Monty the size of a dog would do serious damage!

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