Monty and Jerry - Battle of the bruisers

It's happening again. Sigh.

Monty and Jerry have been at eachother over Snowy for about 4 days now. We keep having to separate them into cages and giving them time out.

Snowy decides that green is the best colour ever and constantly chases Jerry and tries to play kissy-face with him. This makes Monty mad and he pounces on Jerry. Jerry flies off and starts flapping his wings at Monty, making a growling, gurgly noise. Then they end up in a ball of feathers and claws.

Poor Monty has a cut on his cere that Jerry inflicted and my husband and I have had to physically separate them several times, getting bitten in the process. We had a look at Monty's cere and it seems okay, I cleaned it with a cotton bud. It'll heal, it's not the first time he's been slightly wounded in this area.

They both gets like this every few months, I guess it's their hormones..

Whatever it is I wish they would stop!

You can see Monty's cere in this photo, also here he is incarcerated with Snowykins.

The fiends would like to show off..

Some photos to show..

Hector has been singing to Abbie while she sleeps. It's very cute to watch.

Dumpling has been flying to my feet a lot, he especially loves my Christmas socks.

Monty and Snowy have just been posing. Although Monty flew off as soon as I had taken the photo.

What have the budgies been up to?

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The fiends are moulting

The budgies are really spiky at the moment. Their poor little heads must be really itchy.

Dumpling keeps trying to get me to preen him every time I go over to see him.

I made them some egg food:

Here is how I put it together:

Hard boil an egg for 25 minutes then cool it, cut it in half and peel off the shell.It has to be properly hard boiled otherwise your birds can get ill.

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Carrot, Broccoli and hard boiled egg

Grate about 2 inches worth of peeled carrot, and a washed floret of broccoli along with the egg into a bowl.

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Grated ingredients

OPTIONAL: I added a pinch of "Guardian Angel" as I had some handy but you don't have to do this.

Mix it all together and serve.

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Monty happily chomping away at his meal

Simple to make and very nutritious for your birds, moulting means that they need extra protein in order to produce new feathers.

IMPORTANT: Don't leave this out for more than a couple of hours and make sure you remove any traces of vegetable and egg that have been thrown around by the birds.


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Who da Pretty Boyz?

It's a nice morning for admiring yourself in the mirror don't you think?

They came...

Well what else would nine feathery fiends get up to on a Sunny Monday afternoon?

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I'm just a girl

What a lovely sunny bright day it is today, and HOT (22 degrees Celcius ... in April!) I am so glad (and I am sure that the birds are too) that we made the Window Screen last summer so that we can fully open a window and let the breeze and and allow some air to circulate. We need to make one for the other front room window so that we can have the full experience!

I am sprouting some seeds for the budgies - Alfalfa Sprouts, so that they can have something tasty and nutritious to eat. It'll take a couple of days but it's worth it and costs next to nothing!

The husband kindly put the budgie play-ground structure back together for me (well for the budgies really) today so I took advantage of this by pegging Basil to it for them and they enjoyed this a lot. Especially Snowy as he did what he always does, climbs up, nibbles on the stalks and throws the leaves to the floor!

Had to put a huge pink water bottle in Budgingham Palace as the little blue one kept leaking and soaking the newspaper, I am sure that this had absolutely nothing to do with the budgies penchant for climbing all over it and biting it. So far the pink monstrosity hasn't leaked so fingers and wings crossed that it stays that way.

The birds had a very sleepy afternoon after their Basil Munch but they are now in full evening song - today's song of choice on Kerrang is "I'm just a girl" by No Doubt!

Monty seems to particularly like the lyric "Oh I've had it up to here" :)

Photos..

Lots of photos and a millet day!

Got a lot of photos of the birds to show :)

Roswell has been posing for the camera as he's a very photogenic budgie, must be the "show bird" in him!

Dumpling has been going to his favourite corner demanding head scratches from me.

The budgies had a massive millet feast yesterday in the Summer Palace, I like to treat them with a millet day now and again and they really enjoy it. I got a great photo of them all in (and on!) the summer palace, see if you can spot and name all nine!

Little Custard is still following Roswell around and flapping at poor Jerry whenever he gets near to his old buddy. Jerry still manages to occasionally feed and preen Roswell much to Custards annoyance!

My King Monty is doing his best to show all the other birds that he is the boss by flapping around them, staring at them and generally running rings around them and us!

Quite often I will hear him call to me, turn round to look at him and he'll fly off, he does it so often that I get neck ache, little b*gger. He also landed on my head yesterday - you'll be trying to have a serious conversation or concentrate on something and he'll suddenly flap past you and jump on your bonce :)

Jokes, Jealous Custard and a naughty Monty

Jerry has been telling little Blueboy rude jokes again, I do wish he wouldn't try and corrupt the little youngster. Typical naughty Jerry. looks like Blueboy found it funny at least.

Custard wont let Roswell out of her sight for more than five minutes, he tries to escape off for a little while to play with Jerry or Sky and she flaps her wings at him ferociously until he pays her attention again!

Monty has been showing the Infrared dot on top of the TV who is boss and it's clearly Monty, he was dancing about and tapping on it with his beak, he actually knocked it off the TV so I had to Bluetack it on. He's also taken to landing on my hand when I am typing at my PC and biting me well it's more of a pinch really and then he flies off.

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Hidden Budgie Karaoke

Jerry has been singing behind the wooden climbing frame, I think he thinks that if we can't see him then we can't hear him either and he can do what he likes without attracting any attention to himself. When we first got Roswell and Snowy we could barely see their eyes because they puffed themselves up so much (being beautiful big exhibition budgies) and wondered if it would hinder their sight when flying but recently we have noticed that we can see their little beady eyes a lot better, which is nice. Monty has been climbing on top of the lattice ball again (on top of the play centre) and this time telling the little plastic budgie off - we're not sure what it did wrong but all of the birds seem to tell it off and bash it with their beaks. Lots of pics from us to you.. Marianne and the gang of feathered beaky ones..

Didn't I tell you Snowy was addicted to corn?

He stood on it while the others pecked at the edges to get to the last of the tasty niblets. He was like a budgie on a podium, I half expected him to do a little dance. Lately he has taken to spinning the plastic budgie (attached to the play centre) round and round. He also feels the need to detach the bell ball from the end of the hook and fling it as far as he can - like a discus. Here they are - my favourite trouble makers.. Roswell "Ah, a photo opportunity!"

A paddling pool and some mysterious orange stuff

Thankfully today in Budgie land things have been a lot calmer – maybe due to the troops sleeping separately or maybe just cos they were scared of the high winds today.

Budgies seem to have hopefully grasped the concept of “budgie shall not bite budgie”

Who is this little white fella Roswell? – is he eating our millet?

I have my eye on you and yes I did try some of the orange concoction how did you know?

 

I’m hiding tee hee, she doesn’t know I’m here

 

I’m a cute little puffball and I wouldn’t ever hurt any budgie

I found a bargain when I went to do a little shopping, it’s meant to be a “double cat feeding dish” but I thought it would make a great paddling pool for the boys.  So far Monty has ventured in which is a start – the ping pong balls seemed to help :)

In my efforts to vary their diet I made a cauliflower, sweet potato and couscous mash for the birds, they had a slight nibble and will get more tomorrow morning!

There is plenty in the fridge so they’d better like it or it’s on the menu for us this week – sssshhhhh don’t tell the husband!