Boisterous fiends splashing about and a dumpling being naughty as usual

The birds had a little bath-ikins yesterday which they seemed to enjoy tremendously - especially Monty. We have a little shallow saucer which my husband thought might make a good "bird bath" so I put a little tepid water in and Monty came bounding over and jumped in it - look at the picture below you can see that he was very enthusiastic about it!

I don't know if I have mentioned this before, I have a confession to make - I call Lilek "Dumpling" - it's his slightly rounded shape and the way he waddles along - of course I mean it affectionately and cutely. He also dives at our plates of food whenever he gets the chance.

Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner are spent fending him off of toast and pasta - he actually landed on my sandwich yesterday and the day before got some ketchup on his tail from waddling through my husbands food.

I know that he just wants to eat with us as he sees us as part of the flock which is fair enough, so yesterday I sliced up some apple and fed him some from my plate (not the same bits as I was eating obviously) as we watched TV and he seemed vaguely satisfied with that, although I am not sure he liked the apple and he still tried to eat my sandwich!

Maybe if I only ate budgie food there wouldn't be a problem...pass the trill and babycorn!

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Splish Spash I was taking a bath

Well not me exactly.. but my four birdies.

I had to hold up a glass dish to Snowy later on for him to take a dip in as I guess he's not into communal bathing, being a modest bird.

Monty also had a great time playing around and skipping about energetically like a little Sparrow.

[caption id="attachment_143" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Monty taking a bath"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_146" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Roswell and Jerry bathing"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_145" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Jerry and Roswell flicking water everywhere"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_144" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Monty being energetic"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_147" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Monty playing"][/caption]