Treats and sunshine

It's a lovely sunny day and I thought I would treat the fiends with a big plate of their favourite food - sweetcorn!

I hacked the nibblets off the cob and washed them. Then I smashed up some pine nuts and harrisons bird pellets. Sprinkled this mixture on the corn with some avian seaweed. I can get the fiends to eat nutritious stuff this way that they would ordinarily ignore - sneaky huh!

They love it and have no idea how good for them it is. Poor little fiends :)

I gave them some basil too so don't feel too sorry for them. These birds are treated very well indeed, they eat like kings. Of course Monty is the only true king!

A Birthday Dumpling

It's Dumpling's (Lilek's) birthday today! - he's around 5.

A whole year since he came to us.

He's a totally different bird these days. When he arrived he was quite the anti-social little budgie. Chittering at other budgies that came near. He also regurgitated constantly on his foot, self comforting or obsession perhaps.

Now he plays with his best bud Sky quite a bit and even Roswell and Monty sometimes. We are very happy with the changes in him and he'a a happy little chappy these days too!

Happy Birthday little Dumpling!!

Happy Birthday Blueboy and Sky!

On 5th October as well as being my 9 year wedding anniversary it was Sky and Blueboys too!

A whole year with us, which makes Sky 5 and Blueboy 3 years old.

They came to us together In October 2010 and have joined a happy flock.

Sky is great friends with Lilek, they whizz about the front room together causing mayhem and mischief. Blueboy is inseparable from Hector. Blueboy can be a nervous little budgie and Hector protects him, makes him feel safe.

Here are the birthday boys.

New Budgerigars Forum

A couple of days ago I tried to log into my favourite Budgerigars Forum only to find that it had been closed. I had made quite a few friends and looked forward to logging on several times a day to hear the latest news.

After a whole day with no budgie fix, I decided to set up a new forum and start the process of bringing the members back together.  I hope that we can grow and share ideas.

Maybe even bring in a few new people to share our enthusiasm of Budgies!

Join us at the new forum: http://budgerigarsforum.proboards.com/index.cgi

Monty and the gang will be waiting..



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I got round to putting something together for the fiends.  I do hope they like them.  I am happy that they are bird safe :)

I want to see Abbie nibble them, then I will know that they have the budgies seal of approval!

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Going to make some toys for the fiends!

I recently ordered some Stainless Steel Bells from: http://onceuponawing.com/Default.aspx

I bought these to replace all the dangerous and rusty metal ones I had. I do not want my birds to get heavy metal poisoning. I know this sounds like to much Metalica or Alice Cooper but it's actually quite serious and can kill. It came all the way from Florida to my little part of East London in the UK. As we can't get Stain

I also ordered a lot of wonderful stuff from http://www.chinchillas2shop.co.uk/

I am going to make the fiends some great bird-safe toys to play with. :)

Hot? have a camomile bath..

The budgies have been enjoying camomile tea baths for the past few days. They love to take a sip of the water and then have a wade through it.

Roswell and Jerry like to get particularly soaked, little Roswell puts his face right in it to make sure his beard spots get soaked.

Just the thing to cool down on a 26 degree day.

I use a two litre jug, steep the tea bag in 200ml hot water for two minutes and then top up with lovely cold water. Remove bag of course!

Serve to fiends in see-through glass dishes. Relax and watch them splash about and have fun.

Budgies on my arm!

More and more budgies keep landing on me these days. It's really strange (but in a good way) even Roswell and Jerry randomly land on me these days.

This morning Lilek landed on me, then Monty and then Roswell all at once!

Look at Roswell's size compared with Monty and Lilek, he's giant. He does feel a lot heavier too. One day I'll have to try and weigh him.

Don't ask about the leather glove - Lilek loves it, he's a bit of a perve..

Spoilt budgies

Corn and basil again today. Well, they do love it :)

Jerry tried to bathe in the basil, with varying degree's of success too. He did this while the others tried to eat it though. I don't think they were too impressed. Bathing in ones food is not considered good table manners.

Abbie has taken to climbing to the top of the new ladder toy and singing, sometimes upside down. I have also seen her nibble at the wooden blocks!

On another point, we got a new Chest of drawer from a lovely Freecycler. We have used it to house Blueboy and Hector's cage. All of the budgies love to run around on it and explore it. They are getting less scardy!

Sorry about the quality of the photo, I used my mobile phone camera as my digital camera batteries had gone splat.

In my quest to teach the budgies to alphabet I decided that all vegetable matter given to them would begin with the letter C today.

So off to the Shop we rushed to purchase Chives and Corn.  This was served to the fiends along with Carrot and Courgette.

I think they were happy with the results. They are always happy to see corn - plus it's 28p per cob in Asda at the moment!

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