And They Call It Birdie Love

The various misadventures of my birds: budgies Harriet, Nelson, Pascal, and Pippa; Spencer the green cheek conure; and Beatrix the cockatiel. With pictures. Gone but never forgotten: Alice, Horatio, Oliver, Phin, Turkey, and Violet. <3 Submit your flock!

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This is what the "Easter Beanny" looks like from the side. From this angle she looked more like a bumble Bea (I just need to put some black stripes on her)

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Little ice cream cone man (with judgmental Harriet)

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He might be a feral disaster gremlin, but he's MY feral disaster gremlin <3

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Stinky chicken took a bath

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Pascal has been doing a little Extreme Molting (he looks a lot better now, but he was looking pretty rough for awhile)

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He preened out this loose tail feather (he's molting) and then used it to scritch himself

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We got a visit from the Easter Beanny!

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The Budgie Boys (and Spencer, who thinks that he is also a Budgie Boy)

(Obligatory reminder to supervise your birds when different species are out together!)

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Hello!

I live in the lower level of a duplex, and last Sunday afternoon it started raining sewage in my house due to the upstairs neighbors' toilet backing up. We are all okay and the house is livable again but it was a scramble there for about a week. We stayed in a hotel with the cat, but the birds had to stay with a friend of mine because shockingly we couldn't find a hotel that was willing to allow us to have ten birds in one hotel room.

The birds are all very happy to be home. Above is Spencer enjoying some hand cuddles on the first morning back after the debacle.

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WET BEANUT

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He's so bean-shaped

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He's SO WEIRD

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I'm still just amazed sometimes that she is a real creature that lives in my house

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Harriet continues to terrorize Nelson by being nice to him

(She's doing really well! Health-wise, that is. Behaviorally she is still a dinosaur whose love language is bullying)

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He looks like he's wearing a little tiara of floof

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Lumpy

(She's in that stage of molting where she's just angry at everything all the time and desperately wants to be scritched but will also bite you if you actually try to scritch her)

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@wetleavesandfeathers got the birds some half-log perches as a Christmas present and Pippa has been having a really good time chewing on hers because the color of the bark on the perch has rubbed off ALL OVER HER FACE