Their Story

[Aquiel]

This will be the on-going story of Pax, Starlight, and for lack of better names... This and That....

THE BEGINNING... :budgie:

It took almost three months to tie up all the loose ends and over an hours drive...
We stated out with just This and That, but my friend who accompanied me wanted to turn around on our way home and return for two of her own.

We were warned our bird were NOT hand tamed, as the lady who had owned them was VERY allergic to the dust created by the flapping wings (which was why she was getting out of the bird world).

We brought them home, housing all 4 birds in one cage for a few days untill we could get a 2nd cage.

My friend and I had "different" ideas on how to go about getting them used to us.
I wanted to take the paient route, while my friend wanted to overwhelm them and be done with it.
The overwhelming them route, stressed them out alot and basically Starlight turned into a screaming banshee everytime anyone walked by. Pax would hide in on the bottem of the cage allowing the other three birds to doggie pile on it.
Pax and Starlight also started biting and full out attacking when a hand entered the cage.
Seeing as I thought overwhelming was a bit too much, This and That were kidna left alone.

A few days after we brought them home I grew tired of Starlight's screaming when ever I wanted anything to do with my birds so I reasembled an old cage I had for Starlight and Pax and so now they live beside This and That.

A pic from Day 1

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a257/Aquiel/mini-P1010248edit.jpg

[Mistyoriline]

Hope you get everything strait...they are great budgies I like them all they will need alot of space and perches if you plan to keep them all together...but good luck I have 3 budgies and I love everyday of it:):budgie:

[Aquiel]

WHAT WILL THEY THINK OF NEXT

There's a 5 AM? No one told me

While I can be a morning person... it takes alot of alarms to actually get me out of bed and staying out of bed. I have all three alarms on my cell phone set and I also have a alarm clock that sounds like a horse which is situated far enough away from my bed that I actually have to get up to turn it off ( I usually jump right back into bed after).
Anywho, the 2nd day after having my new bird roommates, I went to turn off my horsey alarm, I got up... clicked it off and jumped back into my nice warm bed. I then noticed that my horsey alarm was still going off.
I remembered turning it off.... or so I thought....
Getting out of bed, I again flicked the switch on the back of the alarm. But to no avail, I still heard the loud horsey niegh. Getting rather alarmed I tried stuffing the alarm under the pillow, oddly the sound didn't get muffled. Rather confused and still half asleep, I started to panic... maybe I was losing my mind.
After searching the room for a few mins I noticed that the horsey neigh was coming from the bird cages, lifting off one of the covers, the horsey neigh turned into a shreek then the room fell oddly silent.
I muttered something to the offending bird..... no dout... it WASNT very nice... and crawled back into bed for another three mins till my last alarm sounded.

Periodically, I can't get my horsey alarm to turn off untill I remove the bird covers... odd how that works...


Tick... Tock...SQUACK

I have a clock hanging by my door that has the hour, minute and second hand... meaning it likes to go tick...tock...tick...tock... etc... Well appearently so does This... or is it That?... Who ever it is, they can keep pretty good time... even at 3 am.


The Golden Rule

"If you don't have anything nice to say, DONT say anything at all" Now who doesn't remember this saying? MY BIRDS, thats who!

I was sitting at my computer one night, the first night that Pax and Starlight moved to their new cages, to be exact, when I noticed the birds were conversing rather loudly... as I turned to look at them, they immediatly went silent.
Looking back at the computer, the birds got loud again, so I turned and looked at them, and again they went silent.
We repeated over and over again. I'd look away, they'd start talking, I'd look at them, they'd go silent.
Growing tired of being, no dout, bad mouthed by the four thingys, I got up from my chair, walked to their cage, and sternly said "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all!" Satisfied that I'd made my point, I turned to go back to my chair. Suddenly, my room erupted in SQUACKING galore, spinning around to give them the evil eye I found Pax was squacking so loud, and SO enusiastically that she fell off the perch she was on.


Peek-a-Starlight

Its been "fun" learning each of the birds unique personallities...

Like take Starlight... she (or he) is kinda "different" to say the least.
For starters, she screams like a banshee at times, and other times, she likes to "re-arrange" the furerature in the cage. It started out with the perches that I'd always find at the bottom of the cage... then it was the food dishes which would end up falling to the ground, and now its the swings, three times, this bird has actually MOVED the swing to another location in the cage.
Starlight also likes to play hide and go seek inthe food dishes. There's been more then one time that shes wedged herself into the smaller feed dishes or liesurely napped in the larger one (that finally had to turned into the water dish as, before settleing in for the night, Starlight would first empty the feed out and then climb in.).
And then there is the peice d'Starlight.
I went to say good night and put the covers on, when I noticed one of the swings resting on the bottom of the cage. And right beside the swing was Starlight, laying face first on the ground with her tush resting on the corner of the cage... tail straight in the air!
My first thought was 'OMG SHES DEAD!'
That's when I saw the eye blink... so next thought was that she and the swing fell and she broke herself.
I decided I was going to open the cage and see how bad the damage was.
When I went to grab Starlight, she started her banshee impression and then flew to the top of the cage. She certainly "seemed" fine, while she flitered about the cage, screaming her head off. I was still kinda in shock that a second ago, I was looking at a "dead" bird.
And at this very moment, Starlight, is attempting to move one of the bars of the cage to another part of the cage.....

[Budgiekin]

You should start a journal!! It would be perfectly suited to chronicle the ongoing stories of your budgies! Just click on Budgie Journals near the top of the page and select My Journal. Take a peek at other members' journals and see what others have to say too. :)

[Amy]

Lol, very good! How exciting!

[Mistyoriline]

Glad you are learning so much with them:)You sound like me:)

[George101]

wow starlight seems like an interesting bird wish mine were THAT interesting. I would like to read more of her adventures.