Tag: birds

climbing birds and flying birds

(Blue) Belle is a very deft climber–Sparty (yellow) is a very capable flyer, considering..Striker (green) uses a stealthy combination of both, so it’s hard to decide what he specializes in

Bird love

Our three parakeets all hang out together a lot of the time, and feed one another, but Belle and Striker are especially affectionate toward one another and groom each other quite a bit. (3/27/2008)

Sparty with Striker and Belle

Ohio, 3/18/2008 We got a third parakeet and they’re quite a flock with the three of them hanging out together! Sparty (yellow, far left) is a very wild bird! In this photo, they were all just meeting each other. (Striker is the green one and Belle is the blue one.)

Yellow bird in the house!

3/18/2008, Ohio We added another bird to our flock yesterday evening! A young yellow Australian-descended broad-tailed parrot (aka budgerigar aka parakeet) named Spartan Don “Buzz” Barksdale (or Sparty) joined our two other birds, (Blue) Belle and (green) Striker. These budgerigars are a small species of bird, but Sparty is definitely a big guy. He has… Continue reading Yellow bird in the house!

Belle and Striker

Jessica and I got new birds today. They were born some time around July 2007, and they are a pair of parakeets (aka budgerigars aka parrots). The blue or turquoise one is Jessica’s, named Belle, and mine is the green one which I named Striker.