April 2008
April 2008
Sparty, Striker and Belle, our colorful budgerigars, share some closeness. (3/29/2008)
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)
The birds took some time for a bath while I cleaned their cage. (3/24/2008)
They like being high up as well as down on the low perch, but getting between them was made easier by the ladder–until beaky Belle starting going to town chewing the rope. So now that rope ladder is out and they have a new, fixed ladder with seashell steps to climb on. (3/20/2008)
Sparty was introduced into the cage after Striker and Belle, and hailed from a different flock–here they are getting to know one another still. (3/18/2008)
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.)
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 a bit of dark coloring on his head and tail and some dark
trim on the wings, but over much of him he is light yellow and green.
Jessica chose him for his friendly and outgoing personality.