Busy busy busy in the Birdroom this week - and we're only two days in! Yesterday I got in two baby Alexandrines and two Sun Conures, and today it was seven handraised cockatiels! Penciled in for Thursday are a pineapple Green Cheek Conure (The Trio are going to have their beaks out of joint!) and a Lutino Red Collar - never seen one of those 'in the feathers' so I'm obviously very excited. Her breeder is also bringing me a visitor - she's handraising a Moluccan cockatoo! I've never met one before, since I typically only get Sulfur Crests like Georgie in the Birdroom, so that's another exciting event :D
Anyway... to the photos! The new kids have settled down really well, everyone is playing nicely... save for the Green Cheek Conure Trio who are really pushy, and Georgie who thinks it's beneath her to share her playstands with these "lesser" birds! Such a prima donna our Georgie girl is!
We have a fairwell; little Kaki boy has gone to his new home today, and I know he will settle in nicely and be kind of the place in no time! Here he is, waving goodbye :D
Big four year old boy, Mango, is up the top - he isn't handraised, but likes exploring. His girlfriend, eight month Red, is below him. They spent most of playtime lurking between the cages here, hiding out from the other birds!
Big boy Mango screams a warning at a cheeky Green Cheek. Georgie feigns disinterest in the background!
The Trio of Trouble - three Green Cheeks! There's Trinity, the middle child, little Triss, the sweet baby, and Trouble - the big tough monster :D
Triss tries to entice Trin into grooming her!
"Pleeeeeeeeease?"
"Oh... I suppose!"
Olive and Jeebie are still living large and best buddies, aside from the occasional screaming match!
"This looks like a good toy!" Olive decides one of the baby Alexes is there to become his personal chew toy. The baby, for her part, didn't mind at all!
Here's the two babies - I suspect two hens, but it is hard to tell at ten weeks old - they are Alexandrines, Jade and Ruby seemed fitting names!
The girls took one look at Alex and went 'DAAADEEEEE!" They were so thrilled, they began begging food from him, chirpping avidly (Incidentally the baby Alex call is one of my favourite sounds ever!) and bobbing their heads, trying to be enticing. Alex was HORRIFIED. "Who are these scruffy little monsters who seem to be stalking me?"
Alex lunges at the kids to tell them to back off. (He wasn't going to bite at all, just warning them off).
Jade and Ruby aren't fooled - they know Alex is all bark. Bob bob bob go their little heads, chirp chirp please feed us, kind sir! They followed him all over the playstands while he tried to aviod them... what a crack up these guys are!
