Budgies - Especially for Terra.

Thanks, Pam... wonderful photos...
I'll come back and comment more later. xxx

They are lovely and all look very happy. They are such animated, cheerful birds.

Thank you both - they are a happy little bunch on the whole :o)

Your budgies have beautiful markings and colours...
Apart from one budgie trying to mate Dickie Dove, do any of the budgies pair off and try to produce baby budgies ? :o)

a lovely blog Pam.

Thanks Sue. They now and again have a go when the hormones kick in Terra, but I really do think that I have a selection of 'gay' Budgies LOL. Only Whitey and one of the Musketeers are palled up, the rest all go around together :o) At the moment I have two eggs laid by a pair of my Cockatiels, they have pinched the little hideaway I made for the Quails to go to bed in. I have been in and pricked the eggs. There are far too many unwanted pet birds growing old in Pet Shops, I do not want to add to that. Also, I don't think I could part with any to a Pet Shop if I allowed it, so better this way. They sit on them for a while and then give up and carry on with life as before.

Good luck to you and your gay budgies... Lol. :o)
as you say, too many unwanted pet birds in the world already... don't want to make more...

Loved your blog and photos.

Thanks everyone, wouldn't be without 'em, warts and all LOL

Lovely blog, Pamazon! The yellow budgie reminds me of one my dad used to have many years ago. It would sit on his shoulder & nibble at his earlobe, on occasions it would draw blood too! He used to keep many budgies & let them out of their cage at the weekends then, when it came to putting them back in, we would all spend half an hour or more trying to capture them!

When I lived in Spain my wife & I had 3 budgies. One was very old & another was very young. My wife often let them out of their cage to walk around the table. The young one would often nibble her pens while she was trying to write & if she tried to shoo him away he would "scold" her! You really get to see that most animals have a distinct character all of their own, just like any human! We had a lot of fun with them.

Great stories, Balcony... and wonderful budgie memories :o)

That's a great story Balcony, each one has a different character as you say.. Many years ago I had a blue one called Peter and we used to have a small table and put all his toys on there. He loved Orange and Red ones, he would pick them up and drop the lot on the floor ready for us to pick up again. We would sneak a white one in sometimes and he would get absolutely furious, didn't the poor white toy and ourselves get it in the neck from him LOL.

Budgies love to drop things deliberately, don't they...

Crocus has an enclosed bird bath which I fix to the front of his cage each day. It has no water, but is full of little plastic men etc. ...

I call this bath his annexe ... Lol.

He chats up the toys in the bath, especially those with mirrors, and then, just when he thinks the toy is impressed with him, grabs it by the neck and chucks it onto the floor of his cage with gusto. Each toy lands with a very loud bang, which can be heard around the house...

Every evening I return the toys to the bath and remove it from the cage... ready to repeat the whole procedure the next day... :o)

LOL, that's like mine was, it keeps them happy doesn't it? I have toys like that for the smaller parrots, you fill them with bits and bobs, all get thrown out and I put them back again. I love the bath 'annexe' LOL.

lovely pam, pretty birds and so colourfull, tweet tweet

Television this evening.... Friday 4th Sept. 09....
BBC 2 ~
7.00 pm - 7.10 pm. The Great British Parakeet Invasion. :o)

oooww sounds great Terra will set hard drive, just incase his lordship doesnt want to watch it lol

It is a repeat.. and I think I've seen it before... .but very interesting how these birds now live in gardens and parks around the South East of England :o)

i did see an artical one them being here, so they must have addapted to our climate because its not that warm lol why would they want to come to rainy miserable uk heheh

Chilly and windy here today.... I guess the parakeets are coping well because they have bred and made lots more baby parakeets... Lol.

very windy and cold here to with rain showers, dont think they should bother coming here to blackpool lol

Lol.... but I guess they will eventually spread to other parts of Britain... Clarice could have parakeets on her wires instead of starlings... :o)

yep she would,, would be nice to see more colourfull birds on our shores Terra,:o)

Maybe the Parakeets would start talking...
that could be a new attraction for Blackpool.... Lol.

lol, :o))

It sure would be better than starlings, like you say Sandra bring plenty of colour to Blackpool, lol:o))

I've just watched the Parakeet programme... it started off by mentioning Blackpool as a typically English place..Lol.

ive taped it so will watch it later lol

Oh, I missed it, I guess it was the Ring Necks, I think in time they will want to cull them as they do in the USA, they are very prolific breeders - my Billy-Whizz in an Indian Ring Neck.,

Yes, it was the ring-necks... I thought by mentioning the show on this blog you would be alerted to it....

I've just discovered it is on You tube ... google BBC parakeet invasion...

I think I've seen it before on TV. I've just watched it again. A brother of mine keeps Parakeets. I don't think he would ever let them go wild!

http://s133.photobucket.com/albums/q69/pamazon_2006/?action=view&current=BillyWhizz-1.flv.

If you can be bothered to put this long link in LOL, you can see and hear Billy-Whizz chatting.

I had a friend down South who kept Quakers, he was out in a small village in the country and he let his Quakers out each day and they flew all around the countryside, but always came back at night to be fed and to sleep in their aviary. His partner died and I lost touch with him, so will never know what happened to them all.........:o(

Lovely blog Sandra, I never realised you rescued birds. Must have a look through your stuff. It's afull time job just finding out about people on here isn't it? I had 2 budgies when a child. Joey was green and had no flight feathers so always looked like a chick. he used to like sitting on my head nibbling my hair in a preoccupied way, and when he'd had enough would just flutter to the floor. His best friend, Stormy, named because of his beautiful stormy blue colours loved him. We used to think that he thought Joey was his baby as he used to feed him, they shared a cage. On reflection he may have thought of him as his mate as I believe it is also a mating ritual, but he never mounted him. Stormy used to love flying round the room, but was never one of those very tame birds. They lived together happily for very many years.

It's me, Pam, not Sandra who does the birds BA LOL. I'm in the West Midlands too. I had my very first Parrot in 1971 and have been hooked ever since. I have a Photobucket with all my birds and dogs on, if you have any time to spare, you can see some of them on there.

Amongst my Male Budgies I have three who spend their whole time together despite there being females there too, they just love each other.....:o)

http://s133.photobucket.com/albums/q69/pamazon_2006/

Came back here just to enjoy another look at your lovely budgie photos, Pam. Thanks again for this blog :o)

A rose by any other name Pam, apologies:-) I'll have a look at your photobucket???? whatever it is:-)

You're welcome Terra, I know how you love your Budgies. BA, a Photobucket is a free site where you put all your pics and little videos, anyone can go in and look at them and it is nice to keep. I have lots to add and edit some as some of my lovely birds have gone over the Rainbow Bridge......:o(

This lovely blog is now on GoYpedia pets category. :o)

Thanks so much Terra. Where do I find GoYpedia?