Took the wilted canes from last night's ginger harvest, wove them into the bird's cages. They can dry there and become nutritious shred toys. Put a pinch of chickweed near each to entice them to explore (they LOVE chickweed, just like chickens). Now the room is ginger grass scented :). Bonus shot of Sunny eyeing the new green stuff with cautious curiosity.
An Emily Dickinson poem my Pops had hanging in his woodshop is now a tribute to my bird Fren, Tenshi.
Tenshi went over the Rainbow Bridge last night. He and I had been Frens for almost 10 years.
He would voice my frustrations with automated phone systems. He would chime in on conversations, sing with other birds outside, and when I would leave, before closing the door I’d say, “You’re in charge, Tenshi.”
(con’t) #Parakeet#friends#birbs
Urban legend has it that the ancestors of this Mitered Parakeet (and many like him) escaped during a pet shop fire in the 1960s, but there is no historical record of such a disaster.
While growing up and even as an adult, we had several parakeets over the years and most all made wonderful pets, especially one named Mickey who was also blue and was my constant companion. This is dedicated to Mickey.
I'm a proponent of natural use of limbs, snouts, and beaks in animation (instead of making human-like feather hands etc). It shows how diverse interaction with the world can be, from the animal perspective, and breaks up the monotony of the human bias :D
In today's episode of things I never thought I'd be doing: wiping bird crap off my iPad. Yep, folx, you read that right. Peetie the #parakeet hung out with me, and I put a #budgie video on it for him. He watched for some time, occasionally wandering to a different position. In the process, he occasionally activated things, and toward the end, he kept doing what my iPad interpreted as the VoiceOver "Label Element" gesture. LOL
Echo dancing and singing with the "other bird" in the bathroom mirror. (youtube.com)
Echo loves to visit the "other bird" in the bathroom when someone goes in....