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Hello, everyone! Tilda the Dove is officially out of quarantine and has had the experience of meeting Princess Mallorn face-to-face. :scare:
We put their cages next to each other in the office for the whole day the day before yesterday and Mallorn was so rude to her. :nono:
Seriously, it was unreal. I know budgies have emotions/personalities, but I didn't know it was this obvious. Mallorn first hung on the bars of the cage and looked at me like "Mum, no, take me away from the peasant bird!" and I told her to behave and be nice, so she sat on a perch and glared at her (her eyelids were narrowed so it really looked like she was glaring) for a few minutes, before completely turning around and staring stonily ahead in the "budgie annoyed" posture (wings clenched, ruff up, puffed out chest) and every time I'd go in there, she'd climb up to the bars and chirp pleadingly.
Snobbish bird!
Yesterday, we had them in the living room together and since Tilda was very indifferent towards Mallorn's evident displeasure, I decided to let Mallorn out of her cage (while supervised) and explore. She promptly landed on top of Tilda's cage, methodically chewed all the bars, and played with Tilda's bell and swing through the bars of the cage. Tilda was totally fine, I wouldn't have let Mallorn continue otherwise, but just mildly annoyed at this brightly colored bird messing with her stuff.
Occasionally, Mallorn would stop and scrutinize the dove through the cage bars, clearly judging her. Tilda tried to be friends by jumping up to the perch closest to Mallorn but Mallorn ignored her and continued claiming various parts of her cage.
The good thing is that Mallorn goes into her cage voluntarily and even though Tilda is tame, she never goes back into her cage voluntarily, ever.
But as Mallorn flew in and out of her cage, Tilda realized cage is a good thing and now she goes back in after private flying practice back in her office.
I'll see if I can get some pictures!
Meanwhile, it's been raining for two days, and two days ago (same day Tilda got out of quarantine) a little dove appeared under a bush in our front yard. It was there the whole day, and we figured it was hiding from the rain, but it didn't do anything, it just sort of laid there. We decided to leave him and see if he flew away on his own, but he looks young. He is fully fledged and everything but we think he's a juvenile. He left early the next day and came back, still huddled under our bush, and I wanted to bring him in maybe to warm him up, but he seemed alert and besides, I've seen three fledglings (seperate places, seperate days) in the past week who have died, with no visible injuries, and I don't want to risk him having a communicable disease that would spread to our birds.
I put out some millet soaked with electrolyte and gave him some water, but he got a little bit scared and moved to under the tree. This morning, he's back under the bush, but hasn't touched either the millet nor the water.
Should I do anything?
Sorry for the long winded post Just wanted to update!
EDIT: Well, I've just discovered that my sneaky little Princess has written a rather rude poem to express her annoyance at, as she puts it, the "rapidly rising population of peasant birds". She will be getting a good talking-to! Goodness, where did I go wrong in raising her!!
http://talkbudgies.com/chit-chat/297505-all-peasants.html
Took you long enough! I just thought you should know.
I think some opinions should be kept quiet...Don't you tell Tilda! She's been nothing but kind to you.
Hmm. No, I won't tell her. I suppose she's been nice. For a serf.
Well, okay then.
We put their cages next to each other in the office for the whole day the day before yesterday and Mallorn was so rude to her. :nono:
Seriously, it was unreal. I know budgies have emotions/personalities, but I didn't know it was this obvious. Mallorn first hung on the bars of the cage and looked at me like "Mum, no, take me away from the peasant bird!" and I told her to behave and be nice, so she sat on a perch and glared at her (her eyelids were narrowed so it really looked like she was glaring) for a few minutes, before completely turning around and staring stonily ahead in the "budgie annoyed" posture (wings clenched, ruff up, puffed out chest) and every time I'd go in there, she'd climb up to the bars and chirp pleadingly.
Snobbish bird!
Yesterday, we had them in the living room together and since Tilda was very indifferent towards Mallorn's evident displeasure, I decided to let Mallorn out of her cage (while supervised) and explore. She promptly landed on top of Tilda's cage, methodically chewed all the bars, and played with Tilda's bell and swing through the bars of the cage. Tilda was totally fine, I wouldn't have let Mallorn continue otherwise, but just mildly annoyed at this brightly colored bird messing with her stuff.
Occasionally, Mallorn would stop and scrutinize the dove through the cage bars, clearly judging her. Tilda tried to be friends by jumping up to the perch closest to Mallorn but Mallorn ignored her and continued claiming various parts of her cage.
The good thing is that Mallorn goes into her cage voluntarily and even though Tilda is tame, she never goes back into her cage voluntarily, ever.
But as Mallorn flew in and out of her cage, Tilda realized cage is a good thing and now she goes back in after private flying practice back in her office.
I'll see if I can get some pictures!
Meanwhile, it's been raining for two days, and two days ago (same day Tilda got out of quarantine) a little dove appeared under a bush in our front yard. It was there the whole day, and we figured it was hiding from the rain, but it didn't do anything, it just sort of laid there. We decided to leave him and see if he flew away on his own, but he looks young. He is fully fledged and everything but we think he's a juvenile. He left early the next day and came back, still huddled under our bush, and I wanted to bring him in maybe to warm him up, but he seemed alert and besides, I've seen three fledglings (seperate places, seperate days) in the past week who have died, with no visible injuries, and I don't want to risk him having a communicable disease that would spread to our birds.
I put out some millet soaked with electrolyte and gave him some water, but he got a little bit scared and moved to under the tree. This morning, he's back under the bush, but hasn't touched either the millet nor the water.
Should I do anything?
Sorry for the long winded post
Just wanted to update! EDIT: Well, I've just discovered that my sneaky little Princess has written a rather rude poem to express her annoyance at, as she puts it, the "rapidly rising population of peasant birds". She will be getting a good talking-to! Goodness, where did I go wrong in raising her!!
http://talkbudgies.com/chit-chat/297505-all-peasants.html
Took you long enough! I just thought you should know.
I think some opinions should be kept quiet...Don't you tell Tilda! She's been nothing but kind to you.
Hmm. No, I won't tell her. I suppose she's been nice. For a serf.
Well, okay then.
