birds
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For the past few days, Quinoa has been obsessively playing with this one toy in the cage. It’s roughly the same size as her and she’s been having the time of her life throwing it around, swinging on it, chewing on it, etc. I left the room for a few minutes today and came back…
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Right now, 7 budgies are warbling, chirping, and singing. Sparrow is the “drummer” and is rhythmically plucking one of the cage bars. It’s very loud. Fun fact about birds. They never go permanently deaf. Unlike humans, the little sensory hairs (are they hairs? Feathers?) in their inner ears can regenerate! I think this is the…
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This morning, we decided to go to the movies, which is something we haven’t done since early 2020. Any time we leave the house, we have to put the budgies in their cages. This can take anywhere between 1 and 30 minutes. People talk about “herding cats” and I imagine wrangling budgies is quite similar,…
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Last night around 11 pm, my NOAA weather radio went off with an alert for a severe thunderstorm warning. This storm was packing 60 mph wind and penny size hail. I checked the radar and saw that we were indeed in the storm’s path. We had 20 minutes to prepare. The storm didn’t look too…
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I often catch Valentine crawling around the outside of the cages. Sometimes, she’ll be on the sides or in the back between the cage and the wall. Often, when she does this, I will hear a “ting ting ting!” of metal and just see her plucking at the bars or a toy with her beak.…