budgies
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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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Every time I walk into the room with a salad, I have to immediately turn around and make a whole other salad for the birds because this happens: It usually begins with Quinoa, Lentil, and Stormy Day. They see those greens and they come flocking over to me like kids to an ice cream truck.…
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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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It is officially summer, which means a lot of daylight! I tonight’s sunset is about 9:13 pm. On our longest day in Michigan, we get something like 15 hours of daylight. To a budgie, those long days can only mean one thing: time to make more budgies! This can lead to Budgie Drama. About 2…
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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 bought this glass pie plate a long time ago for the purpose of making a cheesy mushroom dip recipe from my mom. Now, it serves a greater(?) purpose. About once a week (more frequently in warmer months), I fill up this dish with water, add a toy ball just for fun, and put it…
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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.…
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Being meteorologically inclined, I am always looking at the latest forecasts for my area. Confidence has been pretty high for the past few days that we are going to experience a heat wave next week. The forecast is calling for temperatures in the 90’s to around 100 F and the humidity is going to make…