"foxidrive"  wrote in message
news:1108881904.ed4c7efadb2032739888b510042a56f7{at}teranews...
> On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 04:35:16 +1100, foxidrive wrote:
>
> Reposting under a different subject, to bore you again ;)
>
>
> > We have a female lutino yellow budgie of about 4 years of age who is a
real
> > homebody, even though she has free access to the house.  She hardly goes
> > any place except on the top of her cage and down the ladders and sticks
> > around the edges.  This isn't such a surprise as our past three budgies
> > liked their homes a lot and only one or two other spots.
> > We hoped she'd become quite tame but she had quite a traumatic
experience
> > being introduced to the house and cage...   Penny, the budgie, is finger
> > tame and loves to come onto my hand and forearm and is beginning to
crawl
> > up our sleeves to shit, I mean sit, on our shoulders, but she dislikes
> > being touched anyplace at all except on the beak.
> >
> > Flying isn't quite second nature to her, and she has no confidence on
> > landing on anything except her cage and our heads.
> > Her feet are ok, so it's not a physical issue...  when I brought her
home
> > she escaped just as I was transferring her from the cardboard box to her
> > cage and she spent the next 20 minutes flying around freaking out, not
> > knowing how to land (straight from a small cage in a petshop) and when
she
> > did land on the carpet her claws were caught in the carpet fibres which
was
> > probably pretty distressing too - not to mention the curtains, falling
> > behind cupboards and speakers, and here I was trying to catch her into
the
> > bargain (stupid of me, I know).  I suspect the entire episode gave her
the
> > heebie geebies about flight - but the bright side and that is she is
> > unlikely to attempt to make a dash for freedom - though we are very
careful
> > about open doors and always keep external doors locked.
> >
> > Penny has a lovely disposition, though was very nippy to begin with, and
> > really enjoys standing on my finger in front of the oscillating pedestal
> > fan - she makes a sound like a gargle when she's happy and shakes her
tail
> > feathers in glee when the air rushes past her.
> >
> > She has lots of mirrors around the place, which she keeps constant
company,
> > so she's probably bonded to the pretty yellow budgie in them. :)
> >
> > For those that would like to meet Penny, here she is investigating a VHS
> > video cassette case - her favourite game for a year or so was to throw
them
> > off the top of the TV and the top of her cage, and chew the paper ones
to
> > bits!!  Better that than the picture frames, we think. :)
> >
> > http://web.aanet.com.au/foxidrive/pics/penny009.jpg
> >
> > And here is Penny, looking like she's just refluffing her feathers, in
her
> > palacial manor.
> >
> > http://web.aanet.com.au/foxidrive/pics/penny010.jpg
> >
> > I just subscribed to this group and enjoyed reading the tips and
messages,
> > so this is my introduction of Penny the Wonder Budgie!

lovely little bird there. i also had a yellow hen once.




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