You can also see a video of Dodger grooming Belle on the pacificpelican.us/oggcast.
Tag: photos
treat sticks
Belle and Sparty on the curtain rod
Jessica’s flying birds photo
New parakeets photos and video
Dodger joins the flock
We’ve called him Little Blue since we got him (he’s a different, less green kind of blue than Belle) and now we’re starting to call him Dodger–we’ll see if that one sticks. But whatever his name, he is an energetic, adventurous and very young little parakeet–he’s been a lot of fun so far and already gets along well with Belle and well enough with (the very territorial) Sparty but the new bird is quite a handful when let out of the cage. Dodger just takes off, sort of flying but not really, swampboating his way along the floor until he hits–thud–the wall. When Belle is down with him things are much calmer as Dodger just follows Belle around the room.
Sparty stands on one foot
I’m always amazed by the personality of our little yellow bird Sparty (aka Sparta). She [Jessica is pretty sure Sparta’s a female now, and I don’t disagree] is so funny–here she was next to Belle on the cage standing on one leg for a while, long enough for me to quietly grab the camera and take this quick snapshot.
Our parakeets travel with us
Our birds are good travelers–they tend to come with us on car trips, provided we have a pet-friendly destination. Here Sparty and Belle are hanging out in their travel cage at my parents’ house when Jessica and I were in town for my sister Ellen’s wedding on June 12, 2010.