May 10, 2010
Tag: photos
parakeets in their cage
(Belle, Ava, Striker and Sparty)
March 3, 2010
Ava, Sparty, Striker and Belle
Jan. 30, 2010
by Jessica
Parakeets eating millet
Belle, Ava, Sparty and Striker attack their food, 1/20/2010
Sparty as you’ve never seen her before
Our yellow parakeet Sparty is quite a nice looking bird, but until now you may not have seen her this clearly. Jessica shot this photo of Sparty with our Nikon DSLR, and I think the detail is stunning! (Click the photo for large version.)
grooming birds
In the first photo, Jessica captured Sparty and Belle working their feathers over with their beaks. Though parakeets have a sort of retracting beak, unlike their larger broad-tail parrot cousins, when they take it out it is a serious piece of hardware. That’s good for eating seeds, of course, but it’s also useful in keeping their beautiful feathers clean–which they do very well by grooming themselves vigorously several times a day.
The second picture is just a nice group shot.
(photos by Jessica McKeown)
photos: Belle and Striker, Ava and Sparta
October 10, 2009
the four parakeets huddling together
Ava and Striker have a conversation
8/14/2009
four parakeets on a chair
Jessica took this photo of Sparty, Striker, Ava and Belle while they were sitting on one of their favorite household perches–the back of my office chair.