Remy has a misadventure...

[fajrdrako]

We had a budgie mishap last night. I didn't notice at first, but glancing over at the cage, I wondered where Remy had gone. He couldn't be outside the cage, since I hadn't opened the door, but he was nowhere to be see. Then I saw his tail, and realized he had somehow climbed inside the food dish. The food dish is very small, with a smaller opening, who'd have guessed a budgie, even a tiny young one, could fit inside? I thought he was playing. Maybe he was, or maybe he'd just fallen in by accident. I think he had just discovered what the food dish was for. The little guy is so young that everything is unfamiliar to him, and Logan, still being haughty with the tiny blue stranger in the cage, isn't helping him yet.

I soon realized - as much from the bemused expression on Logan's face as anything else - that Remy couldn't get out. His long blue tail was sticking out of the food dish, the rest of him was crammed inside, with no leverage for him to retreat.

The question was, how was I to get him out without hurting him? Now, the food dish is cleverly designed so I can put food into it from the outside without it being possible for wily little budgies to escape the cage. It was impossible to open it with him inside. I took the dish off the cage, carefully, not wanting to squash him or hurt him. I wondered about getting a crowbar, to take the plastic cup apart.. it would have been tricky, but it might have worked. It didn't come to that. After I poured out the budgie-food there was room for me to get a finger inside as well, which gave Remy something to hang onto, and then I cold pull him out backwards. He looked abashed. And fluffy. I think he might be considerably less than four months old. He's just a baby - all soft fuzzy feathers, and clumsy. Everything is new to him.

Little cutie.

I hope he'll be more careful with the seed dish next time.

Comments

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

Oh, the poor, bewildered baby bird!
(I rather suspect he could be less than 2 months).

Had the amount of seed gone down so that he couldn't reach it from normal position?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I rather suspect he could be less than 2 months

I'd be willing to bet on it. It's the clumsiness that's the big clues. Older budgies are not clumsy. This sweet little guy is like a kitten who hasn't quite found his feet yet. I don't think he can fly. He stares in large-eyed wonder at the world.

Had the amount of seed gone down so that he couldn't reach it from normal position?

I don't think so, unless Logan had eaten an amazing amount in the previous half hour when I wasn't looking. I think little Remy just doesn't quite know how to hang on properly to a perch yet!

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

He sounds completely adorable! And they are so wide-eyed as babies: without the white ring around the eye!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes, that wide-eyed look is just so lovable. As if everything he looks at is a big wondrous mystery and he doesn't know what to make of it. Which is probably true. Logan seems sophisticated and blase, in comparison.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

All budgies are loveable, but when they are innocent, button-eyed, juvenile fluffballs, they are particularly endearing!

[rosiespark.livejournal.com]

Glad he's okay! What a narrow escape! ;P

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes - I do hope he doesn't get into trouble while I'm at work! It he falls into the seed dish after I leave, he'll be stuck there all day - and poor Logan will have nothing to eat!

I'd better put some bok choy in the cage before I leave.

[rosiespark.livejournal.com]

he'll be stuck there all day - and poor Logan will have nothing to eat!

LOL. Poor Logan would have to go hungry, since budgies aren't carnivorous.

I'm assuming you named him after Wolverine but right now, the name is inextricably linked to another Logan in my mind... :D

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I'm assuming you named him after Wolverine but right now, the name is inextricably linked to another Logan in my mind... :D

You are half wrong, half right. I named him after both Wolverine and Logan Echolls - a nice synchronicity of name. And also Brigitte Logan, the action-heroine of some of Greg Rucka's novels. But she was really only an add-on coincidence, it was X-Men and Veronica Mars I was really thinking of.

And Logan Echolls was much in my thoughts at the time I acquired my Logan.

[rosiespark.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm glad there's a bit of Echolls in him!

PS I think I need a VM icon - any suggestions for good sites?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I have a few, usually from miscellaneous sites - I'll try to find out where I got them and send you a few URLs.

[iibnf.livejournal.com]

Poor little fellow! Little bird-brained fellow. Good thing you were around to rescue him!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes - and he'd better be careful while I'm at work. I think he may have learned not to fall into his food dish now, from experience. Budgies are good at learning from experience - if they survive the first experimental disasters!

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

I hope he's safe and sound when you get home!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Fingers crossed. I'd pour a libation to the gods if I had any libations. I'm hoping that little Remy, like many tiny and innocent things, has a way of landing on his feet.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

I hope so, too! Logan needs to learn to look out for him and be his 'big brother'!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Logan needs to learn to look out for him

That he does. But Logan is still depressed over the loss of Gambit and Pryde, and doesn't quite know what to make of this almost-helpless stranger. I'm sure he'll become helpful and protective soon - give him a few more days. I've had budgies nurturing a young one before - it's very sweet to witness.

But Logan isn't quite ready yet. I'm hoping it will happen soon.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

I hope so, too! They both sound such sweet wee guys!