A new voice in my home...

[fajrdrako]

I was sitting here working on a Clex story and I heard peeping from the bird cage right behind me. That's nothing new: I have four noisy feathered guys who have a lot to say and like to say it.

But this peeping was a new voice.

This peeping is coming from the nesting box that Wisdom has been sitting in for a few weeks.

This peeping is.... Unfamiliar. Certainly not Wisdom's assertive voice, or Simon's loud chirp. This is a tiny sound, rather like a cricket. I suspect I couldn't hear it on the other side of the room.

I think someone hatched.

I can't see the baby; I don't want to disturb anyone by looking into the nesting box with a flashlight. But -

Either Wisdom has adopted a cricket or I have a fifth budgie.

Oh my goodness.

Is that why Wisdom was looking so happy and smug when she popped out of the box this morning?

Comments

[acampbell.livejournal.com]

I gather that baby budgies are horrendously ugly.

According to the pix in parakeet manuals, yeah! But, he/she will get prettier!!

Now, aren't you glad you didn't pitch that egg!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Pitch *that* egg? Never!

I don't think Wisdom will let me look at her for a while, so the baby's beauty is a moot point. I'm sure he'll be very cute when she has baby green-and-yellow feathers on her like a chick.