Looking at Domino....

[fajrdrako]

I always hesitate to bother the baby budgie by looking into the nesting box, though yesterday I had a look and glimpsed a grey mass of feathers in the back. You can't see in it much without a flashlight, and I wouldn't disturb the baby that badly. Wisdom gave me an annoyed look as if to say, "What do you want?" Domino still has not emerged from the box, but I'm betting he will, very soon.

For a month, Wisdom has been spending almost all her time in the nesting box with the baby, only coming out for a few minutes at a time. For the past three or four days, she has been out of the nest most of the time, only popping back in occasionally. She clearly thinks the baby is big enough to be left on its own, and I suspect that means he's almost old enough to emerge.

This morning, my friend Marcelle came down for a cup of coffee. Domino was chirping so loudly we weren't sure whether it was him or one of the adults - but it didn't seem to be them. They were visible and silent. This is a far cry from a few weeks ago, when you had to put your ear close to the cage to hear Domino's faint little peeps.

So Marcelle wanted a peek and I took the opaque panel off the nest to look in. Domino was near the front of the nesting box, quite visible.

What a cute little bundle of fluff.

When I last had a good look at him, he was lying on his back and hadn't so much as one feather. Now he's a bundle of blue-grey fluffiness, with black streaks on his wings. He let us have a good look - he stretched a wing - then went running for cover underneath his mother, who was at the back of the box.

He's a great little guy.

Comments

[acampbell.livejournal.com]

Aw!! *squees and cuddles*

I want a baby budgie, too!

(or, I would, if I didn't have three cats!)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Definitely cats and budgies do not mix.

But for sheer cuteness, there isn't much that beats a budgie.

Mind you, there's a price to pay in noise and mess. (Birdseed on floor, always, even with little nets around the bases of the cages. Frequent vacuuming necessary.)

Of course, it's worth it.

Wisdom today is making up for a month of confinement in a nesting box. Such liveliness I have seldom seen. Every toy she owns is having a full work-out.

Her balance is back, too, which probably means her flight-feathers have grown in again.

[moonchildetoo.livejournal.com]

Awwww!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

You can tell what an adoring grandma I am. Such cuteness was seldom seen in an ounce of feathers.