Bud

Hi Suds!!! 8) Personally, I don't eat anything except bird seed and millet sprays - unless it is on somebody else's plate. If it belongs to someone else, I'll eat it! Particularly fond of biscuits and muesli bars as I like crunchy stuff. Corn and peas are fun. I can fling them quite a distance! :bounce: Caryl gets upset when I pinch the choc chips off her pudding :lol:

Some of us are not so bird brained as to find ourselves in such a position! :roll: I confess to falling in the tropical tank once but quickly showed Caryl that I could swim! 8)

I tawt I taw a puddy tat!!! I did! I did taw a puddy tat!!!

You got something against us budgies? :roll: 8)

For some reason they won't give me baked beans!

Well hello gorgeous. Wanna come visit me some time? 8)

Blue of course. All the intelligent ones are!

I have a standard sized bird cage, 45cm high x38 front to back x 34 wide which hangs from a bungy in the lounge. I get to fly all through the house from about 5pm until I get sick of it and go back into my cage. Sometimes I trick them and hop in and wait until Caryl gets up to shut my door and I zip back out real fast! I am not very popular with her at the moment as I seem to have developed a penchant for eating books :-? To train us budgies you need to start us real young, just out of the nest. We are highly intelligent and within 6 months will have picked up various words or phrases repeated within our hearing (and some we aren't meant to :lol: ). If you get two of us we will be too busy talking to each other in our native tongue to want to talk English. Caryl was told I would be less likely to talk or interact so much if I had a mirror too so she won't get me one. I have to make do having lengthy conversations with various shiny objects instead! I am given toys to play with and my favourites are a tennis ball and a yellow plastic ball with holes in it so I can pick it up easily and fling it about. Caryl bought me a Weeble too and I like bashing it about. I am also good at dropping stuff off tables or benches, like pens, nail files, TV remotes and stuff. I would like to breed but unfortunately have yet to find a lovely lady budgie in the vicinity. I can say quite a few words, when I feel like it. I've been heard to mutter; I tawt I taw a puddy tat puddy puddy puddy (came up with that one on my own!) Testing! CQ CQ (Grant is a radio Ham and taught me that one) Give us a kiss (picked up from my nan when staying with her for two weeks) I can also whistle in Morse Code, wolf whistle and ring like the phone. I have also been heard to say "OK bye" but nobody taught me that. I surprised them with it :lol:

How could you ever consider a lovebird! Us budgies are far superior: Cuter Friendlier More colourful More talkative Eat less so cheaper to run And of course we poo smaller. This is important as if we free range (as I do) it's easier to ignore :lol:

He sounds like my kind of bird!! :bounce: I have never managed to escape from my house but am impressed with his flying ability. I assume he has a name? You ought to see me skim past people in the hallway - just above head height :lol: Your bird is a lot older than me as I am only 3. 8)

What about me? My cage hangs in the corner by the gas fire and I am cold!!! Pssst Caryl, take me up to the computer room with you before I freeze to my perch

While the tank lids were up so Caryl could catch an ailing BN, I took the opportunity to test the waters 8) In I go!! Yeeha! I can dog paddle Who lowered the water level? I think I can I think I can... Phew, made it!

Caper, are you comparing me to a fish?? :-? I am sure I have a lot more personality but Sweety has a bigger house than me. At least I am able to be let out and can fly around the house on my own. Beat that Sweety! :bounce: Look forward to seeing pics of Sweety as she sounds tasty... err lovely :lol:

WOW! Hello gorgeous Are you interested in pretty blue budgies by any chance?

You keep giving me ideas livingart! 8) In chat last night someone implied I mught not be doing my own typing. Here's proof I have my own budgie size computer...

Livingart I never thought of a bebo site. Not sure I have the time :-? Please don't mention keeping my pecker up. It was that very topic that caused my embarrassment at the parrot joke! :oops: Cheesejawa, I do not have fish of my own as I would find the maintenance a bit difficult. I can only lift so much and buckets are beyong my capability. I am happy to admire others' fish. Dixon 1990, yes I really did fall into the 250 tank! It has a glass lid in 3 sections. The front section broke so there is an 8cm gap running the full length of the tank. Caryl had the wooden lid up so she could feed the fish and I was helping. I can fling bottom feeder pellets a good distance! 8) . I lost my footing and fell in. While attempting to get out I flapped under the glass sheet and Caryl couldn't get her hand in the gap and under me. Luckily I turned around and managed to make it back under the open space so she could get her hand underneath. I was one very frightened and soggy budgie Caper I wuold love to visit but our quarantine regulations wouldn't let me back into NZ without long term isolation and I wouldn't like that

Thanks to my friend zev for the avatar small enough to use. Yes, it's ME!! 8)

I don't do my own water changes. My carers do it for me. I also don't rearrange my cage. I don't have my own fish but am wondering about keeping a few parrot fish :lol: When my carer lifts the lid on her tank I like to perch on the edge and drink out of it but I fell in once so am extra careful as I got stuck between the water and the glass sheet and it was frightening

Hi all. Thought I ought to introduce myself to those I haven't met. My name is Bud and I am 2 and a half, but very mature for my age 8) I enjoy teasing the neighbour's cat and playing with my carers. I really enjoyed meeting many of you at conference. here I am with a few of my new friends... I got to ride over to Nelson with wilson. and met zev and Kevin I go to meet lots of others too as they came to visit me (they wouldn't let me in the restaurant) but we didn't get photos. I enjoyed the social evening on Friday night but blushed at the parrot joke John Eastwood told everybody! :oops: