And then there were five..
The budgies (Lucy, Polly, Lemon, George and Blithe) were treated to some baby corn to try and cheer them up.
The girls destroyed their pieces very quickly, it’s hard to tell if they ate any of it.
Lemon is looking a little scruffy today because he is moulting.
It’s a lovely sunny day and I thought I would treat the fiends with a big plate of their favourite food – sweetcorn!
I hacked the nibblets off the cob and washed them. Then I smashed up some pine nuts and harrisons bird pellets. Sprinkled this mixture on the corn with some avian seaweed. I can get the fiends to eat nutritious stuff this way that they would ordinarily ignore – sneaky huh!
They love it and have no idea how good for them it is. Poor little fiends 🙂
I gave them some basil too so don’t feel too sorry for them. These birds are treated very well indeed, they eat like kings. Of course Monty is the only true king!
In my quest to teach the budgies to alphabet I decided that all vegetable matter given to them would begin with the letter C today.
So off to the Shop we rushed to purchase Chives and Corn. Â This was served to the fiends along with Carrot and Courgette.
I think they were happy with the results. They are always happy to see corn – plus it’s 28p per cob in Asda at the moment!
She’s settling in so well, I am so happy with her progress. Not only has she got both Jerry and Hector running after her giving her food but she now comes and has a nibble at the vegetables I put out for them.
Good girl Abbie 🙂
She makes such cute and funny little noises too, really different from the boys, a bit like Gizmo!
Here are some photos from the day – the fiends have had corn and basil so are more excited than usual.
I just gave the budgies a big plate of vegetables and egg and they are currently tucking in and flinging it everywhere with glee.
The vegetable mess contains the following:
The Bird Pellets and Pine Nuts are sprinkled into the mix just to make sure that any fussy birdies still get their vits!)
Sweetcorn niblets (rich in vitamin B)
Broccoli grated (rich in vitamins B, C and K)
Carrot grated (A, K)
Egg chopped (A,D,E,K)
Chopped Pine Nuts (B,E,K)
Crushed Harrisons Superfine Bird pellets (All manner of healthy things)
Today is a lovely sunny day and the fiends are listening to some Spandau Ballet on the radio (Heart fm) while preening themselves and making lots of mess.
We got the fiends a couple of new balls, some millet and some treat sticks yesterday.
We found that the budgies seem to like Yellow and Orange toys the best so hopefully they’ll love the balls we got them, they are meant to be cat balls and have little paw prints on them and a tinkly thing inside.
We like to put them in their budgie soap dishes to play with. Â Snowy really loves to sing to them.
Not sure that Custard appreciated me taking a quick snap of her while she was trying to snooze. Â It was so cute that I had to though.
Meanwhile little Dumpling put on his bestest smart budgie face and told me a lot of stuff about nuclear physics that I didn’t know before.  He wouldn’t let on but I think he had been to the Library – or Idea Store as they are called here in Tower Hamlets!
Roswell obviously sneaked out to Toni and Guy to get his little quiff trimmed and gelled especially for these photos. Â He must have heard hubby and I talking about getting some new batteries for the camera.
I decided to update the “Let me introduce you to my four feathered fiends” page because, well there are now nine and it’s been a while since there were only four, so it only seems fair to include the other five.  I wouldn’t want to be accused of favouring one bird over another, no that would not be right!
For the updated page on Monty, Snowy, Roswell, Jerry, Sky, Blueboy, Lilek, Hector and Custard click here: Â https://featheredfiends.wordpress.com/2010/06/22/let-me-introduce-you-to-my-four-feathered-fiends/
Just gave the birds some corn, they are madly picking away at it, Monty went completely nuts and his eyes went to tiny pin-points 🙂
They seem to love the corn more than millet. I don’t give them it too often because it’s really messy and makes all of their feathers sticky –
not to mention I am going to have to scrub the tiles on top of their cage later on but that’s no big problem.
Or else what you may ask – well I didn’t want to find out so I gave ’em stuff.
Monty wouldn’t let me near his food in case I stole some, he said I eat more than the budgies and it wouldn’t be fair on them if I shared. He has a point.
Sky did his Taxi Driver impression, it was very good.
The rest just scoffed food and sang all day long – it’s what they do best.
Another thing they do very well is bite stuff – Snowy bites the sandpaper I put in their play-station, he has made it his goal to tear off as many small pieces daily that he can – I am worried what he is doing with them, perhaps building a raft or making a loofah so Monty can scratch him in the bath.
Blue-Boy also loves biting stuff, I keep having to shoo him away from the budgie screen as he’s chipping away at the wood – maybe he’s whittling it to make it pole-like, we’ll have to see.
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