So it’s a good job that they have very different personalities. While they are both equally inquisitive and confident, if you pop a finger in their cage, one will come up and give your finger loving lovebird nibbles, a bit like lovebird kisses. While the other one tries to take hulking great bit lumps out of your finger. OK, so that’s a tad of an exaggeration as their beaks aren’t that big, but I’m sure that’s his intent!
Obviously this means that one’s a boy and one’s a girl. However Ian and I differ over which is which (although it’s patently obvious that the sweet natured one is a girl).
On the subject of birds, a week or so ago I scrumped a sunflower head for Larry. Admittedly, it wasn’t as successful as I thought it would be. Firstly, the process of scrumping the sunflower turned out to be more nerve wracking than we thought (we went for a little detour round some sunflower fields on the way home from the vet) and there were a surprising number of farmers lurking in fields.
After scuttling home armed with our haul of two sunflower heads, I put one in Larry’s cage waiting for his squawks of delight. Unfortunately, Larry’s opinion of sunflower seeds in situ on a sunflower head was less enthusiastic. It was as if we had given him a cow and told him to make his own cheese.
Eventually he worked out that there were sunflower seeds in this ‘thing’, but even then didn’t seem overly impressed.
Tinkerbelle went to the vet for a checkup and she’s been given the thumbs up. She will continue to take heart medicine for ever now, however she is back to being fully fit. The vet said she could go for walks of half an hour or so (initially they said short walks – however we didn’t know how ‘short’ short was, and asked the vet to clarify) so we took her out yesterday when it was cooler, and she was full of energy. It was very nice to see. We will have to watch the mammary tumors, though.
The temperature dropped over the last few day and for the first time in months it has been cool enough to have lunch outside, Still no rain, but I am sure that that’s on the way….