Beloved Blue

A beloved blue

budgie flew

the coop

Wednesday

while cleaning.

Sweeped a hard

right

on Mockingbird

Street.

Gliding gusts of breeze …

slicing limbs of trees …

to show me

how she

can ascend bleak barriers

with greater ease

than we both dreamed

feasible.

Her blueness

melted

into the other

blueness

—while mine

congealed.

© brooke 2007



We Have TEN Eggs Now ...

Nine Eggs

Smaller than a nickel ... tiny.

One year ago, today, we bought Blue Boy

to cheer little Nani up ...

or try to.

She was in a lot of pain.

Nani had a broken hip.

She couldn't walk.

At all.

She had to be carried everywhere.

Blue Boy made her ... was going to say laugh,

but that's not accurate.

A year ago, today, a simple "smile" was a blessing.

Update on My Bad Birds

They have been real bad, and busy.

Started out with ( finding THREE eggs ) and

watched the number grow to five, then six,

and now seven.

Edited to add: 
Thursday, September 2, at 1:45 am
EIGHT EGGS!!!

Here are the pics I took when we only had six eggs ...

listen to me ... ONLY six eggs ... oy.

Of course, the mystery and shock of all this

stems around the fact

that I thought we had two male birds.

Chingado is obviously male with his

vibrant blue/purple cere ...

I just assumed that Blue Boy was male, too,

because his/her cere was pure white ...

so pure that it has a hint of blue/grey to it.

By the way, even this picture below

doesn't do justice

to the vibrancy of Chingado's cere.

No brown ... no pink ... no tan ...

Blue Boy's cere is just white.

I guess that means FEMALE ...

well obviously it does

because we have

SEVEN eggs

that he/she guards with

his/her LIFE.

I just took this pic ...

think he/she is laying another egg ... or about to?

We'll see what the next few days have to offer.

I'm trying to figure out WHEN he/she laid the first one.

There were already three eggs when I discovered

Blue Boy wasn't a boy.

My best calculation is guessing the first egg to be

about ten days old ... especially if they lay

every other day ... which seems to be about right

judging by how he/she is spitting them out.

So we'll start looking for a baby in another ten days or so ...

let's hope he/she is through laying eggs.

I don't know HOW he/she is going to feed

all of them.

Anybody want an exclusive, special, parakeet 

from Mama Crow?

I'm going to start taking tentative orders ... 

and we'll all watch to see how this new adventure plays out.

My Parakeets Have Been Bad

Holy Moly, I've got terror on my hands.

I bought my parakeets a fancy treat last week ...

some kind of peanut butter suet thingy

with lots of different seeds ...

and my blue boy tore it up so bad

that the only thing left of it

was at the bottom of the cage

where it fell through the wire grating.

They didn't even eat it ... just demolished it.

Hmmmm ... what's going on?

Blue Boy has been acting pretty weird lately.

Weird stuff like:

* Becoming an aggressor, and instigating mischief

by getting his roomate involved with his antics.

* Freaking out, and being extremely mean to me,

whenever I visited them.

At this point I realized that

he has been acting BEYOND "pretty weird" lately.

Beyond weird stuff like:

* Flirting with Chingado all the time

instead of fighting with Chingado all the time.

* Scratching around, and going in circles,

before sitting down ... ON the floor grates!

(When has he EVER sat down ... and, especially, WHEN
has he EVER sat down ON the floor grates?!?)

*Spending a whole lot of time

hiding under the food dish ...

which is a major feat

because he has to squeeze himself

to fit under there.

* Throwing a literal FIT

when I began

taking out "things" out 

so I could clean up his shredded suet mess

that fell beneath the grates

of the cage floor.

My O my ... Lookie what Mama found ... TERROR.

Holy Moly.

HE IS A SHE!!!!

Blue Boy is a devil with a blue dress on!

I have no idea what we are doing, or how

we're going to do it ... but ...

we are going to have babies!!!!

Time to do some serious research ... oh boy.