Hinkismom
Moving in
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- 5/22/17
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- Mary
..And thought I would join and introduce myself and our avian flock. Since this is a budgie forum, it's featuring our budgie, Hinki, who's the smallest member of our household even though she thinks she is the biggest and the boss. I'm Mary, retired along with my husband and we live in SW Florida. We're long time bird people, have shared our lives with our feathered flock ever since we were married almost 40 years ago.
We have three birds, a 28 year old cockatiel named Coconut- he's the matriarch of the group, still talking, eating well, and interested in everything going on,even takes a few flying laps across our great room, although he is slowing down. We also have a five year old female lovebird named Loki, ( I'm told Loki is a Norse god- god of mischief so that name fits her well), who can and does bite the bejibbers out of somebody when she wants to, but generally is a mischievous, funny little clown and a sweet velcro cuddly bird much of the time. Then there is little Hinki, a beautiful lilac female who came to us via adoption about 1.5 yrs ago ( her previous mama had to go to a nursing home and couldn't care for her anymore), and joined right in with our flock as though she had been there forever. Hinki is about 2.5 yrs old. Our birds are free flying when we are home (they go in their cages to sleep and when we go out), and for the most part they follow us around like little flying puppies as they want to "help", or at least see what we are doing.
Hinki was already tame and used to a lot of human attention when we got her, so when she came to us she set right in to let us know how she expected things to be- she started right in eating everything we put in front of her, including fruits and vegetables, checking out what the humans were eating to see if she wanted some of that too. She's a little eating machine, but she's also very active, so she's not fat.
And Hinki started talking about a week after we got her. She imitates whatever it is she hears that she wants to- her first words were "Loki Loki Loki", followed by "baby bird", and it went on from there. Now she says "good morning", "thank you", "where baby going?", "come here, right here", "I love you", "big boy" ( that's what we call the cockatiel), "hello baby", "I don't care', combinations of these words and a bunch of things I'm not sure I understand. And she talks all the time, loves to sit on a shoulder, or on another of her favorite sites, and chatter away.
What's also rather unusual, or so I read, is our lovebird's (Loki) acceptance and friendship with Hinki. I have read that female lovebirds can be aggressive, fight and even injure a smaller younger bird who's introduced to them, but Loki and Hinki have become great playmates and friends. They follow each other around, play "eagle" together- that's when they imitate the call of eagles and fly in "formation" across our great room, share a favorite snack and even feed each other some, take naps next to each other, and play with their toys together. It's so cute to watch, although we'd never let them share the same cage or be unsupervised when they are out.
Long introduction, guess that's about it.
Let's see if I can get this picture of the birds uploaded properly.
We have three birds, a 28 year old cockatiel named Coconut- he's the matriarch of the group, still talking, eating well, and interested in everything going on,even takes a few flying laps across our great room, although he is slowing down. We also have a five year old female lovebird named Loki, ( I'm told Loki is a Norse god- god of mischief so that name fits her well), who can and does bite the bejibbers out of somebody when she wants to, but generally is a mischievous, funny little clown and a sweet velcro cuddly bird much of the time. Then there is little Hinki, a beautiful lilac female who came to us via adoption about 1.5 yrs ago ( her previous mama had to go to a nursing home and couldn't care for her anymore), and joined right in with our flock as though she had been there forever. Hinki is about 2.5 yrs old. Our birds are free flying when we are home (they go in their cages to sleep and when we go out), and for the most part they follow us around like little flying puppies as they want to "help", or at least see what we are doing.
Hinki was already tame and used to a lot of human attention when we got her, so when she came to us she set right in to let us know how she expected things to be- she started right in eating everything we put in front of her, including fruits and vegetables, checking out what the humans were eating to see if she wanted some of that too. She's a little eating machine, but she's also very active, so she's not fat.
And Hinki started talking about a week after we got her. She imitates whatever it is she hears that she wants to- her first words were "Loki Loki Loki", followed by "baby bird", and it went on from there. Now she says "good morning", "thank you", "where baby going?", "come here, right here", "I love you", "big boy" ( that's what we call the cockatiel), "hello baby", "I don't care', combinations of these words and a bunch of things I'm not sure I understand. And she talks all the time, loves to sit on a shoulder, or on another of her favorite sites, and chatter away.
What's also rather unusual, or so I read, is our lovebird's (Loki) acceptance and friendship with Hinki. I have read that female lovebirds can be aggressive, fight and even injure a smaller younger bird who's introduced to them, but Loki and Hinki have become great playmates and friends. They follow each other around, play "eagle" together- that's when they imitate the call of eagles and fly in "formation" across our great room, share a favorite snack and even feed each other some, take naps next to each other, and play with their toys together. It's so cute to watch, although we'd never let them share the same cage or be unsupervised when they are out.
Long introduction, guess that's about it.
Let's see if I can get this picture of the birds uploaded properly.
what alot of cuteness you have there!
