LindaD
Strolling the yard
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- 5/12/13
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- Linda Dockstader
My sweet Tirzah is very shy and doesn't like to be observed, especially early in the morning when she is eating her breakfast. I have pain and fatigue issues, and some days I wake up with a bad headache. (My bed and my birds cages are in the same room). So one morning last week I woke up with a headache. I got up to get the ice pack and and laid back down, covering my eyes with a dark face cloth. After a few minutes Tirzah went about her usual morning routine of playing in her cage and eating. But this morning she was particularly talkative with bird-talk. I was astonished to hear her say chirpchirpchirp 'Hello' chirp! She repeated it several times! I was just smiling away, but I wanted to see her and see what she was doing. So I slowly lifted the eye cover just a small bit. She kept on playing and eating, chirping away, with several 'hello' s thrown in. Then she melted my heart with 'I love you'. I was pleased that she speech and enunciation is SO clear. If she is talking like this at such a young age I hope she will be a good talker as she grows up. Then I did something that upset her. I just couldn't help it, I said Hello to her after she said hello. She jumped and looked shocked and scared. She hasn't spoken since, but it has only been a couple of days so I hope I haven't silenced her forever. 
My hopes are that she will be a good talker. But I am SO completely in love with this bird, I don't care if she never says another word!! Her personality is so stately, regal, and sedate. She is quiet and almost thoughtful in nature. She really acts as if she doesn't want to be watched or "seen' by me, but she's only been here a few weeks and the first couple weeks I was in the grips of a bad Fibromyalgia flare and wasn't too active myself. That's over now, and I am having such fun with her and my year-old English Budgie. 
