I've owned my two budgies for 9 days (first time owner) and i've been slowly trying to gain their trust, I clean their cage daily, change food, put my hand in the cage, clean bowls etc etc so they have grown to not totally despise my hands. Today while I wanted to clean some poop off of one of their perches disaster struck, one of my non-tamed budgies flew out of cage, saying I panicked was an understatement.
Poor thing flew around my room and as carefully as possible i tried offering him one of the perches I had lying around however I had no luck and he just flew away more scared than before.
Now to the important bit of the story, I didn't want to grab this poor lil guy as I didn't want to put him under even more stress, so after calming down, I decided to slowly approach him and offer him my finger as a perch, at this point he had flown onto my (turned off) fan which he had NO grip on, he indeed sat on my finger and he then let me escort him back to his cage with my other budgie.
This whole was stressful for me so I can't even imagine how stressfull it must have been for both of them however I can't stop thinking about he didn't want to climb on the perch (that was previously in the cage) but he was willing to climb on my finger.
Was this pure desperation from my budgie or him deciding to trust me, even if it was for just a brief a moment?
PS: after this whole hordeal his behaviour hasn't changed, he went right back to eating and preening himself like usual.
Poor thing flew around my room and as carefully as possible i tried offering him one of the perches I had lying around however I had no luck and he just flew away more scared than before.
Now to the important bit of the story, I didn't want to grab this poor lil guy as I didn't want to put him under even more stress, so after calming down, I decided to slowly approach him and offer him my finger as a perch, at this point he had flown onto my (turned off) fan which he had NO grip on, he indeed sat on my finger and he then let me escort him back to his cage with my other budgie.
This whole was stressful for me so I can't even imagine how stressfull it must have been for both of them however I can't stop thinking about he didn't want to climb on the perch (that was previously in the cage) but he was willing to climb on my finger.
Was this pure desperation from my budgie or him deciding to trust me, even if it was for just a brief a moment?
PS: after this whole hordeal his behaviour hasn't changed, he went right back to eating and preening himself like usual.
