This is the newest member of our little flock. He arrived on St. Valentine's Day so naturally we called him Valentino, and he is about 6 months old. His introduction to our world must have come as a bit of a shock to him because not only has he had to endure the hyperactive maelstrom that is HRH Lilly Pilly, but the day after he came home he got shunted off to the vet's for a wellness check, blood work, faecal samples etc etc and so forth. Poor little guy wouldn't have known what hit him!
Valentino is not particularly tame but he is very sweet natured and still a bit quiet and finding his way around his new home. His doctor suggested he was a little overweight and he's not the best flyer yet (I imagine Lilly will work a few grams off him PDQ!) However he isn't doing too badly working out the layout of his new digs. Happily he has tested negative for psittacosis and all those other nasties my CAV routinely checks so he is free to do his budgie thing. He almost landed on me yesterday but of course HRH took one look at that and said "oh no you don't!" and zoomed in to mess up his landing.
We haven't had a budgie in the flock for a good decade or thereabouts so it's wonderful to have Val the little chirpmeister indahouse
And here's a picture ...
Valentino is not particularly tame but he is very sweet natured and still a bit quiet and finding his way around his new home. His doctor suggested he was a little overweight and he's not the best flyer yet (I imagine Lilly will work a few grams off him PDQ!) However he isn't doing too badly working out the layout of his new digs. Happily he has tested negative for psittacosis and all those other nasties my CAV routinely checks so he is free to do his budgie thing. He almost landed on me yesterday but of course HRH took one look at that and said "oh no you don't!" and zoomed in to mess up his landing.
We haven't had a budgie in the flock for a good decade or thereabouts so it's wonderful to have Val the little chirpmeister indahouse
And here's a picture ...
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