Green cheek conure and a lovebird

Hi everyone!

I recently got a green cheek conure named Lucy. She is 3 months old, extremely sweet and affectionate. She loves to cuddle and ALWAYS asks for head scratch, but not really needy; when I take her out, she quietly plays on her own.

I also have a lovebird Summer, and she is extremly outgoing and nosy. Whatever I do, she wants a part of it. She also has attention span of 10 seconds, literally! She's constantly on to something.

Since Summer is free flighted and Lucy is not (she came wing clipped, I'm planning to let those wings grow though), Summer is the dominant one. She is never aggressive towards Lucy, just extremely ANNOYING!!

Summer constantly chews on Lucy's tail and wings, tries to preen her face but ends up biting her nose (not hard). Lucy is annoyed but mostly tolerates what Summer does. The problem is, Summer often tries to get on top of Lucy's back which terrorizes Lucy.

(by the way, is this a dominance issue? because Summer's too young for this behavior to be sexual)

Now my dillema is this: should i let them play together? When they are out together, I always supervisse their interaction. I never had to intervene because when Lucy's really annoyed she just lunges forward and Summer gets the idea. But whenever Summer flies for fun, Lucy seems a bit terrified and I'm afraid this is stressing her out.

Summer also takes away everything Lucy eats or plays with. Even if it's something she was never interested in!!

Now whenever Summer comes near Lucy just runs away and I feel really bad. am I stressing her out?


Any comments will be appreciated!

Do you have multiple feeding areas for the two of them when they are out together? That way Lucy can go to another area each time Summer becomes a food hog I sort have the same problem with Oscar and Sky. Oscar is a little older and more bold while Sky is more shy and younger. They sit together on a stand all day (with my careful watch). I have 3 feeding areas, lots of toys, and made LOTS of escape routes for Sky. Sky may start a spat but Oscar will not back down. Sky often ends up jumping to the ground (Oscar likes to randomly follow him and eventually corner him and push him off).

Though they are not the best of friends they have learned to live together and actually like eachothers company. If I walk away with one and not the other they call to eachother. If one is stubburn and does not want to step up, but the other one does, the stubburn one will then want to step up.

As long as they are not harming one another or fighting, they will hopefully work it out. I would say start with small amounts of time together and end the sessions before Lucy gets too scared and Summer gets too pushy for her. End the sessions on a good note so that neither of them have a bad experience. You can interact with them to keep Summer occupied while Lucy adjusts