GCC Digging in food bowl?

[PassionFluff]

Hello all! I've been a long time lurker/bird owner and a fairly recent conure owner. I got my GCC Kirby a year ago and shes about 1 and a half years old. She's been displaying some... odd.. behavior of digging through her food in the past 7 or so months I'd like to say?

I'm assuming it's normal (for her at least) because she's still acting the same. I have stainless steel food bowls for her and whenever I give her pellets she sits in the bowl and digs her little beak through the bowl throwing out a lot of pellets before deciding to eat the bottom ones. She doesn't dig when I give her seed, only with pellets. My guess is that she's looking for seed at the bottom?

Does anyone else's conure do this? Or is Kirby just a strange little thing?

Thank you!

 

[LordTriggs]

sounds very normal and your assumption of looking for seeds/more preferable food at the bottom sounds about right

 

[clark_conure]

Looking for better seeds or just playing with a food that is also a toy....think about it, it's a miniature ball pen of treats, and it makes NOISE! Yeah, whatever you're worried about it's fine.

 

[GaleriaGila]

The Rickeybird drives me nuts with his bowl-antics.
Ideas I've tried, with greater and lesser success.
Try smaller pellets... harder to play with.
Moisten the pellets a bit.
Put in only pellets or only other stuff.
I got a locked-in bowl because he was dumping the whole bowl!