Pictures of our former, beloved Burbs

[Vampiric_Conure]

I've slowly started adding pictures from my photo albums to my digital library and found some pix of birds I had loved, like my first cockatiels and my first birds, ever! I was wondering if they had pictures of their first birds or special birds they wanted to mention here?

Below are Proto and Shrayle, my first two birds EVER.

Mindwipe (back) and Silverbolt (front)

 

[GivemeSeedsorgivemeFlesh]

I like the dinosaurs book on the shelf. A little ancestral reading for the birdies?

 

[Vampiric_Conure]

I like the dinosaurs book on the shelf. A little ancestral reading for the birdies?

LOL! I have sooo many dino books! Between the books on bird care and dinosaurs and art... I have enough for monster-making classes .

 

[DonnaBudgie]

I like this thread.

The big female English budgie is Lilibet and the regular blue male is Buddy, the first budgie I got here in Maine 8 years ago. Rocky is their daughter. Lilibet died from a stroke two years ago and Buddy died when almost three years ago when Rocky was a baby.
The green budgie is Hunter who died a couple years ago. The blue boy to his right is Beau, Rocky's boyfriend.

I wish I had more pictures of my dearly departed budgies. That was a few phones ago.

 

[GivemeSeedsorgivemeFlesh]

Ollie just a few days after he came to live with me trying to rescue his millet seeds from the mess I made by mixing them with chop

 

[texsize]

I have been working on putting together some old photos of Bingo but not ready to upload yet.
I have been holding back because I want to put a little memorial together but can't find the right location.
however.
I have an old picture of Plumas and Bingo from 4o years ago I can share as I wasn't going to include it in the thread.
This was before digital camers and before I knew what a proper cage was for a large parrot.

In this picture Bingo is so young he has no yellow on his neck yet.

 

[DonnaBudgie]

We miss Bingo.
Tell us about Plumas. What kind of bird was he?

 

[texsize]

We miss Bingo.
Tell us about Plumas. What kind of bird was he?

Plumas was a wild caught OWA.
He was our first bird.
He never learned to talk and was never very friendly but he did learn to trust us eventually.
We tried to make his life as stress free as possible considering his circumstances.
He found a friend/partner in Pacho and had many happy years.
Plumas died late in 2016, shortly after we adopted Bella.

I think he must have had several small strokes TIA’s or seizures as he started falling off his perch.
The vet thought it was arthritis and gave him pain meds that didn’t help.

He ended up passing away at the vet (not avian vet, he was unavailable at the time).

I have a pic of them together I will post later.

 

[texsize]

I know I said Plumas never talked and that's true but Pacho taught Plumas to whistle "pretty bird" I was trying to find old photos of them and found an old video recording of "pretty bird"

And this is for wrench13 and Salty.
this is a picture of the time I had a plucking problem with Patcho. My vet called it a "brood patch" and caused by hormones.

and this is a Picture of Sunny, the mother of 7 babies over 2 clutches. she died young and suddenly. She is the only bird death I needed to find answers for. Necropsy was impractical so my avian vet .... took a look and it looked like a liver failure .

It's funny her coloration looks male with the bright yellow head but she definitely laid eggs soooo.