Hummingbirds
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- Jun 25, 2014
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So he was named when he arrived, and he has added much of that element to our house!* From the very beginning he's been a big fan of one person; It's fun to hear their animated conversations.
"Hellooooo! how ya doing?"
"CHIP!! CHEeer!"
"Ohhh, you don't say?"
"Ap! Bur-bur-AP!"
and etc.
(We've learned a new word from him, all his own: Apple-snaph )
He won't go out of his way to chat with anyone else that long. Sunny, like a lot of Conures (??) can't talk but in his own birdie language, however, just listening to the tones, it's easy to guess what he means.
Somehow he's learned to mimic a human laugh--usually when someone else is laughing or he thinks someone will, but I was surprised to hear him chuckle, once, after being squirted with water. No one had ever done that to him before
He is a cheer-you-on little thing: for example when we start some indoor laps or get on the exercise equipment. Even for those he doesn't particularly like!
He's really attuned to the door being opened or shut. And company coming--greeting them from afar HI! So glad you could come!
Really on the look-out (or sound-out) for when favorite person comes home.
He needs to be trained, though. He can be trusted outside of the cage with favorite and second favorite person only. How can he be calm when people touch his cage? And, funnily, he has pre-made plans on how to act when people he cares less for come to visit him: go straight to the bell and ring it. Or attack his bed. It hardly leaves a moment for someone trying to train him in not-being-touchy-about-touching-the cage. ..
* nobody really calls him that--usually it's Birdie
"Hellooooo! how ya doing?"
"CHIP!! CHEeer!"
"Ohhh, you don't say?"
"Ap! Bur-bur-AP!"
and etc.
(We've learned a new word from him, all his own: Apple-snaph )
He won't go out of his way to chat with anyone else that long. Sunny, like a lot of Conures (??) can't talk but in his own birdie language, however, just listening to the tones, it's easy to guess what he means.
Somehow he's learned to mimic a human laugh--usually when someone else is laughing or he thinks someone will, but I was surprised to hear him chuckle, once, after being squirted with water. No one had ever done that to him before
He is a cheer-you-on little thing: for example when we start some indoor laps or get on the exercise equipment. Even for those he doesn't particularly like!
He's really attuned to the door being opened or shut. And company coming--greeting them from afar HI! So glad you could come!
Really on the look-out (or sound-out) for when favorite person comes home.
He needs to be trained, though. He can be trusted outside of the cage with favorite and second favorite person only. How can he be calm when people touch his cage? And, funnily, he has pre-made plans on how to act when people he cares less for come to visit him: go straight to the bell and ring it. Or attack his bed. It hardly leaves a moment for someone trying to train him in not-being-touchy-about-touching-the cage. ..
* nobody really calls him that--usually it's Birdie
