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January 14, 2008 photos of
our latest addition....
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I came home from work on
Friday, January 11, 2008, and heard a little
peeping sound from the nesting box.
Sure enough, this hen was successful in
hatching a baby budgie, aka parakeet.
She'd been determined for several weeks, and
kept laying eggs which the cockatiel would
throw out. Apparently she managed to
ward off the cockatiel and protect this one
egg.
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This baby was obviously
hatched a week ago. On Friday when I'd
discovered it, the poor little thing was
completely bald, eyes closed and unable to
raise its head. Just three days later
and we've grown, have down feathers, open
eyes and can raise our head to look at mama
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January 19, 2008
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January
26, 2008
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February
1, 2008
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How I got started with
Budgies... One day while
waiting for a family to arrive with a
dog for our rescue, I'd seen
something fluttering in the road, and assumed it was just a leaf.
A few moments later Ed began to yell, "NO! NO!" and hurried into the
intersection and rescued Cordelia, a green English Budgie.
Of course, budgies can't live a solitary existence, so my very good
friend Liz gave me Stanwood, a little blue American budgie.
The birds came to me right after my genealogical trip to Maine, and so I
selected names of ancestors & their descendants. Cordelia Stanwood
was a cousin to one of my ancestors, and was a famous ornithologist who
had a bird sanctuary in Ellsworth, Maine in the 1800's.
Click here
for our Budgie page! |
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