Mutiny before bed

[Marianne Marlow]

See if you can get us all in our cages... we're not going to make it easy for you!

Nice photo of them all together though

[jellybean]

Well......Did you succeed, Marianne 😂

I don't envy you this task at bedtime.
Great photo of the gang.

[criswell]

That's a super photo. Hope they weren't too troublesome.

[Marianne Marlow]

They went in eventually. I find that once I get Barney and Ayla in that Dinku and Iris will go in pretty easily.

Naughty ones are - Max as he doesn't want to stop playing.

Daisy - wont go in unless Billy has already gone in.

Chipper - will not go in until everyone else is in. Tends to take 3-4 attempts too, if I try and put him in first then he'll fly out again while I am trying to get Billy and Daisy in and that causes all sorts of issues will all three of them refusing to go in and me getting annoyed.

Barney and Ayla are very good actually. He will go in if I usher him towards his cage, or sometimes I just ask and he goes in. She will hop on my hand and let me lift her in, wont get on my hand at any other time of day though!!

[sweetpea]

Nov 30, 2023 11:29:20 GMT Marianne Marlow said:

She will hop on my hand and let me lift her in, wont get on my hand at any other time of day though!!

They can have some really weird rules.

Finkleberry can only use his LHS door for exit purposes. The RHS door can be used for both coming & going. Sometimes, at bedtime, Frediano eats from the pot next to the RHS door & Finkleberry panics because he can't get in (not enough space to push past!) so even though the LHS door is shouting, "you can get in through me", he runs around on top of the cage & goes in & out of Moriarty's until Fat Fredi finishes eating & moves out of the way.

[Azalea]

Daisy and Billy almost sound like our Basil and Topaz. Basil follows Topaz around, when he isn't following Kona (Cockatiel). After Topaz goes in the cage, Basil will follow.

Willow and Thunder don't usually like the front doors of the cage. They perch on top, then climb down to use a side door.

[Loz]

That's a lovely pic, Marianne.

[Marianne Marlow]

They do have their funny ways don't they. Your boys have "door rulez" then sweetpea and Azalea, that's so funny.

Thanks loz. I don't often get all 10 in one photo.

[jellybean]

Budgie bedtime with a large flock must be so funny, well, funny to me reading your stories, not so funny for you having to juggle all these tiny bodies into the correct cages 😂

[Loz]

Two budgies in one cage tonight, fourteen in the other. Happy little idiots

[Marianne Marlow]

and Chocobo?

Nov 30, 2023 22:09:25 GMT loz said:

Two budgies in one cage tonight, fourteen in the other. Happy little idiots

[Loz]

Chocobo is back to sleeping on the bookcase, alas. Her bedtime is a lot earlier than that of the budgies and she doesn't like all the squabbling that goes on.

[criswell]

There are two doors on the front of the piano 6 cage and the left hand door isn't popular for coming or going but is occasionally used for going out. The right hand door is the main one used. There is a door on the side of the cage that has gained popularity since the new recruits arrived. It is very cute that budgies have their rules.

[Hezz]

The saga continues in my house at the moment, as well. Not so much bedtime but getting the feral green monster into the small cage to be brought out of the aviary .. agh. Spyro is a dream: on the spare perch, through the door and transferred onto a cage perch. Easy! Piper must go wherever Spyro is (unless there is food that has suddenly made an appearance) so he follows next with (usually) no problems. [don’t want to jinx myself] Bunji, oh Bunji. He can be good, but by the Gods, he can be very reluctant as well.

Bedtime is easy enough as long as they have their brains still engaged because, you know, sometimes the doorway isn’t where it has been for the past 15 years, it should be around here, at the back and how come he gets to eat, and why can’t I get to the food through the bars?? And don’t you dare try to show me where the doorway is because I know you’re wrong.

[Budgiefeets]

Wow ! That is many budgies to have