Budgie found in Woodley, Reading

[BudgiesBuddy]

Moogie is right that she is not a baby. From this picture she looks like 8 months or older.
She is a very beautiful female, a Dominant Pied.
I am afraid, she is a keeper ;D

[Dan UK]

Ahh ok thats fair enough! How can you tell she is a female though ? He/She has both pink and blue bits on the face.. Is that how you can tell ?

Guess we may need to reconsider the name then as other half named him Bert! haha doh!

[ruby 5]

Glad you've decided to keep her. It was meant to be She's a lovely bird. We got back into keeping budgies the same way, ours just turned up in the middle of an industrial estate, no one claimed him so we kept him. That was 18 months ago and we now have 15 ;D so beware!!

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Nov 14, 2012 10:20:30 GMT Dan UK said:

Thanks for all the advice. Very nice, friendly and helpful on here!

Will definately take things slowly Skysmum.. Will give him a few days before we let him have a look around the house! Very pleased to read your reply as he was blinking at us lots last night

Other half been playing music while she cleans this morning and apparently he is chirping away like anything!

Definately sounds addictive from your post! I can sort of see why already. Never had much of an interest in birds but love the little guy already. Really hoping his owner does not come forward now!

Will get some proper pics when he does come out to play but have this photo of when I first found him shivering in the garage.. I think it must have been fate

she is so beautiful dan..
thank youfor posting the pic.... .

you can tell its a hen ..
if theres white rings around the nostrils ..... .

i would put her about 4 maybe 6 months because of the darkness on her beak

[barrieshutt]

adult dominat pied , appears to be mauve but may be grey , sex is not easy but looks like a cock

[BudgiesBuddy]

Nov 14, 2012 12:13:00 GMT Dan UK said:

Ahh ok thats fair enough! How can you tell she is a female though ? He/She has both pink and blue bits on the face.. Is that how you can tell ?

Guess we may need to reconsider the name then as other half named him Bert! haha doh!

One can tell from the cere color about the sex. Can you post a clear picture of cere taken in natural light?

[Dan UK]

Nov 14, 2012 14:59:14 GMT BudgiesBuddy said:

Nov 14, 2012 12:13:00 GMT Dan UK said:

Ahh ok thats fair enough! How can you tell she is a female though ? He/She has both pink and blue bits on the face.. Is that how you can tell ?

Guess we may need to reconsider the name then as other half named him Bert! haha doh!

One can tell from the cere color about the sex. Can you post a clear picture of cere taken in natural light?

Yes I can do that but not for a day or so.. I presume best to leave him/her in the cage for a few days to get used to surroundings before letting him out to have a look about ?

Thanks for all the replies guys very helpful. Oh and around the nose is pink, blue AND white lol

Hopefully will report back with a better pic ASAP.. Glad you all like him though ;D

[skysmum]

Ooooooh he/she is a cracker i am going towards Female but we wont know until we have a better picture. As you say Dan let her settle for a few days she has had a rough time of it finding herself homeless, cold and hungry , then she found you and then went to spend the night at the vets surrounded by four legged creatures , then she was picked up again and taken home to hopefully her forever home . She's had quite a time bless her. We will all be waiting for a progress report when you and she are ready . They are lovely little creatures, ive had them all my life and cant imagine life without them.

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well there we go dan ...looks like im wrong ...
if barrie says you budgie is adult then it is ..

but the one thing we are all agreed on is how beautiful it is ..... ;D.

[Hezz]

Pretty bird regardless, Dan. Your life has just gotten brighter.