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Posted in cockatiel on May 15th, 2013
Trevor is the most dedicated of the cockatiels to maintaining the nestbox. He’s been chewing away at the opening. Trevor likes to chew the nestbox as he pushes it. The nextbox eventually falls off the cage and he’s surprised. So you can see in the picture above that there’s a white string to [...]
Posted in cockatiel on May 8th, 2013
Stonewall continues to say no a lot. He’s expanded his no to me and now when he’s on my shoulder and I’m typing, he climbs down to the keyboard and starts screaming at my fingers. But then he gets a little confused and his screams convert into singing. Everything seems to be a [...]
Posted in cockatiel on May 1st, 2013
I’ve been taking online classes in computer science. This requires me to read a textbook, watch videos, and write code every evening and all weekend long. By the end of this, I’ll have a Computer Science degree and will hopefully feel more secure. It’s more fun than I expected; I really like writing programs. It’s [...]
Posted in cockatiel on Apr 14th, 2013
You know how teenagers reach that stage where they go from hanging out with other kids to realizing that they have some sexual feelings for those kids? (Traditionally we say boys becoming interested in girls, but let’s not be so heteronormative, hmm?) Well Stonewall has officially reached that stage. It all started with Trevor and [...]
Posted in cockatiel on Mar 27th, 2013
My darling Stonewall is a happy bird. He has not mastered the cockatiel complaining noise. In fact, I’m not sure Stonewall knows how to complain. He knows how to say no, as in “No, I will NOT get on your finger,” “No, Trevor, you cannot be on that perch!” and “No, Conner, that [...]
Conner loves Jon’s laptops, which I’ve apparently mentioned before. His favorite thing is to try to pry the keys off. He managed to pop one off last week. Look at his little red tongue! You can also see Stonewall studying his technique. Where Conner goes, Trevor goes, and then Stonewall follows until [...]
Posted in cockatiel on Mar 9th, 2013
Conner has always been the nicest, most loving of the cockatiels towards me. It kills me to take trips because I know he misses me. His favorite thing is when I change the newspapers in their cages because I crawl under the table to clean and Conner gets really curious about the process. He also [...]
Trevor likes his millet. He will actually yell at me if he’s eaten all the millet on the top of the cage. Sometimes I forget he does this and I’m like, what’s his problem? Oh right, millet. Now when I hear him chirp it sounds like he’s actually saying “Millet. Millet. Millet. Millet.” He stares [...]
Conner would like you to know that it’s not okay that Jon and I are always leaving. After we came back from China, Jon and I had separate trips to California. And Conner has had enough. He often won’t let me leave the room. If I try to go downstairs he flies [...]
While we left for China Stonewall turned into an adult. He’s getting more yellow in his head feathers and his posture is more of an alert adult cockatiel. I was worried because he started sounding exactly like Conner and Trevor. He made the same noise that signals he’s checking in with the [...]