Bumble-ing Along

[Tami2]

So Bumble and her instagram friends are trying out for the Olympics. Here’s Bumble’s parallel bar routine. Make sure you have sound on, because the music turns her movements from “eh do I want to do this trick?” to interpretive dance. [emoji23][emoji23]

https://youtu.be/E-60UqMxr80


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Oh my goodness, she is adorable & awesome!! :heart:
With great moves too! :smile049:

 

[Inger]

With a little help from the boyfriend, I built Bumble a play gym. If you look in the full pic, you can see her regular playgym down at the bottom. I wanted something a little bigger. [emoji23][emoji23]


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[AmyMyBlueFront]

Naaaahhh...Bumbles not spoiled..





Jim

 

[Inger]

Naaaahhh...Bumbles not spoiled..











Jim

LOL! Well it was very inexpensive to make this monster! I spent less than $30. I saw someone on Facebook today who had just purchased a little acrylic play gym and spent $80! So this feels like the opposite of spoiled??? Haha. I’m justifying. She’s worth it.


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[Inger]

Bumble did not want to go to bed tonight. Her very effective technique was three pronged:

1) look how cute I am, you don’t want to put me to bed! Skritch me! Gimme a kiss! Peekaboo! Tickle!
2) I CAN FLYYYYYYY!
3) I flew over here and now look how cute I am being I have never played with this toy before and now it’s the best thing everrrrrrr.

Man I love that little girl. What a stinker. I eventually got her in her cage for the night, but she did her darnedest. Can’t wait to see what shenanigans she gets up to tomorrow!


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[FlyBirdiesFly]

That play gym is amazing! Looks more fit for an amazon than a tiny little parrotlet...
Good work!

 

[Inger]

That play gym is amazing! Looks more fit for an amazon than a tiny little parrotlet...
Good work!

LOL yeah I just made up the measurements and I didn’t want it to be too small. It worked. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


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[LeaKP]

Bumble is The Boss #teambumble


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[GaleriaGila]

This is absolutely one of the happiest threads of 'em all!

You two are a perfect pair of cuties. I get a big grin every time I tune in.

 

[wrench13]

I could have guessed where Bumble would go.... to the highest spot.

 

[Inger]

I could have guessed where Bumble would go.... to the highest spot.

Well...that’s where the millet was [emoji23][emoji23]


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[Inger]

This is absolutely one of the happiest threads of 'em all!

You two are a perfect pair of cuties. I get a big grin every time I tune in.

Awwww thanks! You’re the best.


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[Inger]

Bumble is The Boss #teambumble


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She is indeed. I think she’s been taking lessons from HRH.


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[Inger]

Moltinggggggg. Again. Forever. And sooooo much. I’ve been reminded of the times Mr. Boats has described coming home to a feather snowstorm! The blizzard has slowed finally and she’s got lots of pins she’s been working on. She’ll sit on me and preen herself and it will be like a whole different snowstorm!

She asks for (demands) skritches regularly. She will bump my thumb with her head, and if I don’t respond quickly enough, she’ll give me a little chirp and sometimes a gentle beak to get me moving.

She went through a HORRIBLE bitey phase, but I did my best not to react (maybe 50% success LOL) and recently she’s pretty much stopped, thank heaven. I get beak messages but they’re mostly very gentle, and she likes to preen my fingers and say “tickle”.

She’s fetching really well and flying to/from the bead instead of just waddling. We’re working on distance. Time to come up with a new trick to work on. It’s pretty much ALWAYS time for a new trick with this one!

Words: peekaboo (while head-butting me), tickle (while preening) beeeeeeeeep when I walk into the kitchen or when she hears my sister’s voice on the phone. She makes kissy noises but back in the day, when I sometimes heard her practice, she made them better so I’m still hopeful she’ll bust out the good kisses anytime now. Peek when we’re playing peekaboo (weirdo) and she’s made a new game up: when she sits on my shoulder, sometimes I’ll turn my head away and back and say peekaboo. One day, out of nowhere, she started turning her head every time she says peek. Sooooo cute. She also has a new word that she says while she sits on my shoulder during nightly bowl-cleaning. I have NO IDEA what it is. 2 syllables, *might* be thank you but I can’t get that to make sense to me. I wish I could figure it out so I could encourage her. Little girl parrotlets are not the clearest speakers. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Tonight we were sitting in my room and she was doing laps from my finger to the bathroom door and back. I made this slo-mo video of her. It’s interesting to watch because I didn’t realize that she starts low, goes up and then turns at the door, but it’s very consistent. Video is poorly edited, has stock iMovie music, and features my laundry pile haha but I hope you enjoy anyway. And the picture is the tiniest feather, which she gave to me tonight. [emoji5]

https://youtu.be/K-5s77T00tU

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[AmyMyBlueFront]

I just love the slo=mo! Bumble flys so well! You're doing an awesome job with her Inger Such a pretty little girl!

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiii Bumbleeeeee!!!!!! #teambumble




Jim

 

[GaleriaGila]

I love it.

And you know what, Inger? I love how you love that little bird, and how Bumble loves you. You two are such a precious pair!

 

[Jen5200]

So adorable - I just love how she flap, flap, flaps.... and then tucks her wings in to glide part of the way back. She looks like a little bumble-bullet in slo-mo when she tucks in on the home stretch .

 

[Terry57]

I love that video! Watching Bumble make that turn in slo-mo is so cool!

 

[FlyBirdiesFly]

The slo-mo video is so awesome, I love how she tucks in her wings so she looks like a torpedo. I have quite a few slo-mo flight videos myself. ALL my birds are molting now too... so many feathers EVERYWHERE. Poor Pearl looks more like a white porcupine than a budgie.
#teambumble

 

[wrench13]

WOW ! She's like a flying torpedo. Well done, both of you!
See if you can teach Bumble "the Bomb" thing , descending whistle and then a explosion.
One of the first things Salty learned. His trigger is when I point my finger up, and then slowly lower it while he does the whistle. Then BOOM.