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.
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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So calculating! She turns on your finger to see exactly where she wants to go,then takes flight,tucks her arms in as she reaches the door,turns,then opens them back up and glides to you finger. BB would have been flapping like a goof ball, yelling his head off,not knowing what hes gonna do to the last second.
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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I had to watch Bumble's video SEVERAL more times
Again, I just love the slow-mo!
Jim
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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I had to watch Bumble's video SEVERAL more times
Again, I just love the slow-mo!
Jim
I suspect she’s so good at it because she’s always been able to do it. She had a very light clip when she came home-it barely slowed her down-so she’s been practicing all her life. She DOES occasionally get startled but even then, she’s accustomed to flying around the place so she knows what she’s about.
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Dang, what must it be like to have such an adorable little angel who loves everybody and everybody loves? Doggone it, I love her, too, so I can't even be cranky about it!
Your sister and co-workers sound like gems, too!
Inger, you much be doing things right!
