Bumble-ing Along

[Jen5200]

Oh my - she is so cute! Needed that today

 

[Sandy19]

She's super cute, just want to kiss her little cheeks.

 

[Inger]

We had a little harness adventure today. The weather has turned nice for a few days (Seattle has really been living up to its rainy reputation this year) so I decided we should take a quick walk to Starbucks for an iced tea. She still chewed on her harness a lot but there was a minute here and there when she stopped and looked around. There was a brief breeze and she seemed to enjoy/be interested by the feeling of it ruffling her feathers. And *I* could see how easily even hat small breeze could take her 1 ounce body away so easily! Not that I had ever considered not harnessing her, but that made just made it even clearer that harnessed and attached to me is the only way for us. Here's a picture of our adventure.

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[LeaKP]

Oh I love the cheeky beak!!!


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[Inger]

Oh I love the cheeky beak!!!


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

She's cheeky all right! Haha the part of the story I left out is that when we got home and I unharnessed her, she flew over and perched on a picture on the wall with her back to me and cussed at me for several minutes! It's probably the most vocal I've ever heard her and the body language was VERY clear. After she was done cussing, she did let me pick her up and then we had some lovely time together, so I think I'm forgiven.

 

[OutlawedSpirit]

Oh I love the cheeky beak!!!


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

She's cheeky all right! Haha the part of the story I left out is that when we got home and I unharnessed her, she flew over and perched on a picture on the wall with her back to me and cussed at me for several minutes! It's probably the most vocal I've ever heard her and the body language was VERY clear. After she was done cussing, she did let me pick her up and then we had some lovely time together, so I think I'm forgiven.

I just love that about parrotlets! They are not afraid to let anyone know what they think, they don't really care who you are.

Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

 

[Inger]

Oh I love the cheeky beak!!!


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

She's cheeky all right! Haha the part of the story I left out is that when we got home and I unharnessed her, she flew over and perched on a picture on the wall with her back to me and cussed at me for several minutes! It's probably the most vocal I've ever heard her and the body language was VERY clear. After she was done cussing, she did let me pick her up and then we had some lovely time together, so I think I'm forgiven.

I just love that about parrotlets! They are not afraid to let anyone know what they think, they don't really care who you are.

Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

Yes! She's getting to be so mouthy haha! But even her loudest noise is a sweet chirp so it just endears her to me more.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[OutlawedSpirit]

She's cheeky all right! Haha the part of the story I left out is that when we got home and I unharnessed her, she flew over and perched on a picture on the wall with her back to me and cussed at me for several minutes! It's probably the most vocal I've ever heard her and the body language was VERY clear. After she was done cussing, she did let me pick her up and then we had some lovely time together, so I think I'm forgiven.

I just love that about parrotlets! They are not afraid to let anyone know what they think, they don't really care who you are.

Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

Yes! She's getting to be so mouthy haha! But even her loudest noise is a sweet chirp so it just endears her to me more.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yea, it's sort of hard to take them seriously. Like being yelled at by a chipmunk. They're even more adorable when they get really mad and fluff up to yell, my breeders do that on occasion when I feed them and they have babies in the nest. Then I just want to cuddle the fluffy little chirpers, even though I know they want to peck my eyes out.

Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

 

[Inger]

Bathtime

Bumble has taken a few baths, and most of them not exactly against her will, but she might not have loved them. Part of our evening ritual is that she takes a drink from the faucet, I make a pool out of my hands, and sometimes she sticks her head in and sometimes I drizzle some water on her (and then I usually get the angry quack).

Last night, she clearly told me she wanted "drink time" - she flew halfway to the kitchen and then back, and then she flew to her cage top and I could see her eyeing the kitchen looking for a place to land - she's never done that before. So I asked her if she wanted her drink and took her in, and she took several good drinks and then splashed into the hand-pool and stood under the running water. When she hopped back up, I drizzled a little on her and rather than flying to my head (which is how she lets me know we're done), she turned around so I could get a better angle! She fluffed her feathers and spread her wings and did all the cute birdy bath things. So I wondered if she wanted even more. I filled a little tupperware with water (which she mostly ignored) and got out her bath spray bottle and sprayed over the top of her head and she LOVED it. I think she'd have let me go on spraying her for hours. So cute - and the crazy/amazing part was her so clearly telling me what she wanted to do. I don't think I'll ever get used to how smart she is.

 

[AmyMyBlueFront]

Sounds to me,that little Bum is really getting to love her home,and her Mommy!
Of course we'd all love to see photo's...but I'm sure all of us know we don't/can't carry a camera with us 24/7!

Awesome report Inger! Keep doing what you are doing...obviously little Bumble agrees





Jim

 

[Inger]

Thanks, Jim. I take as many photos as I can, but Bumble has an opinion of my phone hahaha! I have a lot of shots of blurry butt feathers!


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[Inger]

Well Bumble let me know that I got everything wrong this morning! I don't know what was wrong with me, but I learned quickly.

So first, it's been hot in Seattle so I opened the windows this morning to let in the cooler air. I don't normally open the windows.

Then the dogs were lazing around in bed so I closed the door and decided to bring Bumble out for some play time. I don't normally do that in the morning.

Then I opened her cage door but instead of having her step up and doing our little kiss-kiss routine, I just walked away and let her come out on her own.

Then I got bit. A lot. And hard. "too much, Mom" was her clear message.

Oh and I don't think she likes this ugly yellow shirt.

So I had her practice flying back and forth between my arm and her perch (to distract her from flying up to my head which she does when I've broken her birdie rules) and then I put her back in her cage with her breakfast.

All was forgiven by our regular evening playtime, but I sure learned my lesson!


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[wrench13]

Parrots love their routine oh yes.

BTW, I read somewhere that green and blue parrotlets are the smartest, no kidding.

 

[Inger]

Well she's smart, that's for sure!


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[Inger]

Parrots love their routine oh yes.

BTW, I read somewhere that green and blue parrotlets are the smartest, no kidding.

Oh and as I was being mauled by my tiny bird, I kept remembering you saying "same time every day" haha!


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[LeaKP]

What? Routine change? Abomination...


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[Inger]

What? Routine change? Abomination...


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I don't even know what's wrong with me!


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[LordTriggs]

"how DARE you change the routine! And don't get me started on that shirt! despicable..." Translation from Bumble

 

[Inger]

"how DARE you change the routine! And don't get me started on that shirt! despicable..." Translation from Bumble

Well she's right about the shirt! Haha!


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[Inger]

Bumble appeared to start molting a month ago. It's still going. She dropped one "big" feather in early June and one different one this week. I thought the molted symmetrically?? She has dropped approximately ten thousand tiny colorful feathers and also a bunch of downy feathers. Some days she is super grumpy. She seems to have fresh pin feathers on her head every couple of days. And she looks a little rough but not as in bald spots or anything like that - just kind of scruffy. When I asked the vet how long a molt should last, she said usually a few days to a week but they see parrots who go through it for months now and then, so like everything else "depends on the bird."

Otherwise she is still so fantastic and wonderful and I'm madly in love with her. I tried teaching her a new trick but she refused to learn it so I moved on to reinforcing something silly she already does - she hangs upside down from my finger by one foot. I call this trick "batman."

She eats everything I put in front of her and flings 85% of it at high velocity.

She has said Peekaboo for me maybe twice. She says it lots when she thinks nobody is listening and the other day she was watching a video of a cockatiel and she said it to him several times and gave him lots of kisses LOL.

Edit: I wasn't done LOL

She loves to watch videos of Koolaid the Parrotlet but she's less interested in other Parrotlet videos.

She has spent the morning amusing herself with a sweet pepper. Dogs are here so she has to be mostly in her cage, so I stuck a pepper partway through the top. She managed to knock it off so it was on top of the cage and she has been pushing it around and munching it through the bars all morning.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk