Wet birds

More than half of the birds decided to take baths on Saturday, under their own free will and in their water bowls. The result was birds with varying degrees of being wet. (Note: the pictures were taken with my cell phone, so quality isn't the greatest.)

1-Léa

Léa's baths are a messy affair; while she ever only manages to get her head wet (and even this isn't truly drenched), it is an entirely different story for her cage and the floor around her cage...those two things get soaked.


2-Joey

He's always been pretty good at getting wet. If I mist him, his whole body gets wet easily. But when it is as a result of him taking a bath, he pretty much only gets his belly.


3-Shade

I have a feeling she may have gotten the ball rolling for taking a bath that day. Her face and belly were pretty wet, and it looked like the top of her head had been more wet at one point, but was drying off.


4-Pixel

She was the one who remained the most wet. The feathers on her belly were properly drenched and so was the top of her head (which doesn't really show in this picture).

Saturday pictures

All taken with my cell, sorry for the so-so quality, especially for the pictures of Joey and Petey, which were taken once the sun went down and we had to resort to artificial lighting.

Messy beaks

I guess these two really enjoyed dinner.

Petey - who rarely ever gets messy!

And Léa who gets messy fairly frequently.

What do you do when you have a day off and it is nice out?

You take the birds outside!

To be fair, we had all week off, but this has been the first day where I deemed it warm enough to bring the birds out. And luckily, it didn't get too hot either (there is very little wiggle room here I find, we go from cold to very hot very easily), even in the direct sun.

Most birds have now become accustomed to this, and only Zuri still appears nervous and somewhat uncomfortable. Originally, the plan was to be outside for an hour and a half, but I had to admit defeat early (although I believe a few birds were happy about this decision), as the wind was picking up and pollen was flying around like crazy and I couldn't handle being out anymore (and I will not leave the birds outside without very close supervision, given I don't trust a certain neighbour and her two cats). We were outside for about an hour.

Here are a few pictures, that I tried to have look differently from past pictures taken outdoors, but there is only so much you can do with birds confined to cages.

Early May outing

It was lovely out today, so the birds got to enjoy a little sun. Although, by the time we got out (around 3:30 in the afternoon, to avoid the harsh sun) it got intermittently cloudy. But this made for more even light when it came time to take pictures!

Don't mistake Zuri's possible cheerful expression about him being happy. In fact, he wasn't happy, he was protesting. I believe he thinks going outside is one of the possible worst things that could happen, but that is just too bad for him, everyone got and will continue to get a nice dose of vitamin D when the weather will allow for it. He was the most nervous one; Petey and Pixel, who were also rather nervous the first time out this year, seemed more comfortable, Pixel even took to copy her brother and play with a toy while outside.

First outing of 2015!

Although my backyard looked like this just last Wednesday -

- today was a wonderfully warm and very Spring like day (finally!) and it was most definitively warm enough to bring the birds outside (about 19 degrees Celcius!)

Not everyone was thrilled, in fact, I'm quite sure Zuri felt like he was tricked to come outside and Petey and Pixel were also a little skittish, especially in the beginning, but I'm very happy everyone got to enjoy some sun without it being overly hot (like it will be this summer).

 

We were out there for about an hour, just so that they can start getting acclimatized to going outside again. I'll also add that I've very happy I got all these Kings aluminum travel cages (especially the 6 medium sized ones), as it is apparently impossible to find any of those in stock anywhere anymore.

Hopefully the weather keeps getting better and we'll be able to go out more frequently!

Do I have something on my face?

This morning's blackberry received approval from Shade. The mess was also mostly contained to her face and her (previously white) bowl.

The look of surprise with the blackberry beard just kills me.

Fall outing

Today we did something I didn't think we would get the opportunity to do once again this year - we went outside! It had been getting progressively colder, but this week-end felt like Summer came back.

I won't have a picture of everyone, as the sun was shining brightly and I had a hard time focusing (or even seeing what I was doing).

Here are the ones I did get -

It was a lovely day...

...so everyone went outside!

It's only the second outing of the year. It's not that we haven't been getting nice weather, but the past two week-ends were no good, as we had our backyard redone and work was in progress. But all of that got done this week so the birds got to enjoy our lovely new patio.

While they were outside, I was busy mostly gardening. Eventually I thought of taking pictures, but that has proven to be a challenge due to continuous changing light. I didn't even bother with my nice camera, here are a few pictures taken with my phone and to which some Instagram filters have been applied.

Shade

I really like this picture of her. Not the greatest quality (taken with the phone) but there is just something about it that I like.