Hello everyone,

Just letting you all know that I'm well and chirpy as ever!

I just got a new homemade happy hut (a fleece tent that I sleep in) & it's blue with lots of flowers on it!  I like it a lot.

My mom gets me lots of cotton yarn & I get to take it apart.  But I'm not AS into nesting as some other lovebirds are.  My mom says it's unusual for a lovebird to be as sweet as me even when I'm over 2 years old already.  I'm not (too) bitey, that is.

Bird folk, read about some of my relatives who are waiting for good homes here in British Columbia, Canada, at www.greyhaven.bc.ca.  There are some amazing stories there!  Every bird deserves to be a little spoiled darling...

Awright, here's lovebird tweeting lesson #1:

It sounds like this:  doooo---weeep!!!  Lovebirds (and I mean peachies) say this to say "Hello! I'm happy!" or "Hey over there!", or "I'm glad to see you, what'cha doing?"

you humans will do best to whistle this, cause people don't have birdie vocal cords...the "doo" part starts off low, and the "--weeep" part goes higher pitched.  although whistling won't quite give you the "d" in the "dooo" part...

happy tweeting!---dewey

hi all,
I thought you might enjoy an awesome website of one of my compatriots, Frances the M2.  Hopefully she won't mind me posting the link to her site here!  Go Frances!  She's very cool.  She can do things a lovebird can only dream of!

http://www.geocities.com/kia67/francescomments.html

Dewey

OK, how about this one for all my birdy friends:
How to sprout Millet
Take one spray millet and soak it in a pan for 24 hours or overnight
Drain it, and rinse well, then pad dry with a paper towel.
Put the millet in a jar large enough to fit it, leave the top open, place in a sunny area.
Rinse the millet out 3 or 4 times a day under the tap, patting dry each time, replace in jar.  Make sure there isn't a pool of water at the bottom of the jar.
In 2 or 3 days you should have lots of yummy, healthy millet sprouts!  Bunches of white, slightly furry roots and green tops. Feed it to the 'boids before the shoots get too tall, otherwise they aren't nutritious any more.

Be careful and don't feed if there are any black spots, smelliness as this might be mold--but if you rinse 3-4 times a day like I said you should be OK!!

Yum, Millet!

Don't be fooled by my site title...I'm actually a very nice sweety bird.  Most lovebirds are bitey but I'm not, not yet anyways!  Parent-raised birds can be good-tempered, too, if they have humans that are nice to them from an early age.

My humans are too busy reading birdy lists & feeding us fids to do too much work on my blog, but do check back once in a while.  Don't miss these upcoming features:

How to Speak Lovebird---with helpful techniques you can try, too!!  (You don't need to be an expert whistler, just need practice!)

Lovebird Parts of Speech (Peachfaced)

How to Sprout Millet

Why Lovebirds Love Bigger Birds (or Living Dangerously, Lovebird-Style)