I was going to make this post about the overview of my recent observations, but something interesting happened today that changed my mind. So I will just be discussing some of our Sunday because I feel like it was, in my opinion, important.
I change his cage whenever I feel it is necessary. And today happened to be one of those days. I could feel that he was angry while I changed his cage. Mainly because he was making these cooing like noises and was in an aggressive stance. The stance consisted of him leaning forward toward me. It doesn't sound like an aggressive stance but compared to his regular pose, it was. That made the actually act of changing his area somewhat difficult, but I still managed to get it done. In the end that got Little Bird in a better mood. Later that day I was eating an apple and that happens to be one of Little Bird's favorite fruits. I sat on my bare floor and peeled part of the apple with my teeth. I couldn't help but notice him staring at me the entire time. Once I peeled a fair amount of the apple, I stood up and bit off a piece and fed it to him. He wasted no time and immediately ate the entire portion within five minutes (the piece was roughly the size of a small bouncy ball cut in half). I also left three more chunks in his cage for later. Once he finished, he turned around in circles on top of his cage and cleaned his beak off on the cage bars. What I found to be interesting was that he kept turning around in circles. Slowly but enough for me to take notice. I believe he was happy. Every once in a while he would peer down into his cage and see the other apple fragments but refused to go into his cage and eat them. By then I had finished my apple so I went up to him and offered a bite, but he turned me down. About six or seven minutes later his breathing slowed (noticed from his chest expansions) and his eyes started to close. This wasn't an eventful day, but I like to believe that Little Bird was happy today. Just one tiny insignificant piece of an apple made him happy (well it must have been significant to him). It made me feel happy.
Your bird sounds pretty smart just like a human. I would have aslo fed him some of the apple if he was just there starring at me eat lol. It's cool how it makes you happy when he is happy, shows that you care so much for him.
ReplyDeleteI have always wanted a pet bird, they sound fun to take care of. Do you know why he was mad at the beginning? Maybe he was hungry. I also wonder, is it okay to feed birds food as such? I want to know. We all have something similar though, luv apples too :)
ReplyDeleteI think we can learn alot from your little bird. The littlest things can be the happiest. If we take this message and carry it through our lives, we would be much happier.
ReplyDeleteI have birds too (: . They're really cool and interesting. You did a very nice job with your descriptions.
ReplyDeleteI like how you observed your bird by looking at it and assuming the bird is happy. I did not know that birds really like apples. I also like how you describe his "Aggressive stance."
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