Have y'all forgotten about me yet? lmao.

Birb update time!

So I do still have Echo but he's out in the aviary with my Corella and he's much, much happier out there. He's not a people birb and he enjoys the company of other birbs so it made sense to give him what he wants and make him happy!
I also have my lil girl, Ellie, who is super bonded to Echo and will be joining him out in the aviary once she is more confident at flying. They will most likely make me some pretty babies in the future!

I haven't raised a baby since Teddy and I was missing it so much. I posted an ad on my local birb site looking for a baby to raise. Would you believe my luck, the same guy that I bought Sam from in 2016 texted me and said he had a 6 week old that he'd be willing to sell to me unweaned because he knows I am experienced and good at it.

He sent me the photo and I absolutely melted. I actually cried a little, because he looked SO much like Sam at that age and it hit me kind of hard. Words cannot explain how much I loved that bird and I haven't gotten over losing him yet. I probably won't ever, but I hope that wherever he is, he's being looked after well and spoiled as he should be.

Anyway we had arranged for the exchange on Friday or Saturday but due to Covid lockdown and restrictions (we are in Sydney, Australia) we had to choose a meeting location that was 10km or less from each of our homes. We found the perfect spot but as of tonight I will be unable to travel more than 5km from my house so we moved the exchange up to today! 

This is my lil boy. He doesn't have a name yet, I haven't stumbled across the perfect name as yet like I did with Sam so I am open to suggestions lol. I like short, easy to say names (max and sam have already been used)

Him so handsommmme.

I finally got him to wean. He just needed a change of routine lol. I had him sleeping in a travel cage in my spare bedroom and every morning when I got him up we'd go straight to the kitchen and he'd start screaming to be fed and wouldn't let up until I did it. 

Now i've got him in his big boy cage in the living room and sometimes I can't let him out right away so I uncover him, fill his veggie bowl and go about my business and he's fine. Then I let him out and he has a cuddle and a fly around and he's back to his cage to eat some more and chatter to himself. He doesn't beg for formula at all now and i'm pretty sure he's forgotten all about it. It's fucking wonderful lol.

Here are a couple birb-on-his-back pictures!