Yesterday they were leaping into the air and flapping what would barely be called wings. I took a picture of a wing, with its new growth, and just one day later the picture is obsolete. The feathers are growing in so fast it's amazing.
Numbers 0001 and 0100 (still unnamed by the sponsors!) have become lords of their domain by perching on the teddy bear's arm; the rest look up at them in awe... then peck them until they come down. My friend Kerrie and I are betting that they'll learn to escape the nursery sometime this coming Sunday. That is, unless I build a new nursery.
Each day something in their behaviour changes. I'm noticing now that they sleep for longer periods (up to 10 minutes instead of 2 minute) and conversely stay awake for longer periods.
They are as messy as ever. I filled the feeder tonight and it was mostly emptied onto the nursery floor in only 4 hours. A few scratch it out of the feeder, one or two scratch it from the floor to the rest of the nursery, and the others peck at the bits that land in front of them.
There are no more spiders in the house, nor on my deck, nor in the front yard. I've been a good parent.
One remains unclaimed -- 0110. S/he is one of the more vocal and larger keets. It's particularly resistant to being held. Someone adopt it and give it a name!
1 comment:
Hesh, this is so cool. You rock! I need to come up and meet the keets.
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