Stories of Our Birds

When Jeanne and I met again, after more than 26 years, she owned a dark gray Parakeet, named "Buddy." One day, Jeanne was talking with a friend in the front yard, and she had inadvertently left the front door to her apartment partially open. A neighbor's cat entered Jeanne's apartment through the open door and tried to swallow Jeanne's "Buddy"! The bird managed to stick her wing into the cat's open mouth, so that the cat could not swallow the bird. Jeanne arrived in time to chase the cat out of here apartment and to save her bird. After calming "Buddy" down, Jeanne put the bird back into her cage. "Buddy" did not emerge from her cage for several weeks, but each and every time that "Buddy" would come out of her cage, she would look around to make sure that there was no cat around! "Buddy" had a most peculiar way of descending from the top of her cage: she would go "headfirst" down the side of her cage. When Jeanne introduced me to "Buddy," Jeanne said that "Buddy" was a male. I took one look at the bird and knew immediately that "Buddy" was a girl! When Jeanne and I left for our honeymoon, we left "Buddy" with Jeanne's mother, who also had a Parakeet named "Buddy". When we returned to pick up Jeanne's "Buddy" we found out that Jeanne's "Buddy" had laid 2 eggs, and that forever solved the mystery! We bought "Miss Buddy" a mate, a handsome Cobalt Blue English Budgerigar with opaque white wings. "Miss Buddy" laid 8 eggs at the ripe old age of 10 years. 4 of the 8 eggs hatched, and we were blessed with a male American Budgie "Hybrid" which Jeanne named "Bud" after her father, and 2 female Albino White American Budgies. which Jeanne named "Marie" and "Lucy" after her mother and my mother respectively. AND THEN THERE WAS "WREN" who was a green & yellow male American Budgie and an accomplished escape artist, who enjoyed climbing up our living room curtains and looking down at us from the wooden curtain rod. We have Miss Buddy's great, great grandchildren! collapse