Funny how the birds go and off various foods. For a while, they gobbled up the sweet red peppers I put in their cage; then they wanted nothing to do with them, so I stopped offering them. I tried again months later, and suddenly they’re gobbling again. I love how the feathers around their beaks get stained pepper-red when they’ve been munching all day.
News! Celery, my female, is laying eggs. There were two a couple weeks ago, and then nothing, and now another tonight. I’m pretty sure the birds are not mating -- the word is that parakeets won’t mate if they don’t have a nice snug nest to nurture the eggs in, and these two don’t have that -- so I’m pretty sure the eggs are infertile. Celery seems spectacularly unconcerned with the eggs. The first two were broken by the time I discovered them in the bottom of the cage -- I suspect that Celery pecked at the first one and broke it, but that the second one fell a distance and broke that way. But this third one is intact. I’m gonna leave it on the floor of the cage for a while and see what, if anything, they do with it.
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