Ditto's new years resolution....

[Z28Taxman]

Ditto must have made a resolution to get more exersize. He's been wound up all day, playing with everything.

And tonight while I was getting his dinner ready, instead of sitting on my shoulder supervising, he decided to fly laps. From the cage to the kitchen, zoom around my head and back to the cage again. And then do it again, and again and again.:rotfl


I knew it wouldn't last though. Once the food went in, he followed it as usual.:whistle:

[kikibird]

Didn't you say you were taking some time off work in another post? Maybe he's happy to have the extra attention with you home :happy:

What mutation is he? Is he pied? What else? I have some babies (3 so far) and I'm hoping some look a little like him. Mom is Lutino and dad is Am. Cinn, Pallid, Aqua Seagreen visual. So far I have 2 cinnamons that will probably be light colored.

[Z28Taxman]

Yep. I've been off for a week and a half so he gets to sleep in. No more 6am wakeups.

He's a Pied Cobalt Seagreen (very heavily pied, he's almost all yellow with white flights and mostly pink feet).

[kikibird]

Well, he's very gorgeous!

[linda040899]

Ditto must have made a resolution to get more exersize. He's been wound up all day, playing with everything.
Perhaps that new light fixture you just got from Avi-Tech has something to do with it! I just ordered 3 for my lanai aviary. Lighting has always been a problem out there so I'm hoping this will make a difference!!!

[Z28Taxman]

Perhaps that new light fixture you just got from Avi-Tech has something to do with it! I just ordered 3 for my lanai aviary. Lighting has always been a problem out there so I'm hoping this will make a difference!!!

Probably due more to the the fact that I haven't gone to work since the friday before christmas so he's been sleeping in for the last 2 weeks and not waking up at 6am when it's still dark.

He's one well rested, wound up birdy! Flinging food, ringing bells and screeching. He's about to slow down though. It's his hang out with daddy and watch tv time. So now he gets an hour of skritches and beak rubs. He's not satisfied until every feather on his face is rubbed so they're sticking out everywhere. He looks like a demented santa when he's done. :rotfl

[Z28Taxman]

Ok, now I think he's getting too much sleep. The last few nights he doesn't want to go to bed at 10:45 when his light shuts off and I can hear him bouncing around in the happy hut until after midnight.

Yesterday I came down just before 8:30 and he was still in the hut. Not sleeping just sitting there with his head sticking out waiting for me to uncover him.

Today at 8:45 he was already up and started calling as soon as he heard me coming down the stairs.

It is interfering with his afternoon naps though. Usually he settles in for a snooze around 1pm, but lately he settles in, but the zoom, can't sleep and is bouncing all over the place. He doesn't nap until 3 (when I do) then by 3:30 he's at it again.

[Pips mom]

Hmmm, Pip always goes to sleep for me.......soon as I cover them up, within a few minutes I hear his little beak grinding away! For such a bold lil lovie, he sure does some things very good! going to sleep is one of them. He also goes in his cage for me on cue of a green baseball hat......I show him the hat and he goes right in for me.......rarely he'll be in the mood to watch me chase him around though when he's in an especially mischeivous mood I guess!
Pip is always the first one up in the am........he's also the one I hear as soon as I walk in the door! He's pretty good about staying calm until the cages are uncovered in the morning, but every once in a while I'll hear him lifting up his cage door and dropping it.....amazing how well they are able to commicate their wants to us humans!!! They are SO full of energy! I think Pip flies as much here as he would in the wild. He sure loves to fly! The more flight feathers grown back, the further distance he'll fly. The others all just seem to fly mostly when they think it's necessary......with lovies it's just for fun!!

[Z28Taxman]

Ditto doesn't fly that much. He's been fully flighted now for almost 9 years but usually once he gets to me he's done flying. He will however, not hop on my shoulder to come out sometimes though. He'll wait until I walk away then fly to me.

Getting him back in his cage is easy though. When he's hanging out with me and it's time to go in all I have to do is walk over to the cage and he hops right in (he knows it's time). And on the rare occasions that doesn't work all I have to do is put a bit of food in his dish even if it's full) and he zooms right in there.

He didn't want to go to bed the last 2 weeks because I was off work so he got to sleep in until 9am.

Tonight he's practicing being a rattlesnake. He's been playing with his knotrageous toy with his back to one of his bell's and every so often he'll turn, stretch and attack it. It's quite a stretch too, I can't believe he can reach it without falling but he never does.