Social media, feasting and a prize!

I joined Instagram recently (@onesweetiepea) & took part in the Instagram challenge #12daysoffolksy.

Folksy is the home of British Craft, where you will find thousands of beautifully designed creations – all made by clever hands crafting away across the UK.  They set up an Instagram challenge to help promote Folksy, promote its sellers (& others!) & to have a bit of fun!

I am a new Folksy seller & you can imagine that some of my items are inspired by birds or bird-related (link to my shop is at the bottom of this page).  Naturally, I used some of the chosen themes to ‘promote’ my birds!  Day 10 was ‘Feast’, so I posted a picture of Dalai, Perry & Lennie feasting on red millet:

Dalai, Lennie & Blurry Perry

 

I was delighted to find that they won a prize for the best animal-themed post for Day 10!  They had more red millet to celebrate!

The eagle-eyed amongst you will have recognised the above photo from a previous post in 2017.  (Click here to see that post).  The slight sadness in this is that the red millet was in celebration of Bezukhov’s 7th birthday & you can see him in the photos in the original post.  So, I feel he deserves a mention too, given that had he not had a 7th birthday, they would not have had that millet & therefore the photos would not have been taken & the prize not won!  So we give big thanks to our dearest, departed friend, Bezukhov.

You can also see in the photo that Dalai had his troublesome feather!

 

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Happy 2nd Adoption-day, Perry & Lennie!

It was two years ago on this day that I brought home these two beautiful, blue birds.

I would like to say they are maturing beautifully, but they are still rascally rascals!  Lennie is still pursuing Dalai & still gets worried that he is missing something!  Perry is still pretty laid back which is great because if he was not, life as Lennie’s cage-mate would be challenging!

Lennie & Perry

 

Happy adoption-day, my blue rascals!

We love you lots!

♥♥♥

 

Remembering Raspy on her birthday

Happy birthday my beautiful girl.

Here is a video of Raspy eating vegetables from about 8 years ago:

 

Always in our thoughts.

xxx

 

Remembering Atilla on her birthday

Happy birthday my beautiful girl.

Here is a video of Atilla eating dill from about 8 years ago:

 

Always in our thoughts.

xxx

 

 

Happy 8th Birthday, Bezukhov!

Happy 8th Birthday to my beautiful boy, Bezukhov!

Bezukhov

 

You are one in a million.  We love you lots!

xxx

 

Remembering Cagney on his birthday

Today would have been Cagney’s 8th birthday.  What a marvellous character he was – mischievous & endearing.  And he is still missed.

Here is a video of Cagney quietly eating wild grass:

 

Thinking of you, my lovely boy.

We love you.

xxx

 

 

Remembering Thomas on his adoption day

Thomas came into our home on this day, 5 years ago.  He was very handsome & loved by all. 

Here is a video of when I tried to entice him out with wild grass:

 

Always in our thoughts.

♥♥♥

 

Happy 2nd Adoption-day, Dalai!!!

Dalai came into our home on the 14th March 2016.  He was, we believe, around 5 months old at the time, putting his birthday (or hatchday) at sometime in October.  As we do not know the exact date that he came into this world, we celebrate the date he came into our lives.

I had to double-check the year he arrived as I feel like he has been here much longer!  Here he is admiring himself in the mirror:

 

Happy adoption-day, Dalai darling.

We love you lots!

♥♥♥

 

Dalai

 

Happy 1st Adoption-day, Perry & Lennie!

It was one year ago on this day that I brought home these two beautiful, blue birds.  They were both around 8 weeks old & most likely from the same breeder.  We had not long lost our dear friend Phineas, so their arrival was very welcome.

Over the last year, their personalities have emerged & they are quite different.

Perry is pretty laid back & chilled out.  He does not mind my presence & will sit on my finger/hand & readily take food from me.  He is liked by both Bezukhov & Dalai.

Lennie seems immature next to Perry, despite being the same age.  He seems to be permanently worried that he is missing something important, so is always on the lookout for what is going on.  He gets on well with his cage-mate Perry but this may be because Perry is particularly easy-going!  Unfortunately, Lennie still needs to learn some social skills & whilst persistent pursuing of Dalai will produce some results (a kiss & a flirt), he is not always tolerated.  He is wary of me but loves millet so will force himself to eat a bobble from my hand!

Here are the gorgeous boys:

Lennie & Perry

 

Happy adoption-day, my blue rascals!

We love you lots!

♥♥♥

 

Remembering Phineas on his adoption day

Phineas came into our home on this day, 5 years ago.  Here is a video of him, my finger & some preening:

 

Missing you, our little man.

Always in our thoughts.

♥♥♥