Sir Chirpsalot is my English Budgie. He's green and yellow, mostly yellow, and a very mellow happy bird. Today when I was picking up some millet sprays for him, I saw that the pet shop had dropped the price on parakeets and so I picked up a female partner for him.
They are sooooooo sweet together! She is sky-blue with grey stripes on white head and wings. She is about half his size right now and will grow to maybe 2/3 his size. She doesn't have a name yet.
(They won't try to raise any young unless I put a nest box in, and I don't plan to do that.)
Right now the cage is covered with a cloth and they are sleeping, he is on the swing and she is up on a high perch. When I put her in the cage this afternoon, she just stayed very still while he looked and looked, made a few noises and pecked at her feathers and I was a little worried he might just not be willing to accept her because he is so into his mirrors, which he thinks are other birds... sometimes parakeets don't accept birds from other flocks, or so I've been told.
She seemed to ignore him. He tried to groom her feathers then she suddenly made one "chirrup!" noise and he ran over to his favorite mirror and had a long excited conversation with it, then came out bopping up and down and fluffing his head and cheek feathers out, dancing like a fool
So I put some jazz music on and he really got into it while she just cocked her head ever so slightly and watched. Eventually he got tired of trying to get a reaction out of her and he went over to the millet spray that I had wound around a branch. She finally showed some life and went over to the far end of the same spray and they both began eating seeds and glancing at each other aqnd away again. Then she approached him and he fed her. It was so sweet! They almost should have had a little candlelabra in there, they were acting so much like a human couple at a romantic dinner with the saxophone jazz in the background! *LOL*