Beating Boredom

The reality of living in a cage instead of like a wild bird is that occasionally boredom can set in.  We don't have to struggle to survive by finding food and water, evading predators, so in one way our life is quite safe, but that doesn't mean that we don't get bored. Of course the ever changing faces and voices that visit our cage does keep us rather occupied - you'd be surprised what people will do when they think only a bird is watching (wink wink - we won't tell). But people watching can only be interesting for so long. One of the most interesting things we do is arrange our nesting material - that is all the white fluff in our cage.  Creating your own comfortable bed in which to sleep takes quite a bit of work and we take it very seriously (some of us take it a bit more seriously than others, sometimes a little too seriously - Oh be quiet, you seem to like to share a nest and I bet its because mine is more comfortable than your - that's because you are a fluff hog and there are pictures to prove it.) Anyway we spend a lot of time adjusting and moving fluff.  The two pictures below were taken two days in a row and it shows just how much we fuss.

This picture was taken on Wednesday, June 22 in the evening
As you can see the fluff is clearly in the left nest.

This picture was taken on Thursday, June 23 in the morning
As you can see the fluff is now in the right nest

The question was why was all the fluff moved from one nest to the other, that's easy because Miss Renee ruined the fluff in the left nest, see how it is leaning to the right while in the nest on the left well it was originally leaning to the left and Miss Renee flipped it to lean the other way.  As a result Kyp (and Percy though mostly Kyp) felt the need to move it to a completely different nest.  Miss Renee thinks we're a little crazy and fluff obsessed, but what is a bird to do?

So we can beat boredom by playing with fluff.  We understand that kids also get hit with boredom especially during the summer.  Well if you're starting to feel that way don't forget to come to the library.  You can visit with us and find out about all the cool things the library is doing here this summer.  We'll of course talk more about that later.