Enough with the Cold

I don't know if you've noticed but it's cold!  Now I know that everyone has been freezing outside and that the temperature has been below zero (Miss Renee tells us all this stuff).  But it hasn't been all that warm and cozy in the library either.  Maybe you haven't noticed, but the children's room of the library is on the chilly side.  Now while you human beings can put on a coat or a sweater to keep warm, there isn't much that Kyp and I can do.  So when we're cold you'll notice we tend to sit more and fluff out all our feathers.  It makes us look like little puffy balls.  Plus we're not as active when we're cold.  Can you imagine having cold bare feet all the time - it's not fun!  

Well, we're lucky.  Miss Renee noticed that we weren't really active and that we were always fluffed up, so she and Miss Sue got busy looking for a solution.  At first they tried turning up the heat in the children's section but that didn't do much to keeping the chill away.  So solution number 2 was to find a way to heat the cage.  Miss Renee looked into getting a heat lamp for us, but she was having a hard time finding one that wasn't designed as a floor lamp.  That doesn't help us since our cage is on a counter.  But eventually a heater was found - two in fact.  The first was a heated perch, the wiring went through and made the perch warm so that when Kyp or I sat on the perch it would warm our feet and up into out bodies.  This sounded fantastic!  Unfortunately, when the perch came in it was huge - way to big for our little cage.  The other option was a heating pad that could be attached to the side of the cage near our perches and we can snuggle up next to it and get warm.  This was perfect.

So if you're checking out our cage you'll notice a gray panel, that is our heater.  It keeps our cage nice and warm and we're much happier.  We do ask though that you not touch our heater, because well its hot, it won't burn but it's best not to fiddle with it.

So now we are quite the happy pair.  We get all the natural UV sunlight that we need from our lamp, and we're nice and snuggly warm with our new heater.  Miss Renee says that since we've gotten these things we are much more active than ever and we look very healthy.  So while every one else is freezing with the unpredictable weather, Kyp and I are quite content in our little home - though we could use some more veggies or scrambled eggs in our food cups.

Snow Day

Do you know what happens when there is a snow day?  Everything closes, even the library.  We are aware that everyone gets excited for snow days because it means they don't have to go to school and they get to go out and play.

But for us, snow days are lonely.  We spend the day in the library all by ourselves.  No little kids to watch scrunch their faces up to the cage, no staff members to talk to us, no conversations to listen to, or parents to tell us we are pretty.  Just the two of us together.

Now don't think that we're ungrateful - snow days are also a day for us to explore the library.  We get to read books, play with the trains, and even explore the internet.  After all how do you think we get to write this journal.  Plus it gives us a chance to really stretch our wings and fly.  This past snow day we got to sit on the bird house by the window and watch the snow fall and see the squirrel who was very busy.  He kept running to one side of the window and out of sight, but when he came back his cheeks were stuffed.  We weren't sure what he was doing, but guessed he was collecting food.

Another thing we did was ride the shelves.  Its a fun game we've discovered here at this library.  Though Miss Renee has informed us its a bird only game.  We sit on the top of the stacks, one of us pushes the button and flies up to sit and we take a ride as the stack moves.  Its rather fun.  But our favorite thing to do is find a cozy spot to read.  Sometimes we read out loud to each other and sometimes we read to ourselves.  But reading helps the time pass.

We would like to know: what do you do on a snow day?

Answer to our quiz.

Just so you know.
Bird A is Kyp
Bird B is Percy
How can you tell, just look at the tops of  our heads.  Kyp has a big spot and Percy has two little spots.

Can YOU tell us apart?

Time for a quiz!!!  Can you tell Percy and me apart?

Bird A

Bird B

Just put your answer in the comments, and we'll tell you if your right or wrong.

Thank you

Thank you Auntie Pat for our new sandy perch.  Auntie Pat sent this to us for Christmas.  She is a librarian at the Auburn Library  who used to take care of us when Miss Renee was away for vacation.  In fact she still does take care of us.  Before we moved to our new location - the Auburn Library was having a new carpet put in a we couldn't be around the glue.  Miss Renee has a cat at home so we couldn't go home with her.  So Auntie Pat took us home for 2 weeks.  She talked to us and sang to us and even read us stories.  We really enjoyed staying with her.  We're told that she'll bird sit us any time.  But we really appreciate the new perch.  I helps keeps our nails nice and trim and its a great new color.  THANKS AUNTIE PAT!