Digger is a beautiful Blue Quaker. I have been working with her for a few weeks now trying to get her to step up and in general be more social with me and less scared of people. It's been very slow going. I have noticed that with smaller birds it always takes longer to get them used to people, probably because they are small and we are huge in their eyes.
I have been very lucky with digger. She doesn't bite, heck she barely even nibbles. So if she ends up on the floor I can just pick her up and carry her back to her perch on the play stand. Makes life so much better if I am not bleeding all over the place. =D Besides, blood would muck up her feathers and she's so pretty I wouldn't want that. ;-)
"Ain't I perdy!"
This was the first time I got her to stay on the bird stand. Not only did she hang out there for an hour...she hung out there with 4 other birds for an hour! Only one of said birds was hand tame so getting them all there was an adventure in and of it's self. XD
Here are 4 of the 5, bottom left is Toro (Jenday Conure), top left is Digger (Blue Quaker). Right front is London (Green Cheek Conure) and next to him is Zora (Peach Front Conure) both of whom decided that this was the right moment to turn away from the camera. D=
Digger and I had a little, short lived break through today. She and Zora were climbing around their cages and for what ever reason got spooked taking to the skies. Zora zipped past me and landed on the floor near my bedroom. Digger landed on the arm of my chair next to me, stayed about a minute before panicking and flying away and landing on Echo's cage, which in turn had me panicking. (Everyone is fine, got digger off his cage rather quickly.)
So, were working on it. Small steps every day. It takes time to earn trust back, and I have lots of time to work on it. =D
I have been very lucky with digger. She doesn't bite, heck she barely even nibbles. So if she ends up on the floor I can just pick her up and carry her back to her perch on the play stand. Makes life so much better if I am not bleeding all over the place. =D Besides, blood would muck up her feathers and she's so pretty I wouldn't want that. ;-)
This was the first time I got her to stay on the bird stand. Not only did she hang out there for an hour...she hung out there with 4 other birds for an hour! Only one of said birds was hand tame so getting them all there was an adventure in and of it's self. XD
Digger and I had a little, short lived break through today. She and Zora were climbing around their cages and for what ever reason got spooked taking to the skies. Zora zipped past me and landed on the floor near my bedroom. Digger landed on the arm of my chair next to me, stayed about a minute before panicking and flying away and landing on Echo's cage, which in turn had me panicking. (Everyone is fine, got digger off his cage rather quickly.)
So, were working on it. Small steps every day. It takes time to earn trust back, and I have lots of time to work on it. =D
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