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Post by siobhan on Mar 7, 2015 23:45:34 GMT -5
Johnny either has a huge crush on Maggie or he hates her and I am not sure which it is. No matter where she went tonight, he followed and stood under her very beak telling her off in a big way. He chased her off his cage. He chased her off Freddie's cage. He chased her off Clyde's cage. She ended up on the curtain rod, and he stood in front of her absolutely reading her the riot act. She pulled her head in and let her eyes half close to indicate how unimpressed she was, and pecked in his direction without connecting a couple of times, and he just kept ranting and raving. It was hysterical. He has rules about where she can be, and his, Freddie's and Clyde's cage are not allowed. He will sometimes let her sit in Benjy's cage, which she has lately chosen as her place to lay eggs (she's laid FOUR in the last couple of weeks!!!) but just as often he won't allow that, either. He's generally very mild mannered and just follows Freddie around helping tear up newspaper, but when he's in Cop Mode, Maggie is hardly allowed to exist. I don't know why.
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Post by msdani1981 on Mar 7, 2015 23:59:32 GMT -5
LOL That's hilarious!!!!  |
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Post by Jan and Shah on Mar 8, 2015 4:36:29 GMT -5
That's really unusual - if you said that Maggie was giving Johnny a tough time I would believe it. These cockatiels are full of surprises. Pippin is 12 years old - I have had him for 10 years and he started saying "step up" a couple of days ago. I thought it was Shah but it turned out to be Shah's Arch Enemy (Pippin is the sweetest bird you could meet.)
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Post by siobhan on Mar 8, 2015 13:17:38 GMT -5
Johnny is still chasing her around and she just knocked over a bird house (I have a collection of them in that room) running away from him.
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Post by biteybird on Mar 11, 2015 3:41:23 GMT -5
Is it possible that Johnny has decided that Maggie is his 'woman' (and therefore bossing her around)?
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Post by easttex on Mar 11, 2015 5:09:27 GMT -5
Maybe Johnny is confused. I watch the courtship of a local mockingbird pair every year, and it is starting up here now. It always includes lots of mutual chasing.  |
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Post by siobhan on Mar 11, 2015 9:54:24 GMT -5
If he followed her around all the time, I would agree, but it's when she goes into what he considers HIS territory that he does this. And he lunges at her with open beak, so that's more threatening than romantic, I should think. However, she pays him back. He and Freddie like to steal her food and if she happens to notice them doing it, she comes charging after them and they scramble to get out of her way. Large angry pigeon queen is not to be meddled with. LOL
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Post by julianna on Mar 11, 2015 10:55:23 GMT -5
You paint a very good picture... I can see it all now. LOL also.
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Post by siobhan on Mar 11, 2015 11:14:35 GMT -5
Everybody is out of their cages all day and they steal each other's food constantly. Whatever is in somebody else's dish has to be better than what's in yours (even if it's the SAME THING, LOL). Maggie takes over Benjy's cage and just sits on his floor cooing while the tiels tear up everybody's newspaper and Clyde holds court on the boing with Benjy by his side. So the tiels have the freedom to steal her food without her seeing them do it unless she happens to be waddling around on the floor or coming back to her cage for a snack.
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Post by Jan and Shah on Mar 11, 2015 21:17:20 GMT -5
OMG, I can just see Clyde with his apprentice, Benjy, sitting on the boing observing what everyone is doing - ready to correct their behaviour at a moment's notice if The Chief Bird disapproves.
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Post by siobhan on Mar 11, 2015 22:49:17 GMT -5
Including MINE. I narrowly missed an ear chomp tonight for talking to Freckles the betta. Clyde disapproves of fish in general, but he has a special spite against poor Freckles, or maybe I should say, against my paying any attention to Freckles. He grumbles when I pay attention to the Horde or the wizards, but I usually only get chomped when I talk to Freckles.
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Post by biteybird on Mar 12, 2015 6:29:32 GMT -5
I narrowly missed an ear chomp tonight for talking to Freckles the betta. Well, you should know betta! I picture your house being a kind of madhouse equivalent of an ape enclosure (with the inhabitants' attendant, complex behaviours), except that they can all fly as well as bite. Again, I'm forced to daydream about the ultimate Soapie in the making!  |
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Post by siobhan on Mar 12, 2015 11:57:02 GMT -5
I should know betta. LOL Clyde has certainly corrected me often enough.
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