Wednesday evening, Thomas got home a little later than usual. Rocky was screaming as he wanted dinner right! now! and didn't want to wait for Thomas to come home so we could all eat together. I waited until he stopped screaming, so as not to reinforce the screaming, and placed their dinner on their cages. Except for Calypso, who was in the kitchen with me. I knew if I put his dinner on his cage, Rocky would eat all the good stuff out before Calypso even got a chance to see it.
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| No cameras, please! |
I put his food on the counter and he started eating in the kitchen. As Calypso's gotten older (we got him when he was 9; he's 16 now), he's started to get unusual feathering. The colors themselves are consistent for caiques, but not the placement. For example, he has a few orange feathers mixed in with the black on his head, a few yellow tail feathers mixed in with the usual green ones, and, if you look closely in the picture above, you can see a bit of yellow coloring in the upper part of his formerly pure white chest.
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| Do you really have to take my picture? |
I'm not sure what causes this, or if it's typical among caiques (Beeps is 13 and we haven't noticed any of this with him) but I think it gives Calypso more personality and makes him even more beautiful, if that's possible.
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| Fine, but I'm just going to pretend you're not there! |
Stella got a little bit of the action as well, but only after Calypso had gotten his fill:
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| My turn! Hope there's some good stuff left! |
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