‘Birdie! Birdie!’ I repeated out loud after seeing a photo of you attracting non-human life forms, such like butterflies, birdies and critters. I see that that they are unafraid of your presence, too. Mr. Pimon, our parakeet, is unafraid as I brought my face up close to his overgrown beak. He has taken on illness, though. Like the other five parakeets sharing his bird cage, he has liver disease. Yet he is able to fly about, eat and sleep but with much pain. He lives yet another day despite the lack of medical attention necessary.
Anyway, we played kissy face this evening. He would be resting on the top of the cage somewhere at my eyelevel. I remember big Budgie, who rested in the same manner during her sickness, too. I’m too short and had too tippy toe just to reach him. His beak would open and close rapidly while bobbing his head up and down. This behavior means parakeets are happy.
Lightly, he tapped the left side of my eyeglasses. Later I would bring the tip of my nose for him to peck as he bobbed his head up and down. He seemed interested in the horizontal portion of my eyeglasses. I had to hold my breath so as not to inhale his bad breath or feathers and keep steady so as not to frighten him. I then walked away slightly, turned around clockwise and then counter-clockwise motion just as the parakeets would do when they are excited and approached him again for another kissy session.
This is as close I would get to any other non-human form in years. I am comforted knowing he seems fine with the Omega 3 & 6 food supplements added to the parakeets’ diet. I guess besides my parents, the parakeets are my only other ‘friends’, save for a bushy, red-color squirrel and some small birds, who visit our birdbath located in our backyard.
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