Our New Feathered Friend

About 6 months ago we lost one of our budgies (parakeets). We still don't know what happened to her. She went from fine to gone in 24 hours :( She was our only bird in the living room (the rest of the flock is in the bedroom). We all really enjoyed her being in there! She was great company during the day. After we lost her, I missed her presence. Ethan would walk up to the cage every so often and just look longingly at its empty contents.

We wanted another bird for in there. But we didn't know what kind. It had to be:
1. Quiet - that's the only room with a tv and we didn't want to have to turn it up to hear over the bird's vocalizations
2. Okay with being away from the other birds
3. Laid back/not easily scared - after all, we have 2 young boys playing and making noise in there all day!
4. Inexpensive

Saturday we had the opportunity to see a lot of birds all together. We didn't go in planning to get one, but we walked out with this beauty!


She's a Rosy Bourke. She's not tame but she's definitely not scared of us! She even will eat with the boys playing only inches away from her food dish :) Some of her species are handfed, but she was parent-raised. I think we'll be able to tame her eventually though! If not, and till then, we're happy she's not skittish with the boys!

It's so nice having a bird in there again! Ethan talks to her often in the sweetest voice! Gabriel went up to her yesterday and said Hiiiii!!! She chirps back when we talk to her and is just a friendly little sweetheart!

BTW, we don't know if she's a she or a he LOL You can't visually sex them. So since we don't know, I just couldn't call a pink bird a he if we weren't sure ;)

As for her name... Our bird names have always had themes. She belongs with the Jim Henson characters - Mokey was one of the main characters on Fraggle Rock, one of my favorite tv shows of all time!