24 May, 2004

Day 34

Update: This morning, Sherbet had her first flight. A few hours later she made a second attempt but unfortunately collided with a window. So far she appears to be fine and is resting on a perch in the cage. Most interesting to us is that she didn't practice, she could just do it. On her first flight she managed to land again on the cage after doing a lap around the room. On the second flight she had to be picked up after the rather unceremonious and undignified collision.


Sherbet comes out of the nest box several times per day now. She still doesn't make any effort to fly. She is still familiarising herself with climbing around the cage and balancing on the perches. Yesterday we put Sherbet onto LB's shoulder and Kiwi immediately flew over and landed on her shoulder as well. That was exceptionally unusual behaviour for Kiwi who has never landed on any of us.

Pickle is growing nicely. It comes to the nest box door to look out, but has not made any effort (that we are aware of) to climb out.