Originally Posted by mamahippychicky
We have a cockatiel called Ollie and he is like a 'watch bird'. I always know when someone is coming to the house, and he can tell dh's car from any others. He also lets me know when I get home if there have been any visitors or phonecalls as he has yet another 'voice' for that.
He spends most of the time in the cage, but comes out every night for a few hours of play and snuggles with us. If I am hand quilting or knitting he has to inspect every stitch.
they are so much fun aren't they? Snick will only come out at certain times of the day. If I try to get her to come out any other time she refuses! Her cage is her territory! I get her out in the evenings sometimes and she loves to sit on my shoulder and touch her beak to my cheek and we have to whistle. She has decided I do the first half of the wolf whistle and she does the second half over and over and over and over and over! LOL I counted one time and she did this 80 times til I got tired of whistling the first part!!
We used to have a cockatiel DH called Pete(only about the 5th one over the years named Pete!) and she liked to dance to Yakkety Sax!! If you put country on she would scream blue murder!! It had to be Boots Randall's version of Yakkety Sax and she would dance up a storm! Bobbing and gyrating!