So if anyone has read
my latest update on Georgie, you'll know that he and Alex were having a little bit of cuddle time. Alex appears to be doing more of the preening than Georgie, which is unexpected, because Alex has never shown interest in preening anybody, even me (although she loves to
be preened). I was starting to wonder if she didn't know how to preen another bird.
Actually I think she's still learning, because sometimes she tries to preen Georgie's wing feathers. Either she suggesting something dirty or just doesn't understand which parts she should or shouldn't preen.
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Weird to think about really, because this is the same Alex I got before she was weaned, who took
longer than usual to wean, and
still acts like a baby sometimes. The Alex who may have been stunted as a chick from the neglect she got from her bird parents.
At the same time though she
is over a year old, so perhaps she is grown up.
Sometimes it looks like Georgie's trying to feed her, although since that's not a breeding behavior in cockatiels, Alex doesn't seem to understand what he's trying to do. Also it apparently startles Alex when Georgie does the full on courtship dance with the head-bobbing and all, but likes it when he chatters quietly.
At the same time, I noticed that he was performing that same courtship dance to Lucy, as well as chattering to her. Unlike Alex who seems he seems to have already won the heart of, Lucy is
far less interested. I guess Georgie likes the girls that are hard-to-get.
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What a change in dynamic, going from trying to bully them around, to trying to woo them both.
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And it's only been little over a month since I moved him in with the tiels.