I just thought I'd start the Whistle this month since I couldn't sleep.  I can't belive time seems to be moving so fast. October already! Not much is going on here with the birds besides a lot of hormones. Kit is still a spoiled brat, still occasionally plucking, pesking, demanding, noisy, but sweet anyway. Domino and Penny ('tiels) are sitting on  eggs again despite all the covering earlier to provide more dark, moving around, rearranging and playing musical cages trying to distract them. Well it worked for several months anyway. Kit is like an expectant father. He gets excited any time anyone takes the daily look in the box. He's already starting to cluck like a mother hen. Goofy bird. I have  5 of 6 adult 'tiel hens that are not paired that are hormonal and "advertising" and backing up to toys or under seed cups on and off all day. Rica the Alexandrine is still calling out the window, moaning, clucking and advertising as well as nesting in a chew up phonebook in the bottom of the cage. most of the breast feathers and tail she had regrown earlier this year are gone again. Not as many as last year and she did leave them a bit longer when she did have them. A slight improvement. Maybe some day she and Kit will leave their feathers alone, but they don't have to be perfect here to be loved.