Sunday, June 18, 2006
After the movie, at about mid-day, I took the girls over to the local pet store again. I had mentioned that the last time I had been there to pick up some millet sticks, they had had a white albino bird and a couple of yellow lutinos.
They were all set on having the white one, but we found that it had been sold. We arrived at the store just as a local bird breeder also arrived, who was obviously trying to sell his birds and was also checking out the other birds that were there, expertly grabbing a bird of interest and inspecting its features carefully as it wriggled in his hand. In the end it was established that breeder couldn't expect more than half of the selling price for a given bird, which the seller didn't seem too happy about, but grudgingly accepted.
All the while both girls were inspecting the birds, and they both settled upon one of the two lutinos, the one which had pure yellow wings but had streaks of green on its chest and belly. It has a light purple cere, so I have no idea as to the sex, but it was obviously spunky since it kept pecking the box it was in on the way home from the pet store.
The name that was settled upon a few blocks from home was "Goldie". This one settled in fairly quickly with the others, and I suspect it may prove to be a real "character".
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