Newest Family Member!

We've decided that Luke must be some sort of reincarnation of Saint Francis or something because he seems to find abandoned animals all the time.  In 2006, he found Snakey the redtailed Columbian Boa Constrictor in our apartment.  In 2009, he discovered Darla, the guinea pig outside of our apartment.  Flash forward to last week and we can now add another creature who has found his/her way into our ever-growing family.

Meet Trogdor...

 

Lucky for Trogdor, we already have Spinelli and anything a parakeet could ever need, so he definitely found his way into the right home.  Luke spotted him in our backyard, and after confirming that it was NOT Spinelli (I made a beeline to her cage when Luke said that there was a yellow parakeet in the yard to make sure that it wasn't her), we managed to lure him with seeds and a perch, and Trogdor and Spinelli have been bonding ever since.

This little budgie is also much cooler than Spinelli.  Spinelli has never been a very people-friendly bird, but Trogdor will let us take him out of the cage and he'll hang out on our shoulders and not immediately fly away like Spinelli will.

I wonder what we'll find next...

Pictures!

Picture #1: Baby birds at my parents' house (we've got a pair of the same type of bird building their nest in our overhang above our side door!).

Picture #2: Lilacs are in full bloom, and our yard is surrounded by all sorts of shades of purple and white.

Picture #3: We finally have a real dining set!  No more crappy goodwill table and folding chairs for us anymore.  No sir-ee.

Picture #4: After spending a couple of hours out in his pen in the backyard, Dwight spent sometime getting to know our deck furniture.