All about English Budgies - Tribute to Gaus my English Budgie
Tribute to Gaus my English Budgie
FULL SCREEN PLEASE! Gaus died May 10, 2008. I didn't make mention of it right away. I had a very bad bird day that day. I wrote about it on my Live Journal. Gaus was born in 1997 and that's when I got him. He's the first baby budgie I ever hand fed. I used to call him "her" because the breeder that sold him to me told me it was a hen. I found out later when his pink nose never turned brown and he talked that he was a male. Gaus lived through the start of the internet, about five moves, and several lives of my other most beloved birds I've had. English budgies average four years. I'm so happy he lived above and beyond that for 10. He as very gentle and friendly. And he was fat. I used to call him helicopter budgie because his wings would beat so fast but he would hardly get any speed. He flew real slow like a cargo plane and couldn't fly far because he constantly fell slowly. In these pictures you see him with several other budgies. He's had lots of babies. I retired him about five years ago when he wasn't able to fertilize his mate anymore. She passed on before him. He's lived in an aviary ever since until this year when it got cold. I brought him in and he was room mates with Randy the cockatiel and Seep Seep 2 the Gouldian Finch. Toward the end of his life he became Seep Seep's snuggle buddy as you'll see. I loved Gaus's unusual colors. He was a yellow lacewing and you can see that in several of these pictures. He produced a few white lacewinged daughters. Stupid me didn't keep any of them. Around October of last year I really noticed Gaus showing his age and slowing down. So since then I've been expecting this. Not that it made it any easier when I found him at the bottom of his cage that morning. In the last movie I took you can really see how tired he was of life. For that I'm glad he had such a long and amazing life and am glad he finally passed on. But I wish he'd had a few more years in him. Had he lived to September I could have said he was 11. The song is Recuerdos de Calahuayo by Ensamble Pachamama. I love Andean and Inca music. This song is in my top five favorites and I tend to listen to it whenever I lose a close pet. It helped me through Phage's death back in July. It's a happy and sad tune all at the same time. I don't know how that's possible but I love it. The beep you hear at the end is Randy beeping like the microwave.
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