Pale Tail and Mr. Greeners

Pale Tail and Mr. Greeners are our first family pets that haven't been properly introduced yet. When we first told Maya that we may possibly be moving to India, she agreed to go on one condition that she can finally have her own pet birds. As soon as we landed in India, Maya was in anticipation that perhaps today was her lucky day when she could get her birds. Of course, we had no idea where to find them, but we spread the word around and kept our eyes open for a place to purchase birds. Naturally, it was Maya herself who about one week after our arrival spotted a shop with bird cages on one of the side roads.

One happy girl and two lucky birds were united in a quick transaction. Love birds, as they are locally known, were the only kind sold so that's what we got. According to Maya, this species is also known as warbling grass parakeet, shell parrot, canary parrot, budgerigar, or zebra parrot. Maya got right to work crafting some bird toys, feeding them and taming them to hop on her finger. She did some research online about food preferences, and she is dreaming about her birds laying eggs some day. The first day she reported to us that "I am so happy Mr. Greeners is eating because he needs lots of energy to make sperm".


So far so good. Maya has been tending to her birds, feeding them, and cleaning the cage. She even had to overcome her phobias of dirt and ants. I say Pale Tail and Mr. Greeners scored with Maya as their owner. 

We asked the rickshaw driver to pull over when Maya spotted bird cages in one of the shops

The clay pots have a hole on the side and are used for birds to nest in

Maya made her selection

One white and one green, a male and a female were Maya's requests

Lovebirds are riding home on Eial's lap

Raphael gave up his spot for the birds, so he got to ride with Mr. Kannan in the driver's seat

Still quiet and unsure of their new home

We put the cage on the stairs next to an open window

Here is Pale Tail

Maya is showing birds to her new friends

First night in our home, they cling to each other

Here is a painting of Pale Tail and Mr. Greeners in their natural environment watching a sunset

The first item Eial ordered from Flipkart.com (an Indian version of Amazon) was this book for Maya. She's been reading and studying it daily

There is a house in our neighborhood with huge bird cages attached to the tree. We stop by there a lot to watch the birds

This time the owner of the house opened the gate and invited us to take a closer look

One happy village of lovebirds. We were told they started with only four birds, the rest of them hatched from the eggs