Oh Helga, you have the hands of a truck driver with the delicate touch of a hummingbird’s kiss…
How much does Helga charge, because the bird’s got the right idea, Melissa G-L.
Crank the Enya and Warm the Lava Rocks
March 3, 2010 By
Cute Overload :D
I wuvs you, hoomin.
My birdy loves a nice, gentle massage, too!
Do birds purr? This one would if he could!
A Hoot!
“the delicate touch of a hummingbird’s kiss”
I will be using this sometime, somehow, somewhere… Lovely
looks more like the vulcan death grip O_O
Awwww…my Paquita lurves that too. Sadly, Paco would take my fingers off if i dare touch him. That’s ok, one out of two is not so bad.
This birdie looks lost in his/her human’s touch. So sweet.
I swear I’m not a helga =P (yes my hands aren’t so pretty hahaha)
But my bird (yes it’s mine) called Chat (Cat) is the sweetest [...] in the world =)
And he loves to be pet all the time !
[Think before posting, please - Ed.]
Aw, look at the closed eye! That is completely relaxed and trusting.
*wishes she were home, scritching her cockatiel boy*
Love the blue eye shadow. Reminds me of my yout back in the 70′s. Birdie looks like she’s getting ready to hit the discos…. “Night fever, Night fe-vahhhhhhhh”
Awww, blissful boidy and the power of the gentle touch.
Actually birds do purr – or rather the bird equivalent. They grind their beaks as a sign of relaxation and general well-being. I can almost hear the beak-grinds of that bird from here!
Bird Bliss at it’s finest
@Dona – Don’t you love that sound??? I love it when our two birds sit with us in the evening, their eyes half-closed, feathers all fluffed out, quietly grinding their beaks. It’s such a soothing, comfortable sound.
What a cute feathery swine!
Dona, Leilani — isn’t that called “bruxing”?
YAY for the birdie’s pretty colors & blissed-out look but
OMG YAY for someone besides me who CRANKS the ENYA
(oooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhmmmmmmm)
what a happy boidy and wonderful hooman to luv the boidy so much!
The first time I heard this «grinding» sound, I was afraid he would hurt his beak or that it would end up cracking. Glad to see it’s a normal behaviour, and that on top of that it means he’s comfortable =)
Melissa, your bird is so beautiful! The colors of rainbow sherbet.
thank you ! He has some Indigo blue on his back as well (very shiny !)
Dats one blissed out boid.
Hmm Helga, that names familiar, is it Helga Von Lederhosen the Cherman spy
und domitrix.
Writing the Von reminds me. Von Zeplin, vare are you?
such a happy bird. <3
That is a happy birdie! Lilah only lets me scritch her head and neck with one finger. I think she would freak if I tried both hands!!!
No spray tan for this boidie!
@ Theresa:
izzit YOU or izzit the boidie,
who/ which is from New Yoahk or New Joisie???
I second (or third or fourth) that sentiment about LOVING the beak-grinding bird-bliss sound. There is no more perfect sign of contentment in my house than the sound of my parrot falling asleep, making that sound …….
So delicate touchingks…
It’s pictures like that which make me want a boid. Ah, tickle time!
Why I am from New York, Resrie, but I personally talk like Eleanor Roosevelt.
@ Theresa:
….in the phrasing which I learned (ca. 1968) was the equivalent to “yeah man, I dig it” when we were Amer. military living on base in Japan (so it might be entirely rumor):
“Ah, SO deska!!!”
ps @ Theresa:
have you read some in-depth material about the woman who was fairly progressive & avante-garde & ran the boarding-school in which E. R.
(HA!!! The QUEEN abbreviation, there! COOL!) was enrolled as a young girl….evidently she did quite the duckling/ swan transformation mentoring…
When Our Heroine Eleanor wasn’t doing advocacy for the disadvantaged, she gave lots of credit to that headmistress. The school was located in Britain/ England & the headmistress’ name was Marie Souvestre (presumably she herself was French; I only did a minimal internet search & didn’t check out her origins…)
Also (slightly) relevant: my (maternal) grandmother was born in the Queens Borough, NYC in 1897 and lived in that area until she had graduated high school.
Our biog. material on her & her family of origin even lists the Normal School NUMBER where she attended (presumably that specific school is LONG LONG gone).
Signed,
History R Us
@Resriechan – Check online. Your maternal grandmother’s school might still be there. I attended P.S.7 in Brooklyn 50 years ago. It was built in the 1800′s and kids are still going there today.
@ Fran: wow. I are impressed (trying to sound illiterate; but impressed)
THANKS
birdie looks like a blushing bride.
Per Purrrrrring.
Actual I have an Alexandrine Parakeet that actually Purrs (natural noise, not learned or the beak grinding) when I’m petting her or rubbing her like that.
One of my parakeets, of happy memory, loved to be petted on the feathers by her beak; the others, unfortunately, would declare war on my finger and attack it….!
Oh, goodness. I’ve personally been scarred by my own demonic lovebird who has been heck-bent on taking me out, I swear!!
But for those of you who are lovebird lovers here’s an awesomely sweet video of a guy who proves that a bird in the hand is well… you know.
Add-on: You’ll also see the Amazing Cleavage-Diving Lovebird in the related videos!
@Tomato.bandit.queen: Yikes!
i like it!!
Is he purring?
@mommybird: I, too, was wishing I “were home, scritching her cockatiel boy.” Now I’m listening to him grind his beak and fall alseep. It’s such a sweet sound.
Most of my birds were poultry; the chickens cooed like doves when they were relaxed and sleepy, but they also did a chicken-version of beak grinding as they dozed off in the sun. I think even the ducks did it, though it looked more like lipless lip-smacking in their case.
@Theo – I know that bruxing is a rat behavior, the name comes from “bruxism” (grinding of the teeth). I’ve never heard the bird version called anything but “beak grinding”, possibly because of the absence of teeth? Eh, I dunno.
Regardless, that is one happy, limp, colorful birdie! Looks like he’s getting the lovebird version of a TMJ massage, actually.
BStrange – Hence “It’s as rare as Hens Teeth”
This post made me happy
Thank you
Reminds me of Sweetie, a Meyer’s parrot my family had for a while, she loved me and always wanted me to pet her, RIP babygirl! *sniffle*
It remindes me of the scene in the Dumb and Dumber movie where they taped the head back on Petie the Budgie and sold it to a blind kid. Sorry, I wish I had a cuter thought but thats what I though of…
@BStrange & Theo: In my home, it is called “Crunchy Beak”
I used to fluff my litte budgie’s neck like that…he loved it so much. i miss him like BALLS.
Play the Enya low to sleep. Crank the Enya for awesomeness. Squeeze da birdie to get teh cute out. Bottle cute. Sell cute. (: