Superbowl Sunday Bird Blogging

Sunny the baby sun conure is finally getting more feathers. In the next few months he'll start looking like a sun conure should, replacing those grey downy feathers with gaily colored orange, yellow and green ones. You can compare today's photos with the ones we took when he first arrived. We know now that Sunny is definitely a boy. His DNA test results confirmed that he's a male, and his other lab tests gave him a clean bill of health.

He gets more tame by the day and enjoys sitting on our shoulders and playing tug-o-war with us using his toys. He likes being hand fed with sunflower seeds, peanuts and pieces of fruit. He can still be very territorial around his cage though, which you can see is filled with attractive toys. He spends most of his time on the top of his cage and atop his adjacent gym, alternating between rowdy playfulness and pooped out napping. His home in our den, with many windows, provides him a bird's-eye view of the skies, trees and outside birds that visit our backyard feeders.

Sunny's all wet above, after a bath in his water bowl. He likes to be sprayed with a water bottle too, so he can get soaked in all the places he can't reach himself. He says his bath yesterday was in preparation for today's Superbowl. Sunny is avidly rooting for the Seahawks, him being an avian and all, but the humans in the house are both Steelers fans. Let's hope he doesn't drown out the game with his squawks for the Hawks! (Click on photos for larger images.)