Woodstock Lucille - Surprise (again)!

Well. One minute the little darling was flying around the room while I was getting ready to change her cage, landing for a snuggle and a head-scritch, and not five minutes later...

I heard little hisses like a slow air leak from somewhere - I turned around to look at the bird, and she's busy laying an EGG! And now we have a hissing, foot-shifting, tail-spreading MESS of maternal defensiveness! Psycho Mommie-Bird. To her credit, though, she only mock-bites at my hand if I put it in the cage, and she will come out and sit on my shoulder (acting like her usual self). The vet says there could be another one in 48 hours, although we'll be trying to prevent it by keeping her cage covered for all but 8 hours a day. We're to leave the egg in the cage, and call the vet Thursday to report.

Meantime, Woody has a new center to her universe. (It's no longer Yours Truly, *sigh*.)

Would you look at this Mess of Mom-ness... she's actually crouching & shifting from foot to foot, tail all spread out, wings a little open, fluffed up, top-knot slicked back, and hissing.




I'm Big, Bad, and Dangerous. Don't even THINK about messing with me. (says the Ninety-Gram Wonder...)

(This pic was taken without a flash, BTW, so as to agitate her as little as possible!)