Great idea Chip!!
I’ll assume you have him trained to lift the covers from those coil cars and not carry them back to his cage. [}:)]
Dave (dwRavenstar)
So SpaceMouse…what kind of Parrot is that you have?
JP
That is a Budgie…
And I found it looking for pictures of rock formations.
Budgie is Australian for Parakeet.
And means “good to eat”… seriously!
Oddly enough, we just bought a parakeet a couple of days ago. Haven’t named it yet, but
he’s a cute little fella. Dave
You’d enjoy the “Special Imagination Award” winner in the 1983 Model Railroader layout design contest. A switchback railroad that took loaded hoppers (operating ones) of seed from a tipple and switched them into the bird cages.
If that wasn’t enough, the town and place names on the layot, and the author’s description of them, was aboslutely hilarious.
–Randy
Randy,
That article was great!! I think there was also some lunar layout also.
Space,
Did you get that budgie RTR or was it a kit? Have you any thoughts of converting it to DCC?
SpaceMouse -
I know all about Parakeets! We have 2 (Pretty Bird and Gigi - kid named them) of them, along with a Quaker (Kiwi) and Amazon (Teeko) Parrots, plus the 4-legged animal called Chopper (aka cat)
JP
Looks like the problems my cousin has with her Brio set - her mum keeps a couple of budgies which apparently have taken to sitting on the track!
Doesnt that silly bird know its illegal to ride the trains these days? What he thinkng too, he is gonna get his feather cooked up there over the vents like that.
John K
(Sittin here trying to picutre out how out of his mind my cat woudl go if he saw that go by. The trains drive him crazy enough as it is.
Best Regards
John k
I’m intrigued that a budgie was looking for pictures of rock formations. When I had a parakeet, all it was interested in was eating. [:)]
Wayne
That will be a great photo for CSX-sucks.com.
Space,
Looks like that engine is gonna get some interesting weathering soon.
We had a cockatiel that used to like to stand by the track and peck at the trains as they went by. Then I realized he was harvesting my coal for his grit, and he had to find a new hobby. Funny, he din’t like ballast but coal.
Budgerigars are mainly seen in Western Australia, where I’ve seen flocks of a hundred or more in the wild. Fortunately, the locomotives out there are 87 times bigger than that in the illustration, so they aren’t as much at risk as the one illustrated. The wild ones are basically green and yellow, like Chip’s - the blue ones must be bred specially. We have lots of other parrots, generally bigger than Budgerigars, and they are among the most common birds locally. The range of colours is amazing, from white to crimson and blue. But budgerigars and cockatiels are basically only seen as pets in the Eastern States.
Peter