We had an amusing day with JubJub today. For a normally quiet and non-exploring bird, he sure did get up to lots!

First, just after breakfast, I hear a funny noise from the cage beside my chair and look over to see JubJub haning upside-down from his perch, chewing on the bottom of it, wings flapping as he tried to stay put! He was having such a grand old time that he didn't even realise I was laughing at him for a good 30 seconds . When he did, though, he looked at me and just let go of the perch, totally forgetting he was upside-down! Poor thing fell like a rock to the bottom, but was straight back up to the top and huddled up looking as boring as possible before I could even react . He tried pretending to be asleep for a while, but I could see him watching me to check if I was still watching him .

Next, at about lunch time, I was standing on the other side of the room and just about to walk outside when I glance over to see him crouched down over his perch. Thinking that something might be wrong, I turned to watch him, and must have startled him as he was about to jump, because he leaped from his perch to the swing, but totally missed, flipped over the swing and fell to the next perch! Once again, seeing me watching, he climbed straight back to the top and pretended to sleep again!

And finally, tonight, just as I sat here beginning to type this post, I hear a funny noise and glance over (carefully, just in case he's being funny again) and he was bobbing his head and "tooting" to a tune on the tv . I've never seen him dance before, but he was having a good time bobbing along to the Simpson's theme song .

Aah, what a day. If only I could have caught any of it on camera . Despite the falls, I'm pretty happy by this, as I am hoping it means he's finally getting some more confidence . Maybe he'll actually start playing with new toys when I put them in, too, instead of just freaking out . He was interested in the bell I put back in today, and walked over for a quick look.

Silly silly JubJub, hopefully he'll be a bit more co-ordinated soon .

Aww! JubJub, you are such good bird! Sounds like he is coming along so well.

Ha! JubJub you are silly. I sometimes see Brian doing the hanging upside down thing whilst chewing a perch. What are they like! Must be another one of those aussie bird things!

Poor JubJub, what did you do to yourself today. You definitely had some excerise. Don't be so afraid of mommy, she loves you.....

Jess: He does seem to be coming along well now, we had a "whistle conversation" this morning for about 10 minutes before he'd had enough. Normally he'll only answer me when I'm in another room, but I sat next to the cage and he was happy to chat, it was really nice .

abc: I think it is an Aussie Bird thing, have you ever seen a Galah (Rose-breasted cockatoo) in the wild? They are the craziest birds I've ever seen! I've seen photos of two of them fighting over who got to perch on top of a tennis ball, of all things! They're always hanging upside down from trees, too .

T&J's Mom: He sure did get a lot of exercise! I had to laugh each time he saw me watching and would pretend to be asleep, though