For info on the first one go here: Poopsie
These are the second pair I raised. They are from the same parents as Poopsie but a different clutch.

Sarah's mom was visiting from Indiana, she named them Cheepers and Peep because one was constantly chirping, the other hardly made any noise at all.

After experiencing Poopsie, these two were a bit easier. I already had the format down. Water, Dogfood, Clean boxes and coffee stix for feeding with.

These two were a bit older then poopsie when they fell out and refused food for the first day. Cheepers (the smaller one) eventually started eating on the second day. Peep had me extremely worried when after the 3rd day no food was being taken by him.

We had to go off island to visit Sarah's relatives, we took the birds with us. On that trip, it was longer between feedings due to the drive. At one point, I fed Cheepers and as soon as I did, Peep reached into her mouth and grabbed all the food out.

That's when I realized how Peep was getting food. However, shortly after that, due to what I figure was the length of time between feedings, Peep finally grabbed food off the coffee stick. Phew! After that there was no problem with either one.

These two birds are probably the most well traveled unfledged birds. They went with us from Martha's Vineyard to Berlin, Ma (near Worcester). The next trip was from Martha's Vineyard to T.F. Green Airport in Warwick, RI. That trip was a nightmare due to no hotel rooms available all the way from New Bedford to Warwick. We drove for 5 or so hours back and forth and finally wound up at the airport parking garage at about 4am.

The birds then took a ride with Sarah and I back to Hyannis, where I bought some cages to keep them in.

They were too big for the boxes now. I figured this pair I would keep since they seemed entirely dependent on us. We also bought some bird seed hoping to find something better then dogfood to feed them.

We converted them over to bird seed by putting a bit on the dogfood. Eventually they refused dogfood and only ate the bird seed, which they apparently had preferences to since they knocked most of it on the bottom of the cage and only ate certain parts of the mix.

Shortly after converting them to seed, they stopped flying to us and ignored us completely.

That's when we decided to let them go. Sarah blew bubbles in celebration.

They flew out of the cage and up into the trees. We saw them about 4 hours later down the street in the trees on our way to the beach.

I still see them occasionaly in the backyard but they ignore me.

Want to hear Poopsie chirp?: bird3.wav

Further Information: Poopsie Info
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