R.I.P. Rikku

Rikku was doing badly this morning and fading fast, so we had to put her to sleep. Not sure what happened, might be head trauma or some sort of poisoning. The other birds all seem to be doing fine, but I’ll have to watch them closely for the next few days.
Always a bummer when a bird dies, but that’s budgies for you. Rikku was one of the two birds that I first got when I bought the new cage three years ago, she will be remembered fondly as the best climber to get to impossibly placed millet spray around the cage.