Snowy the budgie

[Philthy]

Bought him two weeks ago. He stuck out from his buddies as being quite an unusual colour. Think the variety is a Spangle with the back feathers reversed like they are - white with black edges. Please correct if wrong
His chest is grey in certain lights and more violet in others. I think he'll be quite handsome when he gets a bit older.

[Scarlet]

He is very handsome get talking to him and you'll have him nattering away in no time

[veggiechicken]

Hello Snowy and welcome to the Vine
Who's a pretty boy then?

[Nannysally99]

When I was a little girl my Grandads friend bred budgies. For my birthday he took me to pick an egg, wrote my name on it and when it hatched it would be mine.
Well, it turned out to be the most lovely shades of violet and grey - Snowy just brought back that memory from over 50 years ago.
Thank you. Lovely pics

[gardening_gal]

Aw bless. We had one that Mum named 'Georgie Boy', it said it's name over and over and over and over....well you get the idea.

He looks like a very handsome fellow.

[Florence Fennel]

Sweetie Tweetie

[Martin H]

Handsome chap. Reminds me of one we had when I was a boy, called Smokey. We never got Smokey to talk, he would just sit there chirruping quietly with the occasional loud chirp of a house sparrow thrown in.

Happy days!

[Ms-T]

He is a handsome boy.

[Small pumpkin]

He is beautiful

[JanieB]

He is beautiful. Welcome Snowy.

[Philthy]

I am rather pleased with him. He's not confident enough to chatter away to himself yet or play much with his toys, but he is responding to whistles and loves his friend that lives in the mirror! I think he'll be quick to tame as well.
I had budgies as a kid and growing up, finally bringing the cycle to a close a couple of years ago after the last one died. Though after 30 odd years of budgie noise the quiet felt unnatural, so it was only a matter of time

[Nicos]

This has brought back memories of my grandmother's budgie Joey....and the one before that- called Joey....and the one before that- again called Joey....
Infact she had had a budgie since by pa was a nipper, and guess what they had all been called?....yup....
Joey!

Always blue and male.

Snowy is a beautiful colour! Hope he brings you years of pleasure

[Verinda]

He's beautiful. We have a blue budgie called Merlin, he turned up on our roof six years ago, no one locally had lost a budgie so we kept him. He's such a character, budgies are great company I wish you many happy years with Snowy

[veggiechicken]

As kids we used to have a budgie, that lived in a cage on top of the wireless (a big old wooden thing with a dial for stations like Luxembourg).
Billy was the first one, he was green, and used to fly around the living room. One day, Mum made one of her iced sponge cakes and left it to harden off on the dining table. Billy walked over the icing, leaving a trail of footprints and little black and white droppings that we kids called liquorice allsorts.
Poor Billy would have little ?heart attacks and fall of his perch, claws in the air. A drop of medicinal brandy on a matchstick seemed to bring him round!
Bobby came next, he was blue and liked to chatter away whenever I "played" the piano. Probably shouting "Wrong note!". Bobby developed a lump below his beak and couldn't swallow properly so Mum, put him in a shoebox on the back of her bike, and pedaled halfway across the city to the PDSA, and pedaled home again , Bobby had an operation to remove the lump, was stitched and returned to Mum in his shoebox. Sadly, after another epic cycle ride, he croaked it. Mum was exhausted too, after all that pedalling on her old boneshaker.

Thanks Philthy and Snowy, for bringing back all these childhood memories

[jackarmy]

He is a stunner
My lad had a couple of budgies a few years back, named them Bud and Gu ( Gu being the welsh word for grandma)

cute i thought .

Radio Luxembourg vc, now theres a blast from the past.