If you've visited this page before, click REFRESH or RELOAD on your browser once to make sure you're seeing the latest info. This is one of the cages in our office...
If the live picture doesn't update every few seconds (it only seems to work with IE), click HERE to go to the picture itself. Then click REFRESH or RELOAD every few seconds to update it when the picture comes up. Peep's Chronicals Peep is our yellow parakeet, who laid eggs in a nest she made out of an old toner cartridge box on a shelf in our office. Our parakeets fly around our office all day, often dive-bombing employees or visitors... flying past within an inch of their head! You'll even feel the tip of their wing hitting your face. They sometimes zoom around our office in a flock, but they tend to stay out of our warehouse. Luckily, they've found places to land where it doesn't make much of a mess in our office. They seem to be smart enough to stay away from the door. Our company is a wholesale distributor of telephone equipment in the Chicago area. Below are pictures from Peep's second batch of eggs. The first of the second batch was laid on May 8th, 2001. She laid a total of 4 eggs. Only one of the four hatched. Donna named it June Bug, since it hatched on June 1st.
Here is a picture of 12 day old June Bug trying to stand up.
A picture of 13 day old June Bug in Donna's hands. Here are 3 pictures from right after June Bug's birth, you can
really see how much a bird grows in 13 days...
Green, Blue and Peep sitting on Donna's Pink Cadillac. Peep chewed the hole you see in the pictures below in an old toner cartridge box sitting 8' up on a shelf in our office, and proceeded to make a nest. We took the stuff out of the box, and cut holes in the side to fit the front of two 900mhz Wireless Infrared Cameras (it's actually very dark inside the box). The cameras face each other. Since Peep likes to sit with her tail feathers over the lens of the rear camera, we put two cameras in the box and the picture you're seeing is probably from the one under the front entrance hole in the nest. Since the box was cardboard, it was getting chewed to the point where she didn't like it anymore. She started trying to get into the boxes of merchandise in our warehouse - which we had to stop! We drilled a hole in a piece of plywood, and taped that and a few more pieces of plywood around the box (including the bottom since she was chewing through that too!). You can see the shredded cardboard etc. laying inside the box. After Peep's babies were on their own, it seems that Peep wanted to make another nest. She started making holes in the ceiling tiles in our office. She would spend a day or so, there'd be a 2" hole in the tile, and she'd be up in the ceiling for a while. We replaced the tiles with plastic lenses for lights, which seemed to make her mad. She proceeded to make a bunch of holes in the ceiling. Donna and I were going to clip her wings so she couldn't make it up to the ceiling, but she got out of my hands as I held her in the towel. We were about to try it again the next day, when Chuck suggested that we give her another toner box - so we did. We cut a little starter hole in it, right where the old one was, and she seems to be quite happy in her new nest. Click on any of the pictures below to see a bigger version
Some pictures from the previous batch of eggs... The first baby hatched on 2/19/01, and the second one on 2/21/01. We named the first one Georgette, since it was the first and it was born on President's Day (and is a female which we found out later). George is the smaller one. When the other four eggs didn't hatch, we took them out of the box. Georgette flew out of the nest box on 3/22/01, so we put them both in the regular cage, and took the nest box away. Boy, it really went by fast! This was really fun, and everyone in our office enjoyed the whole thing. Even delivery people would check the TV when they came in the office to see how Peep's babies were doing.
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