yeah, he's as the stage of regurgitating seed for my thumb at the moment
only really gets amorous if you're wearing a glove

Aren't budgies great little things (BTW how did you know Bluey was a female)?
I told her once that she was a budgie, not a beaver, as she had pecked through one of the perches (which collapsed on her when she sat on it=One big screeching session apperently) and then there was the time my mother hung a stalk of millet seed from the top of the cage, went out and came back to find millet seed all over the vicinity of Bluey's cage and she always knew when the Lombard direct advert was coming on and never shut up when it was on.

Whats a thumb fight?

I've got two.

I don't think it's cruel to keep them in cages.

My two are in a 3 foot long cage, by two foot. Masses of room and I let them out for most of the day, then cover goes over at night when they sleep.

They're not as noisy as you think. They don't make a peep once I put the cover over as they go to bed.

There's lots of mess. Lots of feathers on the floor, and bird seed feet away from the actual cage.

My two babies have recently started sitting on the top of my computer and shitting down it. Also, sitting on my dvds and nibbling at them, as well as the curtain puller.

They can have their moments when they do make a lot of noise, but not at the times when you don't want them to and I can always put the cover over their cage.

Must I add, my budgies make the biggest mess with millet.

Budgies really are messy little birds. Bless 'em.

Here's some very recent pictures of Harry and Pamela:

http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/3056/bud1x.jpg
http://img858.imageshack.us/img858/3725/bud2.jpg
http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/9225/bud3g.jpg
http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/1671/bud4.jpg
http://img858.imageshack.us/img858/7089/bud6.jpg
http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/7411/bud7.jpg
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/9646/bud8.jpg

It's when they stand at the base of your thumb and you either hit their beak with your nail or if they are standing on your finger tap them with the pad. It's the latter that get's Beekle a little too excited

The use of the female pronoun 'her' in your text - but the behaviour gave it away first

Drat. I was going to post a video on YouTube last night. It's of Beekle on my dining room table. He picks up a pen and runs with it in his beak. Always funny watching a budgie run

For some reason he likes to do that. Pick pens up and carry them to the edge of the table. Then he drops them off and stands at the edge staring at them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyqxGIOYmIQ

Only just uploaded so might be a few minutes, yet

Edit:Yeah and the editing is naff but..meh. Watcha gonna do?

I'm exactly the same. I never considered having a budgie and hate seeing birds in cages but I took in my little hen as a 'rescue' budgie as she was being ill treated. She now rules the roost! I make sure she has 12 hrs sleep a night, wake her up to a birdsong CD, put her perches up in the living room (newspapers are my new 'carpet') and then she can fly in the room for the rest of the day. She's got loads of things to occupy her: natural perches in high places, lots of toys and a bath and I leave the TV on if I'm going out.

She's really happy, sings all day and is constantly flying on my head/ sitting on my shoulder, chomping away on willow branches/greens and playing on her toys.

I know it's not ideal for the little mite, but it's a lot better for her than the alternative life she would have had. Having said that, I would take on a budgie if it had been ill-treated but would not buy one myself as I don't really agree with the practice!

I had a budgie called Scoobie but it turned out that he was indeed a she. It was only in the last year of her life that we found out as she began to lay eggs. I don't think she was annoyed with her life, I think she was quite content. The cage got open at 6AM every morning and then closed at about half 7, just before dinner. As a youngster he liked to room about everywhere, the couch, the table, the TV stand, behind the TV, on top of the mirror, the top of his cage and play with a wind chime. As he got older he would just stick to the table, top of the cage and the wind chime.
He died on Monday, it was quite unexpected. I came in from school and then we buried him. It's strange to hear that wind chime chime because of the wind and not him.

Budgies are great. I have 2 myself. As soon as im home from work, they are out of their cage flying around having fun. If they are hungry they know where the food and water is. They are great pets and show alot of love, i shout out ones name and say step up and he flys over to my hand, do the same with the other and it comes over two. Now when im holding them both i drop one of my fingers quickly and it flys straight on to me again. I love my 2 budgies

I think budgies are great pets too.

I have kept budgies for most of my life, I have two males now which I've had for two and a half years. The cage door is open every day from breakfast time until the evening and they just come and go whenever they like. Any mess is minimal as they tend to land back on top of the cage or they like to play on a glass topped table nearby. Their door is usually shut during the evening as I discovered that they didn't come out at night, maybe because of the artificial light.

Budgies can sense when the sun is setting even indoors, and they call out quite a bit near this time to other budgies to get there asses home lol So they know its getting dark and its time for bed