Bosco is bored because she's in the hospital cage: 10 doses down, 10 to go.

She had been spending a lot of time eating, puffed up, and then I actually saw her poop a bloody poop. Not the worst bloody poop I've ever seen, but blood is blood. So she's in the hospital cage, on antibiotics. According to the article "Poopology 101," (Birdtalk magazine, August 2003), blood in poops may or may not be caused by something that antibiotics can treat. But I had the medicine on hand, and with such a small bird, there aren't many options for treatment. She's warmer in the hospital cage, and has more opportunity to rest, so it can't hurt.

Except for being bored, of course. She's been sedentary compared to flighty Frank or Goober, who likes to hang onto walls. She also doesn't seem as bothered by the big perches in the hospital cage as Goober was — I sanded the cage and added a platform, but so far have left the big perches.

So far, so good.

(This photo is not from the hospital cage.)