I think I've mentioned that Goober has become quite tame around me. She sits calmly in a nest box even if I have the big door to the Finsterium wide open and all the other Finsters are flapping around like crazy. She flies down to the bottom of the cage even before I've finished putting new snacks in. Once she even pecked at my finger while I was giving the birds fresh water. So I took advantage of her familiarity by taking a photograph of her on the floor of the cage, door open. Sweet thing. You can click here to see a big version of the photo.

Goober has been experiencing her recurring ailment: she seems a bit lethargic, eats a lot, doesn't seem to process food well. Since nothing I've done in the past seems to directly correlate to her getting better, I'm not taking the drastic route of catching her to take her to the vet, or giving her a course of antibiotics. Instead, I'm putting milk thistle in the water dish in the evening, and calcium in the water a little more often than usual, and making sure she has plenty of tasty seeds to eat. She gave me a terrible scare this afternoon, though: She took a bath and got herself so wet she couldn't fly up to a perch. Poor wet rat! So I put the heat lamp on to help her dry out.