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. We're not sure which of our male birds is the father (Blue, Green or Sky). Peep's three babies are all out flying around our office now.

Georgette, Peep's daughter born in February '01, has just laid her second batch of eggs.

She's in a wooden nest box, (that Peep would never go near), and Georgette has laid five eggs in the box.

As you can see in the live camera feed (above), the camera is in the top of the box. It's an interesting view.

Blue is the father of these babies, and he's been dutifully going into the nest box to feed Georgette (and to make more babies), and often sits right outside the box. While Peep would come out of her nest box to get fed by one of the other birds, or to get some food or water from the cage, Georgette seldom goes out of the box. Peep never let any other birds in her nest.

If both Blue and Georgette are in the nest, Georgette is the one with a patch of lighter feathers on the back of her head. You can't see the colors on the black and white camera.

All of 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.

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.

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	Sky and Green sitting on top of the wall where the "nest" was located. This wall divides our office and warehouse.			The Infrared Camera taped to the outside of the box, with the lens poking through a hole cut in the box. Some paper towels are stuffed around the camera to keep the birds from destroying it.
	This is the stack of used toner cartridges where Peep decided to make a nest.			Peep sitting on top of the wall in front of the nest, with Sky sitting on top of the nest. You can see the plywood pieces taped to the box.