So we got another budgie that we noticed was very playful. S/he kept climbing through these toy rings and would climb upside down from the ceiling of the cage. Very chatty too. We decided to get him/her as we liked this playful attitude. I couldn't see any white at all on the cere when we were at the store (we were there for almost 30 minutes watching them), and we were hoping for a boy buddy to eventually put with our other male. Now that we're home I'm seeing an almost faint white around the nostrils. I'm thinking of throwing in the towel when it comes to picking out a young male (or forking over money to fly one of you up here to pick out a male for me ). I'm hazarding a guess that this budgie is a skyblue clearflight pied? There is also the beginning of iris rings that are visible if you look closely.

 

 

 

Boy

Agree Boy

agree

ditto

 

and based on this photo

 

may have the beginnings of scalyface

Phew! I'm not completely incompetent then We dosed him with ivermectin before we even put him in the cage.

Here are some more pics we took of him in daylight.

 

 

We taped him when we first got him home. He was good enough to sit on my finger, but the poor thing was still stressed out.