On the days I clean out the bottom of their cage (it's a big aviary type), my six budgies all perch on the top perch in a row and make that crabby snippy noise at me!!

 

They are used to me putting seed and water and stuff in every day, and they are in my office with me. They are really friendly and will perch on my hands and come out.

 

But as soon as I pull out the old newspaper and start spreading out new paper it is ON. It is really funny, like the peanut gallery Like I'm touching their STUFF!!!

Haha, that is really funny. Our birds in the huge aviary hate it when mum starts to clean out the old seed on the ground that they haven't eaten, the quails run around nad try to hord it all in their logs and the budgies sit on the perch making the same kind of noise as your budgies. And yet my budgie Dalek is fine when I clean his cage out (he lives inside in my bedroom) he happily helps push the paper and then shreds in to the new sheets of paper.

That's really cute.

 

I love the way budgies are so tiny and sooo bossy! These ones get cranky when I work late in my office. Even with the cover on if I make too much noise rustling papers I get that cranky snippy noise at me.

Oh my gosh, if only Dalek did that. LOL He gets really snooty at me if I don't leave the music on during the night. He hates the silence, if i'm not in the room or if he can't hear us out in the kitchen, he either has to come out and sit on my shoulder, move his whole cage in to the lounge room or leave my radio on. It's rather awkward when your father yells at you for leaving the radio on and then having to explain 'It's for Dalek' xDD

 

But if the light is on, that's when he gets cranky. LOL If I want to read past his bed time, I either use a very small lamp or torch light. Or just go to a different room.