okay, feel free to tell me if I am completely off base... But I read somewhere that birds/budgies will see being "Higher" puts them above the other birds/people and that you shouldn't have your birds perch above your head. That their eye level should always be equal or lesser than yours.

 

Have you guys heard of anything like that before? Is it something we should watch out for?

 

The reason I ask, is that little Amadeus has found a lovely spot to sit up on our light fitting, he absolutely loves it up there and will sit up there chattering away. Fall asleep up there and generally when out of the cage, that is where he ends up. He does play around with us a lot, but always gravitates back up there. I've been kind of using it as a training when hubby isn't home - Telling him "No" when he goes up there, "Step up" on my finger, popping him back down with me. Then if he goes up there three times I pop him back in his cage. Hubby though keeps saying let him do what he wants to do, he's happy so let it be... so now when it's just me he gets down, but when hubby is home he pretty much jumps on a head then flies up to the light fitting and chirps at us or falls asleep.

 

So.... vote?

Is there anything bad about him staying up there? or is it okay?

When mine was little, he would always head up to sit on the chandelier. They feel safer up there, away from potential predators. It wasn't a big issue with us, except that the chandelier is so high, I'd have to get a ladder and turn off all the lights to get him down when it was time to go to bed. He really wanted to roost up there for the night. Eventually he grew out of it, and now he heads off to bed by himself as the sun goes down.

 

It's up to you really. If you don't want him up there all the time, train him the way you are doing to stay away.