Originally Posted by cheeky_monkey

Our budgies learnt to fly the cage and go in each night for food and sleep. They used to put themselves to bed. They learnt this from one of our older budgies who passed the routine onto them. Sadly the budgie (Billy) who founded this idea died of a broken heart three weeks after his mate died. He just willed himself to die and was a tragic scene to watch. Sorry for lowering the mood perhaps but the monkey story reminded me of what our Billy started in our house.