Goodbye Streusel

It is a sad day in our house today. We lost our little budgie, Streusel. I noticed that she wasn't feeling well yesterday because she wasn't chirping like crazy at the birds outside. She was also spitting up her seeds a bit. I hoped that she'd get over it but at 12:30 this morning I found her lying on the bottom of her cage panting. A few minutes later she was gone. I was so sad but I had to take care of her right away. Now she is with Roger and I hope she's happy there.
It is so funny how little creatures can take our hearts with us when they go. They become so much a part of our lives. She was a cranky hen a lot of the time but she was also so cute when she'd get excited about the birds outside. I have a link here to a movie of her in action that I took last year. I'm glad I did that. We had an open cage policy with her and she respected that. She always stayed close to her cage and her favorite spot was right on top, so that she could see everything. She never liked to be out of sight of her cage and if she happened to be riding on my shoulder, she'd usually fly back home if she couldn't see it. She loved the window in the kitchen though because she could see the other birds as well as hearing them.
Christmas was always very disruptive to her because she would usually get moved out of the way so that we could have a Christmas Tree. She would relax again once the tree was gone.
Streusel was such a good little bird and we are going to miss her very much.
I guess you could call this post a memorial to a little bird who meant a lot to us. Good bye Streusel, we'll miss you.