Jasmine Takes A Bath

These days Jasmine takes a shower every morning - a proper shower in the bathroom, but that will be the topic of another post coming up soon. She occasionally also likes to take a bath.
Sometimes she splashes around in her water bowl, and even though this is far too small for her to fit into she can get herself and, most especially, her surrounds impressively wet. This is the signal that she wants a bath and to fill up her bathing bowl with water.

Jazzy's bathing bowl is a large stainless steel bowl which sits inside a metal ring in her cage. This bowl is available for $11.45 from 'The Bird Safe Store' and is called is called "The Stainless Steel Coop Cup, 64 oz".


She spreads her wings to get them wet, and flaps and turns to fit herself in the bowl somehow.





She tests the water with her beak...


puffs her feathers out in preparation to get wet...





...comes in at different angles...


...feet all the way in...








...and comes up the other side.
















Then she spreads herself, wings fully stretched out, over the bowl.




She twists and turns and manages to get her tail submerged.






She's all motion. It's a little difficult to figure out where her head is in this photo: but it's right up front with her beak against the edge of the rim of the bowl.



You can see she has managed to get her tail fairly wet.










After another tail immersion she clambers up the bars, tail feathers still spread out.
Jazzy is quite a blur of movement when she's taking a bath, but this gives an idea what it's like to see her splash around.



At the end she sits regrouping for a moment, taking stock of her state.



Most of the time Jazzy's 'swimming pool' isn't filled with water - instead, it's filled to the brim with toys, and it becomes what she calls her 'toy bowl'. Jazzy loves to sit on the edge of it, selecting foot toys. She plays there for hours every day, choosing one toy after another to chew on, submerge in her water bowl, toss into her pellet bowl, or simply drop to the bottom of the cage to see how it falls, and to hear the sound it makes.