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I just thought I would share this with you since it's a new silly habit that Rosie has.. She picked this up last weekend when it was just the two of us here and I had her with me the entire day while I was cleaning house she did not leave my shoulder not once. SO anyway.... Now when I have the kitchen sink water running no matter what it's for she will carefully walk down my arm and sit on my hand and take drinks of water from the running fawcet. If she gets down to my hand and the water is running really hard she will walk back up my hand but if I slow it down to a slow stream (which I now do when shes walking down my arm) she loves to tilt her little head to the side and take 3 or 4 drinks of water and then she will walk back up my arm.. I know the dangers of hot water and I am very careful if I am working with hot water she must stay on my shoulder or I will put her down on the table behind me or the counter. But it is so cute..

Another thing is we have a tower fan in the living room that we sit on a end table. Rosie loves to sit on the arm of the couch directly in front of the fan and just let the fan blow in her little face. Today we ran to Sonic to get shakes and when we came back I heard her calling from an area other than her house so I walk in the living room and shes sitting on the arm of the couch all happy letting the fan blow in her face.. Silly girl I guess she went and hung out there while we were gone.. I love her!!!

Many years ago, I had a budgie who would also walk down my arm to the water running from the kitchen sink faucet. But, he would proceed to take a bath in my cupped hands. Then when he had had enough he would walk back up to my shoulder.

First off Hi everyone just joined these boards. My new tiel has started doing that also. I have been trying to introduce him to baths with a bit of warm water in the bathroom sink, and let the water dribble very slowly. I keep my hand under it at all times to check temp and genlty splash him a little. He will sit in the sink a little and drink the water. This morning when I was rinsing my coffeepot he ran down my arm to see the running water. Aw so cute I took him into the bathroom to play in the sink a bit. He is still pretty quiet and looks kinda confused once I put him in there but he seems to want to do it. My one concern is he sneezes a bit after I take him out, like he got water in his nose. he doesnt normally sneeze.

He very well may have gotten water in his nose!! Welcome to bird owning!!

I would be careful about sinks. In addition to the hot water danger, if a bird is habituated to running over to get a drink, they may fly over to jump in when you are trying to do dishes or clean (chemical danger.)

I have been raised that even the cleanest looking sink has thousands of bacteria, so I choose not to allow my birds in them. I also train my birds that the kitchen is off limits. If they fly in, they go directly back to an approved area. After enough times being removed, they stay out.

Button will do the same (run down my arm while I am doing dishes)so I will fill her bathing dish with water so she can splash in that

Thats one thing about this little girl. She is so picky about taking her bath. She won't do it in a dish and she only wants to be sprayed when she wants to. If I try to spray her when she don't "ask" to be sprayed forget it she will run away from me like if I am a monster or something.. Silly baby

Oh my birds are fussy about their baths as well. The budgies will only bath in these tiny green cups. They will squish themselves in these tiny little cups!
The tiels will bath in these plastic dishes (that were the trays from a microwaveable TV dinner!!!) Button will run over to me when she sees me fill these plastic trays up.