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welcome! I'm new here too. Your little pied baby is adorable!

I'm planning on chasing my tiels around w/ the camera later today to get better photos. If only there was a magic whistle in Tiel speak that meant "Sit still and look at me"

Sandy,

What you might want to do is place their food bowls high up in the cage.. i.e., high enough they can't get IN them, but still eat from them. My water dish/bowl is high up on the cage end, and I rarely ever have poop in it, unless I happen to move the cage where it's underneath one of the grapevine wreaths or the rope. It might be for sleeping, the perch(es) you have in the cage are not comfortable to the birdie's feet, hence sleeping with feet on the seed mix. Just a thought.........

Sam