January 7, 2002
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For some time now, my wife and I have been noticing that on a regular basis, all of the water gets dumped out of the dispenser in our budgie cage. The dispenser didn’t appear to leaking and there is really only one correct way to mount the thing on the cage, so we were at a loss for an answer. Perhaps our two precocious budgerigars were filling up their water pistols during particular late night escapades. Hmmm. Or maybe the inherent exuberance found in the melopsittacus undulatus species simply got the best of them, right in the middle of a routine thirst-quenching session. Nope, that wasn’t it at all. Apparently, one of the birds tends to fall asleep on the perch right next to the dispenser. His feathers dip into the open tray of water and then act as a wick, thus siphoning all of the water out of said dispenser, across the feathers, most likely down his leg, and onto the floor of the cage. Ah, the wonders of practical fluid mechanics in action.
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