She is one of two flock members wearing a leg band, indicating that she was caught in her native South America. I have gotten to know Olive this year as I have watched her at a neighbor's bird feeder. I have never seen her eat upright. She insists on hanging by one toe upside down at the top of the feeder, bickering and munching simultaneously. Heaven help the parrot who tries to move her from her perch throne.
Olive never runs from a good healthy squabble.
She is the mate of Pushkin , who took her from Gibson . Probably the guys thought the fight was theirs, but I suspect Olive was the real instigator, enjoying herself immensely by egging them on. Her offspring come in two varieties. Fanny and Wendel l are almost all green, with red spotting on the head. But 1999's babies, Babu and Balachandran , have broad rose bands above their noses.