Determining sex and taming budgies
I have two budgies. One is the standard yellow head with green body and black markings on feathers. The other is a white with a very faded light yellow/green and grey on the feathers and black eyes. It mostly looks white and grey. I will refer to them as green and white.
Green is very quiet and boring, sits on the perch a lot, doesn't move too much, rarely sings. Will follow white, but not too much activity. Usually stays in the same spot all day
White sings and play. White does acrobatics on the toys, squeezes through the ring toys, squawks loudly, climbs up and down on the cage bars, flys back and forth and green just sits and watches.
Occasionally white will take little cautious steps towards green and suddenly try to bite it. Green watches with beak open and lashes out if white gets to close. White will fly down to a lower perch then come back and do it again. If I put food in the cage, they both sit and look at it, but white is interested and will eventually get closer and closer until it can eat. Once eating, green will participate. I have had these birds since January 09. They must be about 6 months old. I can't tell if they're male or female. Both ceres look the same, a greyish very very slight pink.
Every day since I had them I sit and talk to them throughout the cage. If I put my finger up to the cage they run and huddle to the furthest side of the cage,scared and breathing hard as if a cat is after them. If I put my hand in the cage all hell breaks loose and they fly frantically trying to get away. I have been trying to finger tame them for 4 months now but no luck. I can't get near them at all. Other than that, they are happy and noisy in the cage. I have thought about letting them loose, picking them up with a towel and just talking to them repeatedly. Will this help?