Your dog and budgie are simply joyful. As we lose over 5 minutes of daylight each 24 hours, seeing the strong springtime sunlight cheers my heart! In my corner of the world (Anchorage Alaska) it is beautiful fall weather, the mountain colors are changing, the weather is cool, and the bears are foraging for winter...as a matter of fact, while he was hiking, my dad was charged this week by a female grizzly bear and she was about 5 feet away when he managed to spray her with pepper spray. Thank GOODNESS she turned and ran away after that!