[sandiemac]

are they screeching when you're in the house with them and they KNOW it???? Budgies (and most hookbills) are "flock birds" and see humans as members of their flock and will call (ie screech) to their flock members to keep in contact....especially when they leave the room. Music can help with entertaining them when you're not home but flock calling will not go away. My Quaker (who only uses her cage to eat in BTW) will leave her stand to hunt out me or my fiancee (her 2nd choice). We had to go as far as to install a shower perch to avoid CQUS (Crushed Quaker Underfoot Syndrome)