unit 1 About two weeks before Christmas of 2014 my wife bought me an early Christmas present. It was a beautiful three-month-old cockatiel( 鸡尾鹦鹉 ). I had always 1 for a bird but as my wife had objected to the very idea of getting one, I was really 2 when she brought her home. I immediately fell in love with her and named her Bleng. From the beginning I was 3 by the owner of the pet shop not to put a 4 in her cage, as she would think that the reflection was another bird. This could cause Bleng to become 5 as the reflection wouldn’t react to her. 6 , my little Bleng 7 reflective surfaces around the house all on her own: in the kitchen, against the refrigerator, etc, She spread her wings out slightly every time she 8 her reflection and she spent a lot of time around these 9 . But it wasn’t until last July when we bought a mirrored bedside table for my mother-in-law’s room, that things really became 10 . Bleng 11 spending time around this bedside table and around her new “ 12 “! One day, my mother-in-law went to her room and noticed a real 13 . Seeds were scattered all around the bedside table. She 14 Bleng running to her cage, which was in another room, and 15 carrying seeds to the bedside table and setting them down on the 16 . Bleng had noticed that her reflection 17 went to the seed bowl to eat, 18 she brought the seeds over to her “friend!” We had always known that Bleng was a 19 creature, but it was at that moment that we all learned just how 20 her heart really was!