Does your cockatiel do this?

[ZemenickM]

My two tiels, run backwards really really fast ontop of the cage. They walk better going backwards then frontwards. Anyone elses tiels do this?

[Lady Kakata]

Bonnie 'moonwalks' (walks backwards) at the bottom of her cage. She does this because she's investigating the grate and how to try and get under it so she can get to the bottom of your cage. Are your 'tiels looking down when they do this, as though they're trying to figure out something?

[ZemenickM]

Sometimes they look down , and sometimes he or she just runs backwards for fun.

[Ashling]

That sounds really weird! Can you get it on video? I would love to see that.

[Lady Kakata]

I don't consider it weird as I knew what Bonnie was doing. I put in the grate to stop her laying (she's a layer) and when I first put it in, she looked at it sideways, as though she were puzzling it out. She could see the bottom of the cage, but she couldn't get there

It was great watching the little wheels turning XD She went up to the corner of the cage nearest me and looked down and to the side again, bobbing her head like it was a perception test, and she shuffled around on top of the grate, both fowards and backwards

She doesn't do it anymore from what I've witnessed, but if she does it and doesn't spot my phone I'll try and get a recording of it. I thought it was weird looking too as it doesn't seem as though a bird should be able to walk backwards but I was watching it

As long as your birds don't hurt themselves and don't show signs of fitting or anything like that, I'd consider it harmless, unless someone wants to correct me here

[ZemenickM]

Sure i can get in video.