Old guy on his own buys a budgie so he can have a bit of company in the flat.
Wakes up first morning noticing the bird looking a bit sad, so nips to the pet shop and buys a mirror for the cage. That'll brighten him up thinks the bloke.
Following morning no noticeable change, so he gets one of those plastic budgies to clip to the rung in the hope the thing will think it's got a mate and converse with it,
Miserable as ever the next day, off to the pet shop and gets one of those little toys with weights in the bottom that bounce back when pecked.
Goes on for days this, getting toys for the thing with absolutely no change.
One morning, gets up and the budgie is lying dead alongside something pecked into the sandpaper in the cage bottom.........SEED.