High hopes for new breeders...

opaline turquoisine hen and creamino (par blue ino) scarlet hen

red fronted yellow opaline male turquoisine

aqua male turquoisine (may be single factor violet)

rosey bourkes

white face pink bourkes

pink and rosey bourkes

red front yellow turquoisine male

?opaline red bellied/front yellow turquoisine hen and rosey bourke hen

bunch of bourkes

New and old babies...

It has been ridiculously hot this summer in TX - >100 deg F for a month now without a bit of rain.  AC has to be kept on all day just to keep the temperature in the green house at a reasonable 87 deg in the lower cages and toasty 94 deg higher up.  Most of the birds are resting in this heat, but some do not seem to mind.

breeding pair with normal male scarlet and lutino hen

new babies of the normal x lutino pair

older fully weaned babies from Coral and Blush who are resting now

single red bellied yellow male turquoisine baby from earlier this year

 

My new breeders!

Lutino scarlet chested hen and single factor violet white fronted blue male

Summer progress

white fronted blue splendid male

A sad day - I lost one of my white fronted blue splendid parakeet.  He was only 1 year old and just got all his adult feathers.  He was also split to lutino, and I had high hopes to breed him in the next season.  It's always sad to lose such a sweet beautiful bird.

normal splendid male

On a brighter note, my new normal mature male splendid was just what my lutino hen needed.  They already have 2 eggs in the nest.

splendid baby

Scarlet and Red has another only child.  This will be their last clutch this round.

Coral and Blush's 4 babies are weaned - I'm keeping a close eye just to make sure everyone is fully weaned and eating well.

More pictures...

Forbes parrot finch male

pearl headed amadine

melanistic male gouldian

dilute fawn society

owl finch

St. Helena hen

St. Helena male

Splendid male

red headed normal gouldian male

Bird photos

Playing with my friend's easily made photobox...

white java finch

white java finch - male

my male pintail whydah

blue faced parrot finch

blue faced parrot finch

red factor canary hen

black headed pastel gouldian male

orange headed lavender breasted double factor yellow gouldian male

orange headed white breasted single factor yellow gouldian male

grey pearl society

black headed purple breasted normal gouldian male

this rebel refused to get on the perch - blacked headed dilute male gouldian

 

Grasskeet babies

The rosie bourkes are still having infertile eggs - perhaps the pair is too young?  The very first turquoisine baby to hatch is a red bellied yellow male.  New scarlet babies are also here.

baby turquoisine with mom above

4 new scarlet chested babies - 1 hiding behind the others