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

 

First turquoisine baby!

Apollo and his new mate (an older red bellied hen, not the younger bird from an earlier post), whom I'm calling Sunnie has finally produced a baby - it'll be the very first turquoisine baby to be born to my aviary.  Very excited.  I thought Sunnie would never accept Apollo.  She lost her mate, and her owner could not find a male for her so put her up for sale.  She's about the same age as Apollo - going on 3 years old, so she was a lucky find since I haven't been able to find an age appropriate mate for Apollo since Sunny died.  Apollo was smitten immediately, but Sunnie did not like him at all.  I thought she wanted to breed when she stayed in the nestbox all the time, but I think that was just to hide from Apollo, lol.  Finally, she must have changed her mind.  She had 4 eggs, only 2 were fertile, with 1 DIS, so only 1 live baby, but both parents are doing a great job so far raising the little one.

turquoisine baby says: "I've fallen and I can't get up!"

turq baby just a few days old

scarlet chest baby - only child of this clutch from Red and Scarlet

 

Mini Update

I'm a bit behind on taking pictures.  Unfortunately molting season is always hard.  Juveniles and adults alike are more likely to get ill during this stressful time, so I'm trying to spend extra time observing to catch anyone who feels not well as early as possible to give treatment a better chance of succeeding.  Societies are still breeding.  Still trying to get purple grenadiers and forbes to breed successfully.  All gouldians are resting now, but letting shaft tails have a go.  Scarlet chests are breeding but having very high infant mortality and DIS.  Not exactly sure what is going on as babies are dying with full crops.  DIS may have something to do with the recent thunderstorms causing night fright.  Rosie bourke's first clutch were all infertile - hoping for another clutch.  Yellow red bellied turquoisines may finally have a baby - out of their first clutch, 2 infertile, 1 DIS, and hopefully 1 live baby since it was in the process of hatch at last check.  Plans for the summer will be to cut down on egg food so everyone will be lean and fit for the fall breeding season; although may still rotate some societies to breed.

Babies babies everywhere

new scarlet chested baby - a girl, I'm fairly sure

first blue capped cordon blue to fledge

creamino, dilute fawn, and chocolate society babies

green backed twinspot hen, male, and fawn owl hen

fawn owl hen

family of owls - 5 new fledgelings

daddy owl with 2 kids

cinnamon bourke

pintail whydah male back in nuptual colors

white java babies

Spring is here...

flowering almond

Spring is here and all of the sudden flowers are everywhere.  Breeding season for gouldians is ending, but societies, cordon blues, shaft tails, purple grenadiers, star finches, owls, parrot finches, and the grasskeets are still on going.  I'm always glad of new babies.

pied dilute star finch baby, just fledged

creamino shaft tail, and blue faced parrot finch

lutino bourke male

bowel of creamino shaft tails

lutino and white faced pink bourke males

white fronted blue scarlet chested grasskeet male

white java baby

red factor canary baby

blue scarlet pair and red fronted yellow turquoisine

pair of red fronted turquoisines

pair of blue scarlets

cherry blossoms

blue lilac

tulips

dove nest in a holly tree

New baby pictures

The normal scarlets are back in the nest.  Red and Scarlet has 5 fertile eggs.  Coral and Blush also have at least 5 eggs, not sure how many are fertile since Blush is sitting very tight.

Still having new species of finches raising babies - split to fawn owl male with normal hen pair has 5 fertile eggs, purple grenadier have laid eggs (fingers definitely crossed), a pair of red faced stars hatched 2 babies, various societies are raising babies, and the white javas have laid eggs again.  The sea green parrot finch pair have been very prolific.  They've already fledged 7 babies from 2 clutches already.  The red faced parrot finch pair have finally finished molting - seems to be interested in the nests now.  The forbes pair isn't having great luck - they chose a nest right next to the stars and are being chased away often.  I will let them try again since the stars are busy feeding their babies, but may have to give them their own flight cage to breed in.

baby gouldian - he's an only child due to having a first time father

newly fledged sea green RH parrot finches

fawn society finch babies

pied dilute fawn society finches

chestnut pearl society finch