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

Feels like spring,,,

After a historic snow/ice storm, the weather is finally feeling like spring.  Hopefully the birds are feeling frisky as well...

Sweet Pea loves snow

snow flakes on the fence

wild birds were pecking at the stray seeds

Lucky exploring the snow

Mao would rather stay inside and be warm

shaft tails: creaminos flanking my "cream" baby

shaft tails: creamino, fawn, and cream

shaft tails: creamino, fawn, cream

red factor canary baby - napping in my hand

Lucky enjoying a nap

pearl society babies

dilute fawn pearl baby

 

Fledgling and misc. pictures

Rose

Cosmos

Rose

Mums

Mock Orange

Cosmos

Mums

Couldn't resist posting some fall flowers.

 Another nest of gouldians and other eggs fostered to societies.  These are more babies from the pair who are very light sitters.  I finally separated the pair and paired them with other partners to see if incompatibility is the reason for such unenthusiastic parenting.

 Close-up shows a hatching egg, so there soon should be 2 baby gouldians.

 Here are a couple of older siblings of the hatching egg and the just hatched baby; these 2 just fledged yesterday.  One is dilute so is a boy, and the second one is yellow.

  Two more yellow siblings of the previously mentioned babies and fledglings - note everyone has a red leg band to keep parentage straight.  These two are fostered with different societies and have fledged for about a week now.  They've gotten very good at chasing down their foster parents demanding to be fed.  Their foster parents are the one raising the recently hatched baby and the just hatching egg.  Young society fledglings are being raised in the same cage.

 Here's another society baby, a pied fawn.  Society babies tend to be almost overly precocious and will fledge before they have all their feathers.

 Ken's new siblings.  Three fledged with 2 more still in the nest.

Here's dad feeding baby.

"cream" shaft tail hen

Creamino shaft tail male

a pair of red faced star finch with a male gold breast waxbill showing off his orange rump

red headed parrot finch, pair of gold breasts, and red faced star finch hen in the back

Blush stretching, male gold breast, and male red faced star

yellow tipped beak black headed purple breast green back gouldian male

 Everybody loves to bath,

male pintail whydah enjoying a splash

 One never gets the bathing facility to oneself for long.  The red-factor canary wants a turn.

 My new lutino scarlet chested grasskeet hen with her split to ino sons eating lunch.

 Close up of Scarlet.  I can get this close because this side is her bad eye.

 Another society fledgling who looks like it should have stayed in it's nest for a few more days - surprisingly good flyers though.