Happy Bird Place Finch and Grasskeet Blog

All of the babies have fledged and the older ones are largely weaned, but unfortunately I had to remove the 2 youngest babies from the clutc...

I have just learned that the bars on the feathers of my baby yellow gouldian mentioned in yesterday's posting are most likely stress bar...

When baby grasskeets fledge, they are often bad flyers.  They often flap and stubble around, but somehow rarely manage to actually hurt them...

New grasskeet babies are fledging.  Younger babies are still in the nest, but 4 babies between the 2 clutches are out.  Not flying terribly ...

The mother of the clutch of three taking a look before leaving the nest box. A male forbes parrot finch.  He recently lost his mate.  I...

Here are the clutch of 5.  Getting their colorful feathers already.  Here's the proud father and the mother.

The splendids are growing well.  There was a brief glitch in the clutch of 3 (the 4th egg was indeed dead in the shell - not sure of cause a...