My Birdies!

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I have a few canaries and a pair of zebra finches down the garden, and here are a few photos of them all (those of the zebra finches are bad quality, I must admit! :lol: ) !

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This is Kai, one of my male canaries, trying to rip up something to make a nest with!

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And this is Kenny! This shot was really just pure luck! :lol:

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A pretty bad shot of both my Zebra Finches (named Jerry and Bree) and their nest! Apparently my white female has laid 3 eggs so far!

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Names from left to right, starting at the top perch:
Jerry, Custard, Kai, Sachi, Kenny, Mel.

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My best picture of little Bree :wub:

And, although they aren't actually my birdies, they are rather cute..
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They're lovely, such bright colours :)
And they are cute :D
 
Love your canaries ! I had a lovely pair an orange male called Lee (the original male was called Oak and Lee was baught as a supposied female so together they where Oak - lee) and a female white with (what I call sparrow) brown patches. They where happily breeding until a childrens python found it's way into my aviary and ate both of them.
I like zebra finches and am really taken by the black cheeked, but alas zebra finches are like the guppies of bird world, very quick at churning out young. I love double bar finches but rather than keep them in my mixed flock of finches I enjoy having the local double bars visit my bird feeder.
I would dearly love to get another pair of canaries but as I now have a Cuban finch pair (and they apparently don't tolerate any other birds displaying yellow), I am holding off on any more.

My current avairy stock is 2 male 1 female red cheeked cordon bleus (the other female died suddenly so have to track down another 1), 1 pr Cuban finches, 5 Gouldian finches, 1 pr red stars (always breeding), 1 male 2 female ruddies (the extra female was a chick I accidentally left with the parents to long and now can't tell apart from its mum), 1 pr Jaracini finches, 1pr St helena's, 2 male strawberry finches (that I am trying to get females for) and 1 male and 2 female king quail that just hatched another clutch of eggs. And then there is the flock of cockatiels which I am letting die out with old age as I want to get more finches, and Australian grass parrots.

Below a pic of the completed first bay of my 3 bay aviary with one of our dogs Leah showing scale.
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The pink bird you can just make out is Burke my male Roas bourke parrot, the avairy is now nicely planted with a small tea tree, grasses, marigolds, rosemary, chili bush and mint. The chili and the mint has to be kept caged as the finches eat them down to stumps. The pic doesn't really show the depth of the cage, it goes back 4m and the height is 2m from the steel framed base to the roof.
I'll have to get some pic's of my completed avairy, but just have never got around to it.
 
They're lovely, such bright colours :)
And they are cute :D

Ahaa, thank youu! :)

Love your canaries ! I had a lovely pair an orange male called Lee (the original male was called Oak and Lee was baught as a supposied female so together they where Oak - lee) and a female white with (what I call sparrow) brown patches. They where happily breeding until a childrens python found it's way into my aviary and ate both of them.
I like zebra finches and am really taken by the black cheeked, but alas zebra finches are like the guppies of bird world, very quick at churning out young. I love double bar finches but rather than keep them in my mixed flock of finches I enjoy having the local double bars visit my bird feeder.
I would dearly love to get another pair of canaries but as I now have a Cuban finch pair (and they apparently don't tolerate any other birds displaying yellow), I am holding off on any more.

My current avairy stock is 2 male 1 female red cheeked cordon bleus (the other female died suddenly so have to track down another 1), 1 pr Cuban finches, 5 Gouldian finches, 1 pr red stars (always breeding), 1 male 2 female ruddies (the extra female was a chick I accidentally left with the parents to long and now can't tell apart from its mum), 1 pr Jaracini finches, 1pr St helena's, 2 male strawberry finches (that I am trying to get females for) and 1 male and 2 female king quail that just hatched another clutch of eggs. And then there is the flock of cockatiels which I am letting die out with old age as I want to get more finches, and Australian grass parrots.

Below a pic of the completed first bay of my 3 bay aviary with one of our dogs Leah showing scale.
P1010307.jpg


The pink bird you can just make out is Burke my male Roas bourke parrot, the avairy is now nicely planted with a small tea tree, grasses, marigolds, rosemary, chili bush and mint. The chili and the mint has to be kept caged as the finches eat them down to stumps. The pic doesn't really show the depth of the cage, it goes back 4m and the height is 2m from the steel framed base to the roof.
I'll have to get some pic's of my completed avairy, but just have never got around to it.

Awwh, sorry to hear about your canaries!
Your other birds are very pretty though! I would love to see a shot of the whole avairy if you have time to get one :)
 

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