New Member, Flock Of 6

[Rose Quoll 0]

Hey there, new member here. =) I've owned two budgies for the last year and a half now, but I've recently added four more to my flock. I now have (I think!) three boys and three girls. I wanted to share some pictures, and see if I could get some help identifying the colour mutations of each. =) Each one is different and while I know the basics of some colours I'm not as well versed as some of you and I'd love to be able to tell people for sure what my budgies actually are.

 

First is Bluey (original, I know), one of my original two, and female. =)

 

Second is Greeny, the 2nd of my original pair, and also a hen. She's almost neon green on her breast and underbelly, with no blue in her tail at all:

 

And now, the new kids, first up is Murray, male. He's an all over amazing aquamarine blue, with interesting wing markings. I've included a picture of his flights so you can see that he has the aqua blue colour there as well:

 

 

 

 

Next is Enda, or 'Ed' for short. As far as I can tell, she's just a standard green budgie. =)

 

And now Bunny, male, and I know at least that he's a yellow-head, but past that I'm not sure. He's a really neat blue-ish grey colour with very light head stripes:

 

And, last but not least, Luna. I'm...lost as to whether he's ACTUALLY a boy as the cere colour gets my confused. =/ Any help there?

 

Thanks so much, and I'm glad to be here! =)

 

-Rose

[**KAZ** 0]

You have some lovely birds there. Welcome to our forum

[Sammi 0]

I will take a guess at your budgies mutations, somebody correct me if I'm wrong!

Bluey: grey opaline.

Greeny: light green opaline spangle.

Murray: light blue normal.

Ed: I'd say Yellowface 2 because of the kind of seafoam green tinge, normal.

Bunny: grey-green, maybe cinnamon?

You have some beautiful birds.

[Rose Quoll 0]

Thanks! I'm actually staring at Bunny now and thinking he could possibly be a cinnamon when I compare his markings to say, Murray's, which are really dark.

[*libby* 0]

bluey's a grey/mauve opaline... greeny is a light green spangle.... murray is a normal sky blue... the blue in the wings happens to all of them... ed in a normal green...bunny is a YF2 grey cinnamon wing opaline maybe YF1 not too sure:S.... and last but not least luna is a skyblue spangle recessive pied i think i have them all right but i'm sure someone will correct me if i'm wrong i like bunny the best:P he's gorgeous

Edited September 15, 2007 by *libby*

[Guest Phoebe]

Welcome to the forum!!! You have beautiful budgies and GREAT photography skills!

[Rose Quoll 0]

i like bunny the best:P he's gorgeous

When I saw Bunny at the store I work at, I HAD to have him. He's the whole reason I upgraded the flock. He, Murray and Ed were all together and I just took all three. Luna came the next day cause she/he's just beautiful. I love the white.

Welcome to the forum!!! You have beautiful budgies and GREAT photography skills!

Thanks! I just got my new camera last night (upgrade from my old SLR) and had to take pictures of them all. Since I had pictures, I figured it was a good time to join the forums and post.

[*Nerwen* 0]

Welcome Rose First up I'm stealing Bunny!

 

Bluey (original, I know) - yes it is an original name for a grey bird Grey Opaline as others have stated

 

 

Greeny - green spangle

 

Murray - sky blue normal, some get that tint of colour in the wings i have two hens that have it. Some have wondered if it means they are split for opaline.

 

Enda, or 'Ed' for short. As far as I can tell, she's just a standard green budgie. =) - I'd agree with that.

 

 

Bunny - I think he is a yellowface type 1 grey opaline. I can't see any signs of the yellow bleeding into the body area (to make a grey-green type colour) I can't see cinnamon signs in that shot but if the throat spots are brownoish as well as the wings then he would be.

 

 

Luna - do you know the age? he is over three months since there are no head bars (close to the cere) but that can still give time for the cere to change. If he is closer to the year I would go with male.

[Lady 0]

yep I'd say luna is a Skyblue recessive pied male

[Boris' Slave 0]

You have some beautiful budgies there.

[Feathers 0]

Hi Rose,

 

welcome to the BBC forum. You have a lovely flock there. The teal markings in wings usually indicate that the bird is carrying a violet factor, so I'd say that Murray is a sky violet.

 

 

Feathers.

[Norm 0]

Just to confirm, from my monitor Bunny looks like a Yellow Face 1 Opaline Cinnamon Grey…Nice bird. Welcome to the forum.

[Sailorwolf 0]

Bluey- grey opaline

Greeny- bright green spangle

Murray - Normal sky blue, possibly carrying violet and opaline

Edna is strange- she could be a green, but the yellow on her wings is quite light, so I would have to go with yellowface type 2 sky blue. Like Arkady in my signature.

Bunny - yellowface type 1 light grey, opaline, cinnamon or brown wing

Luna - recessive pied skyblue, possibly spangle and possibly carrying violet. I think Luna is a girl.

Edited September 16, 2007 by Sailorwolf

[birdluv 0]

Hi, welcome to our forums

you have a bunch of beautiful budgies.

[*Nerwen* 0]

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