Elly
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what fine birds Splat to my novice eye, they are lovely, I absolutely love the greys.
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very lovely babies, Daryl
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Kaz is right budgies are very easy to sex once they are at a mature age like yours.
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Stunning birds they are absolutely gorgeous, I love this shot you should enter into the Budgie of the Month Contest for this month.
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Yes, the one I believe had a dark brown cere and then the other one is simple to see. I agree both females.
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excellent pictures Cathy, I see fall is coming your way too
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beautifu, I love his spiky head
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too cute, great photo for budgie of the month
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Congratulations to Neville, what a wonderful photo you submited :-) Please let us know a little more about this bird. It was a close vote this month and there were SO many good pictures.
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Did you not to a quaratine as suggested? How old are both your birds?
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Yes, he is just playing.
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It is once again time to vote for BBC Budgie of the Month!! So many cute pictures were entered this month. Voting will last 3 days, you are allowed to pick more then 1 choice!! Good luck everyone... Please don't leave comments or questions here on this post they will be deleted.
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Put in your best entry for Budgie of the Month. Every one has until the end of each month (U.S. Time EST) to enter a picture. Members vote at the beginning of the month to chose who will be the winner. One picture per member per month. Please remember to keep to the board rules of maximum, pictures should not exceed 480x640 AND links will not be accepted ONLY images. If this is not met then you picture will not be accepted (notification of non acceptance is not guaranteed). Any post you make to this thread will not show up so please do not repost. Do not post questions on this thread if you have a question you can either PM me or post in the Competition Area, thank you. Good luck to all that enter. Winners are recognized for the whole month and a Budgie of the Month Picture (example below) is is added to their signature line and it is removed after the month is over and is added to the next winners signature line. Click HERE to see all the different emblems that are used. They have been created by our own BBC members and we appreciate their help. created by mysixbabies Also note that all monthly winning pictures will be automatically added to the Budgie of the Year. To check out "2008 Budgie of the Year" CLICK HERE and feel free to congratulate them. Important Information: if you are the Budgie of the Month and are entered in the Budgie of the Year your original photo most stay up and not be moved, deleted, or link broken, this is the only way we can verifiy that that photo was the winner, if you decide to move, delete the photo your photo is disqualified from the Budgie of the Year Competition. Interested in our Monthly 2009 Winners? CLICK HERE and feel free to look, this is a readme only post, to congratulate the winner feel free to click on the CLICK HERE to Congratulate Link in this thread under the photo. Read here on how to post pictures within guide regulation Photo Regulations/How to Post TIPS on taking good pictures that WIN Make sure you have good lighting, the best is in the daylight without a flash Try and take your budgie's picture without the bar cages, many camera's will let you zoom in and you can put the lense between the space If it is a close-up use your macro setting (symbolized on some camera's by a flower) and then press the shutter button 1/2 way and let it focus If the picture is blurry check your setting and try again Make sure you resize your pictures to message board size (640x480) too small of pictures are hard to see
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do you have a photo of your new budgie? It really depends if you want to go with a theme? If you google pet names or even baby names you will find them in A-Z order along with meanings, I bet that will help you out a lot.
Welcome. THere is tons of information on our site along with awesome members with excellent advice. You said, you bought a new bird yesterday? Do you have this new bird seperated from the existing bird? Meaning in a different cage and a different room? It is very important to do a 30 day quaratine when you bring in new birds into your existing flock or bird, we have information on why and articles in our Health Section and in our FAQ's. If you did quarantine that is awesome if not I would start today. As for breeding we have a wonderful section on breeding and members who know the ins and outs so I would focus on learning about breeding the pitfalls and the positives before you get started along with making sure the 2 birds you have are of correct breeding age. Again, much of this information is found in our FAQ section. Again, welcome.
I mentioned that too RIP, that unless it was a hen it could not be a cinnamon . I think waiting it out watching this bird mature if it is a hen would be best. Beautiful birds.
I have no problem with being corrected Elly when I am wrong, but you have misinterpreted what I typed here. I said there is no way this bird is a clearwing as the cheek patches are light. If you read this correctly, I am saying it is NOT a clearwing as clearwings have violet cheek patches. And vice versa, I apologize for not reading it correctly.
Here are the standards for clearwings http://forums.budgiebreeders.asn.au/faqs/i...&artlang=en Note that the Clear Wings has violet cheek patches, dark blue tail feathers and full body colour. A Spangle with no markings on the wings can be mistaken with a Clear Wing, but the latter differ in cheek patches and tail feathers. As the non Australian Clear Wings has markings on the wings to some extent, they can be mistaken with Grey Wings, but still - note the cheek patches, tail feathers and the body colour. I am not sure Dave where you got clearwings cheek patches are light? Here are pics of all 3 different dilution mutations http://www.budgieplace.com/c_dilution.html Renee, from my reading greywing and clearwing are co-dominant neither is dominant over the other and together they will produce a Full Body Greywing (which you may have known but throwing it out there for others) If this chick was produced from 2 clearwing parents, then it could only be a clearwing, if the markings look brownish then it probably is a cinnamon and would have to be a hen hence the father would be carrying the cinnamon gene. Is it a hen? I can't tell from the picture very well.
The first 2 still look fuzzy and the last one you can see the markings but not clear enough to say yes it is cinnamon. Just my opinion though.
and macro (the flower) setting and hold it down until it completely focuses I assume the bird doesn't have any throat spots?
What do you consider screeching, I can't imagine he does this all day long there are different types of budgie noises and your misinterpreting them as all screeching. Male budgies are very vocal in play and can get loud. Would you mind getting a video and uploading it here so we can see what type of behavior he is displaying. Merlin doesn't screech very much as a sole budgie but if he does I simply cover him up if he doesn't quiet down. If your bird is screeching first thing in the morning do you have a dark enough cover on him? Most them of them won't wake up fully until they are covered. You have received good advice but I would still like to see a video of his behavior. Budgies have many different sounds.