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Hey you're right! Their facial features are very close, though Arkady is a gorgeous lime, while Gauguin is olive green...I guess Arkady's tint is the genuinely ancestral one...am I wrong? I'll take a look to the 'safe perches' section, though I'm afraid here in Italy is very difficult to find good wooden perches in stores... I gave a look to some picture posts and I must admit Australians have a natural talent to furnish budgies' houses...I love those wooden accessories!!!

I finally found someone fond of Tamara just like me! Many people seem to appreciate others mostly, particularly Dalì and Fragonard...Well, Dalì is my sweetheart, the only one who enjoys sitting on my hands, and I have a big crush on him...but Tamara is special. You can't see it form those pics but her wings have two white tones: the upper part resembles ivory, while the lower is really snow white... I love that 'run of the mill' expression and I'll have to write it down!!! Hey Sailorwolf! You caught Gauguin's peculiar expression!...I was just wondering if there was in the world another budgie with that same funny face...glad to hear from you...I'd love to see a picture of Arkady!!! But I really appreciated that suggestion about perches...because I bought those for that very reason. They are not made of hard, stiff plastic (like those I used to have before) but it's a strange material which is kinda flexible, just like natural wood, my budgies seem to like it a lot. Do you think I should put real wood perches???

Im a new member of this board coming straight from Italy....Id like to share some lil portraits of my 6 budgies with this board's wonderful members. I know they may look 'vulgar' to some of you 'cause they are not particularly refined genetically nor suitable for an exibition, but I'd just love to have the opinion of the experts about their age and condition...so please feel free to express any doubt or concern on their actual conditions...do they look overweight to you? Please tell me...everything that comes to your minds. I would REALLY appreciate it :beer: I eventually decided to post links to the uploads I did on photobucket...that's because many of those are already posted on another forum which allows a bigger frame...some are exclusive, though, a real premiere They are slightly bigger than those allowed (mostly 640x480), hence I hope there will be no problems even with the slowest connections... My aunt's 6 budgies were named after some famous painters because of their colors and patterns... Let's start with the gents, just because are those I bought first. Here's Gauguin... http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd228/m...e/PICT0001a.jpg http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd228/m...e/PICT0045a.jpg http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd228/m...e4/PICT0085.jpg http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd228/m...e2/PICT0029.jpg ...Magritte: http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd228/m...e/PICT0037a.jpg http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd228/m...e2/PICT0019.jpg http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd228/m...e/PICT0005a.jpg http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd228/m...e4/PICT0005.jpg Dalì: http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd228/m...te/PICT0007.jpg http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd228/m...e/PICT0043a.jpg http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd228/m...te/PICT0049.jpg http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd228/m...e/PICT0016a.jpg http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd228/m...e2/PICT0015.jpg And here come the ladies: Matisse... http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd228/m...e/PICT0033a.jpg http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd228/m...e/PICT0034a.jpg http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd228/m...e4/PICT0009.jpg http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd228/m...e3/PICT0029.jpg http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd228/m...e2/PICT0074.jpg Fragonard: http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd228/m...e3/PICT0018.jpg http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd228/m...e3/PICT0004.jpg http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd228/m...e3/PICT0013.jpg http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd228/m...agonard0001.jpg http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd228/m...e4/PICT0094.jpg And Tamara (deLempicka): http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd228/m...e3/PICT0005.jpg http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd228/m...e3/PICT0027.jpg Funny she has just one blue 'facial mark' (don't know the proper term in English)... http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd228/m...ra/PICT0091.jpg ...the left one is snow-white... http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd228/m...ra/PICT0090.jpg I find this one particularly irresistable.... http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd228/m...ra/PICT0073.jpg The couples are the following: Gauguin+Tamara: http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd228/m...ra/PICT0071.jpg http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd228/m...e4/PICT0111.jpg Dalì+Fragonard: http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd228/m...e3/PICT0004.jpg http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd228/m...e3/PICT0037.jpg http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd228/m...e3/PICT0036.jpg Magritte+Matisse: http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd228/m...e4/PICT0110.jpg Although I should mix some viagra with their seeds...here they look particularly sleepy... http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd228/m...e4/PICT0107.jpg Hope you enjoyed my 1st post and forgot my lack of linguistic skills with the cuteness of my 6 little birds

Some of those pics on photobucket are already posted in another forum...guess they all are about 640x480 pixels...if I shrink them using photobucket what would be of those already posted? They'll be shrinked as well in consequence. They'll not show up anymore in the other posts...or whatelse??? To Kaz: do you know which town/region of Italy your granfather originally came from? I see you live in Australia. There's plenty of small villages in my surroundings which became ghost towns because many people left them for Australia, particularly after WWII...Some distant relatives of mine are currently visiting Perth on a trip to celebrate the inauguration of the Monument of the Emigrant, and they are bringing the Holy Thorn with them (one of the thorns that were on JC's 'crown', they say)...unfortunately I only have an Italian article on this subject: Pert _ Monument to Emigrants Ooops, hope you would forgive me for the brief 'out of topic' detour

Thank you!!!! I have just downloaded that resizing device you put in the 'How to post pictures' section of this wonderful board...does it work? Am I wrong or should pop up somewhere disguised as a button within Internet Explorer?

Thank you both...yes, Id love to share the portraits of my budgies with the rest of you, but due to the size restrictions I cannot post directly those I have saved on photobucket...can I post hyperlinks to the full-size images on the photo section?

Hey, hello! I just realised Im not the 1st Italian member of this board...which makes me feel less uncomfortable while writing this message...okay I live near Rome, and I breed/feed/support a crew of 6 budgies which belong to my neighbouring aunt who is too old to do all by herself...my English is quite rusty if not totally insane, so I hope you will be so kind to understand and forgive those awful distortions I have performed and am about to perform on your beautiful language... :devil: I'm definitely not an expert such as duth, whom I heard of while visiting a budgie-devoted Italian forum, but a genuinely enthusiastic amateur of this wonderful species of parakeets... As I told you, Im feeling kinda nervous in leaving that oh-so-cosy Italian forum and approaching this marble sanctuary of the Australian Budgerigar, this polychrome, opalescent Pantheon of the most lovely birds...I can almost hear my voice echoing from the skyscraping vaults and a flock of budgies fixing me with inquisitorial eyes from above, completely still and silent... ...so please say something nice and kind...a welcome would be great