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Congratulations Kaz what a great photo

I just love this grey spangle baby GB

Beautiful babies Snoopy

good to hear the babies are doing well and I think the name Jude is a great name for the hen

Thanks Kaz

Yes Dave I agree also, your writing was so good I actually had to check myself numerous times while reading your post and remind myself that it was actually not a great novel I kept getting lost in, it was you explaing to us what happened to you and your budgies one night. although with all this wonderful feedback about your writting maybe it is time to put the teaching on the backburner and get into writing novels

Thanks Nubbly I do hope they will be beneficial to my breeding, they will hopefully be the start of many many more great ones to come... Then I will just have to figure out what they lack and keep improving them well that's the plan anyway and to have a whole heap of fun doing it.....and of course to learn

Thank you very much Snoopy I am very proud of them, although now that I have been bitten badly by the exhibition budgie bug.....round two 2010 commenced last week I am hoping for some more very special birds out of these pairings.

Thanks JB and Sunnie I am very very happy with the new additions, it was exciting waiting to see how they would look and I have been pleasantly surprised, I am looking forward to entering them in my first club show

Not sure what other clubs do but our club gives out trophy's to the winners of each class at our table shows, these trophy's are suppose to be returned before the next show. I think the club is finding it hard to keep track of where the trophys go and they are not being returned so the winners at the next show don't get presented with the trophy, they still get their money for winning but as a beginner I would rather have a ribbon with the club name and a first, second or third and what class my bird was in on the ribbon and actually get to keep it rather than the possibility of not getting the oppotunity to get a photo with the trophy or having to keep track of it to return it the following month.

a photo update on my 2010 babies so far and some more photos of my 2010 babies happy in the aviary not the scary show cage

Hope all the little ones make it Dave, a very good job at reviving them too : )

Thanks GB & Taboo I am happy with the babies so far with some more to fledge soon they are my first attempt at show breeding so hopefully it will only get better from here

Some photos of my new babies

thanks Amy I was thinking about using shade cloth, the birds have been getting frights at night for the last week, I thought it was a cat as by the time we got out there when they were scattering what ever had caused it was gone, I finally saw the owls last night they were swooping about 10 cm past the front of my 5 metre aviary now as soon as the budgies hear them they all take off in hysterics, I put my daughters fake (but looks very real) kitty on the cage last night and covered it that seemed to fix it, but while I was outside the owls were actually swooping very close to the kids and I when we were near the aviary while we were trying to fix the problem, they don't seem shy what so ever we waited out there and tried to scare them off they were just looking at us like we were strange