This was staring at me while I was watering the garden the other day- at first I thought I'd left the aviary door open and went into a panic- even though I don't own a white budgie!!

Have tried to find the owner but no-one has come forward so I am more then happy to keep her.

She is a pale grey, cinnamon cheek spots (not cheek patches), opaline, doesn't look spangle in person but does in the pics, some sort of dilute (greywing??) she seems to have a mix of quite a few mutations

Anyone??

She's just gorgeous - you're so lucky she chose your garden to visit! :hap:

She is lovely! i'm useless with the mutations though, (Laughing out loud), so i wont give any opinion on that one!!!

i've had a few come into the garden, but never hang around, never that lucky here (Laughing out loud)

I say, grey greywing opaline spangle, pretty bird, I haven't any idea what the cinnamon dimples in the mask mean.

If she is an univited guest she is very pretty! :rip: Looks like my Coco quite a bit and Daz said she was a dilute (can't remember, you would have to check earlier posts). Looks like she is settling in just fine! :hap:

she's gorgeous.

 

She's a grey cinnamon opaline spangle. :hap: Gorgeous girl!! I want her.

agree with others :hap:

 

Lucky you to have caught her.

Quarantined ???

excellent question hath and if she came to your aviary uninvited and she is a gorgeous girl I would start calling some vets, shelters and look in the paper. Remember alot of people can loose a budgie accidently and the owner may be looking. . If it was I, I would attempt it even though she is gorgeous someone could be worried about her.

 

I agree with Cheeta on the mutation.

Not quarantined as she had already been talking to my birds through the wire and I'm all out of spare cages.

Have been to every petshop in the area, notice boards and rangers (thats all we have being a small town) and left notices. No plans to breed her just giving her a good life for now.

She's so pretty!

I am surprised she doesn't have a leg ring to identify her breeder. Lucky she arrived at your place. Maybe you should call her lucky?

That’s what I call a “lucky day”, a gorgeous budgie like that just comes to you through the hands of destiny!

 

That happened to me once, some years ago, a gorgeous green recessive pied came through an open window to have a little chat with my budgies.

 

About the variety… I’m a bit puzzled… what colour would you say her cheek patches are? That could help.

The cheek patches are a very pale (but iridescent) baby blue, very similar to a greywing male i have. Hers are tiny little patches though.

opaline, spangle, cinnamon grey ( I was thinking she was a greywing at first due to the faded colour but then the cinnamon mask spots showed themselves)

The male - her cheek patches are the same sorta colour

What a very beautiful unexpected addition to your aviary am i correct in thinking you were able to capture her and then put her in the aviary or did she manage to somehow get into your aviary? Either way shes lucky she has a safe home GOOD JOB

Cheers :beer:

Una

She is a beauty. Just mail he to me if you dont want her

Cindy

She seemed quite intent on hanging around, it was real windy and the tree she was in was knocking her about but she hung on! Put some seed on the roof of the aviary, then grabbed turfed the inside budgie out of his cage and set that up with a length of cotton running from the door around the side of the house so I could pull it shut when she went in. (has worked before!) BUT I got sick of waiting and walked up to her with the bird net distracted her and scooped her from behind.

She is absolutely gorgeous! :ausb: