I finally have my aviary. It is much more humble than many I have seen on this site, but it is heaven for my four budgies and I think there is enough room for a few more.

 

I'll post pictures later today, but the brief description is that it is 2.4 x 0.9, but 0.65 of the length is a bird lock. It is up on the decking, so I have put in a wood floor on top of the decking. To prevent needing to mop that too often I have a piece of weed matting that I put on the bottom of the cage to catch the seed and poos. I have several of these so that I can swap them around from time to time. Anyway, if the wood doesn't work I'll move to pavers, or move to the garden and put in concrete. There are several places in the garden that the aviary will fit.

 

In addition to branches for perches I am also growing vegies in a pot for the budgies - at the moment it is spinach, silver beet and capsicum, the leaves of which they all love to munch on. I also put in native branches from time time - callistamen, eucalyptus, grevillia, wattle.

 

Being on the decking it is generally a few degrees cooler than outside - mainly because of the elevation. It is about 3 metres off the ground.

 

Anyway - with 0.9 x 1.75 m how many birds do you think?

Sounds really nice. I'd love to see the photos.

 

I also ways work on not cluttering up the aviary with perchs and allow 100mm to 200mm per bird with one free perch.

Anyway - with 0.9 x 1.75 m how many birds do you think?

About ten comfortably

Great - I was only after 8 altogether, so it looks like I'll have room. Daz, are you implying that I need to supply 8 perches with 8 birds in the aviary?

Here are the pictures. The aviary itself (sorry about the blurring)

 

 

Some interior shots

 

 

 

And a closer shot of the boys. George is up the back next to Fred (both courtesy of melbournebudgie) with Harry, the YF Blue and Ron, the voilet spangle. (Ithink I have my mutations correct)

 

See if you can rig up the seed dispenser so that a perch walks by it or it hangs next to a perch for ease of feeding :budgiedance:

What a cool aviary. i love it when they are new and so clean. It looks great on your patio - you will have some very happy budgies :budgiedance:

Great aviary... and so new and clean... (those were the days). So much space for them.

Thanks for the advice Kaz. George has been throwing out all of the millet to get to the hulled oats, so I have moved to a big open plate that they can nibble from. I saw a similar arrangement in a thread here which looked good. I've also now added a couple of native seedlings for them to nibble on.