Between new lighting in my bird room, and my husband's new camera, I got some photos recently that I actually thought turned out pretty good. So I'll share a few.

 

Top: Angus, Finnie's recessive pied boy, and bottom: Daniel, the son of my Mystery bird, from 2011

 

 

This is one of my favorite boys. I hand fed two boys last fall that I called Blondie and Dagwood. Blondie got sold, but I kept Dagwood. He is great. Even grown up and in with all the other boys, he still comes to me and lands on my hand.

 

okay, we seem to have a problem with Photobucket here. (Besides that they changed themselves again, and it's harder to navigate. )

 

My upload size setting got increased without my knowledge, and it is not letting me change it back to 480x640. So I hope the auto-resize is working, and I apologize for the giant photos. It's either that, or I just give up.

 

 

Seriously, now they are giving me tiny ones?!

 

All right, back to giant.

 

Teagan and Donovan

 

 

Dugan and Finnie. This will be Finnie's last clutch. She has two eggs so far. I'm pretty sure Dugan is a dilute, so barring any cinnamon or recessive pied, he should be a better match for sorting Finnie's genes out than Flynn was last year. There was too much cinnamon and recessive pied in last year's clutch. Dugan came from a pet store, so fingers crossed he's not split to stuff.

 

 

This is Flower, molting.

 

 

Two of Flower's clutchmates, Kenneth and Bambi

 

 

The future of my lacewing line, baby Adrian. I plan to breed him to Flower when he grows up, to get males split to both ino and cinnamon. I could start my lacewing line right now with Bambi, if I hadn't gotten stupid last spring and sold my creamino chick, Popcorn. So mad at myself. But at the time I just didn't think I should try to work on lacewings, and I needed to reduce my numbers.

 

 

Here's my Mystery boy! He's waiting his turn to get bred to a cinnamon hen who I hope is not split to greywing. That's to test him for cinnamon, and hope that the greywing doesn't get in the way.

 

 

Next is Quinn, son of Teagan, above, and Kevin, one of my spangles. He's how I figured out that Kevin is split to dilute, and Teagan is split to yellow face mutant two. He had a twin brother, Flynn, but Flynn got sold.

 

 

This is Seaweed and Thumper, who are both split to recessive pied. I'm hoping they will give me yf2 sky blue recessive pied spangles, just like the one Neville won Budgie of the Month with, back in Oct. 2010. I loved that bird, and I've been working on breeding one of my own, ever since. (Thumper is a sister to Flower and Bambi, in case you're noticing a trend here. )

 

 

This is my long awaited "Goal #1" bird, a sky blue cinnamon opaline greywing. I have a thread about that somewhere, that I need to update, if I get the chance. Now I want to try to make one in cobalt or violet. This girl's name is Winnie. She's a daughter of Quinn, and a grand-daughter of Finnie.

 

 

And here's my beautiful Dagwood, again, with Winford on his right. Winford is Winnie's future mate. He is a cobalt opaline greywing, split to cinnamon.

 

 

That's it for the budgies this time around. I'll leave you with one of my new Gouldian Finches, Pinhead Pete. (Hee hee, he went through a really heavy molt after I got him )

Beautiful lot of birds you have there, some real great colors. Good luck with them.

Thanks

Love the pastel shades, some lovely birds there Finnie. Hope you achieve your goals, every clutch is different so you never know what to expect.

Beautiful photos

Thank you for the nice compliments.

 

I couldn't get Photobucket to upload any more for me yesterday, so I didn't add these photos, but here is my newest addition, a Rosy Bourke Parakeet:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I won't know if it's a boy or girl until I get the results back from the DNA test, but his/ her name will be either Pixel or Pixie.

Edited October 9, 201212 yr by Finnie

Wow! Those are all such lovely birds

Its cool you got a bourke parakeet.

 

Note- I got my budgie Allen from you and I love him sooo much! thanks:)

Wow! Those are all such lovely birds

Its cool you got a bourke parakeet.

 

Note- I got my budgie Allen from you and I love him sooo much! thanks:)

 

Oh my gosh, oh my gosh!!

 

Just yesterday I was outside weeding, and it made me think of your parents' blueberry farm business, and I wondered how Allen was doing!! I am so glad to hear that you still have him, and that you still love him.

 

By the way, when I mentioned Blondie and Dagwood above, Blondie was your Allen.

Wow! Those are all such lovely birds

Its cool you got a bourke parakeet.

 

Note- I got my budgie Allen from you and I love him sooo much! thanks:)

 

Oh my gosh, oh my gosh!!

 

Just yesterday I was outside weeding, and it made me think of your parents' blueberry farm business, and I wondered how Allen was doing!! I am so glad to hear that you still have him, and that you still love him.

 

By the way, when I mentioned Blondie and Dagwood above, Blondie was your Allen.

Blondie haha! That's funny.

And yeah, Allen's doing great. He's just the sweetest little bird ever.

Your flock is so beautiful!

Also looking at all of your birds colorful toys is really getting me exsited to get started on making a new batch of bead themed toys for my 7

And that finch is absolutly stunning. I have never seen a finch like that!

Edited September 25, 201212 yr by Jodie

ohh l love all your birds they are all gorgeous.

Thank you Birdluv and Jodie.

 

I have to get busy making some more toys, too. I'm short on swings right now.

I have been doing a couple of toys with nice bright colours and some not so bright (just to shock them sometimes) last weekend I brought some alphabet beads I love them!!

 

Oh how do you make swings? I have only spiced up old swings that I brought with some beads added on.

To make swings, I use leftover pieces of dowels from when I cut my perches. I drill two holes through that, on either end. I bought some wire from the craft store that is fairly flexible, but not too weak, so it will hold its shape somewhat. I cut the wire to the length I want, depending on how big of swing I am making. in the center of the wire, I loop it around a key ring to make the hanger. Then I string beads or buttons (or alphabet blocks, I love those too) onto the two ends of the wire until the wire is almost full. Then I poke the ends of the wire through the holes I drilled in the piece of dowel and with a needle nose pliers I make a small loop and poke the very tip of the wire back into the hole, so it is not exposed. The loop keeps the dowel from falling off the wire. If I am adding bells to hang below the dowel, I put those on before I twist the loop.

 

 

 

Great job very clever I bet they love them.

The Gouldian finch is a male, yellow head, purple breast, and unless my eyes deceive me a single factor yellow back. This is a sex linked mutation. And the good thing about Gouldians of this mutation, is that unlike the usual split mutation, it shows the single factor or split visually. The single factor cock has no black ring round his head or under his chin. All beautiful birds, though my bias towards finches is showing.

LML

The Gouldian finch is a male, yellow head, purple breast, and unless my eyes deceive me a single factor yellow back. This is a sex linked mutation. And the good thing about Gouldians of this mutation, is that unlike the usual split mutation, it shows the single factor or split visually. The single factor cock has no black ring round his head or under his chin. All beautiful birds, though my bias towards finches is showing.

LML

 

Hee hee, yes I can see that you picked right up on the finch mutations!

 

Your are right about Pete's colors. I have four Gouldians, and he is my prettiest.

 

Are you on the Finchforum? I am Finnie on there, too.