Before I got her, at the breeders being messy!
Second day home. She is a little bit scared here.
Feeling a little more comfortable 2 weeks later.
Next I will post about my lovebirds. The first one I got was end of April 2005. His hatch date is mid-January. I use to know it but I lost the email that it was in and now it is lost forever. I still have his band if it ever becomes an issue. He managed to remove is after 2 months of playing with it. His name is Io and he is an american cinnamon in the blue series with a single dark factor. He was suppose to be a tame, hanfed lovebird according to thebreeder but, it turns out he was neither and after over a year of trying he got a girlfriend. Her name is Celeste and she is a whiteface double violet factor lovebird. She is handtame and was handfed. She even comes after me and steals mash from me when I'm feeding my grey. Celeste is what I originally wanted in a lovebird when I got Io under the impression he was a tame bird. Her hatch date is February 15, 2006 and I got her August 6, 2006. She is still amazingly tame even though she has been with the Io for a month now. They are both peachfaced lovebirds just different colour mutations of them. Here they are!
Io is on the left and Celeste is on the right!
What a difference the flash makes. They now live in a larger cage too. =)
She is just right up and in your face!
Next is the canary which brings my count to four now. He is an american singer but, he doesn't sing anymore. He was a canary at the store I work at and then one day he started bleeding and he had to be separated from the others. Turns out he picks his blood feathers which made him unsellable. So, I took him home in the hopes he would stop but, no such luck so I was allowed to take him home as a pet for free. I have since put him in a larger cage and he has only picked himself twice in the past couple month which is good. He use to pick himself at least once a week in the smaller cage. It was the flight feathers that were the worse cause they bleed like crazy and have to be pulled. Since he started picking he has never sung the way he use to. This summer he was doing some practising though! =) As a tribute to his habit his name is Hemo. Here he is!
What a cutie!
Next on the list is my baby starling. I guess not that much of a baby anymore. His name is Orion and my dad brought him home one day. He had found Orion in an industrial area and wanted me to raise and release him. It turns out that this poor little guy had an accident as a baby and has a broken wing and can see out of his left eye as it is small and white. I couldn't set him back knowing he wouldn't make it so I joined a starling forum, weaned him, and am keeping him. He is now getting his stars! I don't know for sure if it is a boy or a girl. Once he is older I will know. He definately has a lot of personality though! Here is Orion!
See the little white stars coming in on his chest?
That brings my count to five birds I own. The other seven are zebra finches. They are my brothers birds and they have a giant flight cage. He started out with one and I bought the original a girlfriend and the they raised two clutches of babies before the nest was pulled out. They were also switched over to a pellet diet. The pellets go through the coffee grinder so that they are easy to eat for them. They are healthy birds!
So that is my flock at home now! Some day I wish to have a yellow naped amazon and a lory. For the next little while though I think I am set.
