u/cassowarius

She's headed for the breeding cabinet very shortly. Because she's one of my indoor birds I am taking her out every day for some extra sunlight. They do get some sun through the open window but I am taking a little extra precaution to ensure she definitely has good levels of vitamin D built up, which she'll need to pass her eggs safely.

She is a cinnamon violet heritage clearwing, to be paired with Little King Richard, a red violet heritage clearwing

One of my 890245 budgies (jk only got 42 at the moment)

Young lady with an underbite, believe to be the result of a mite problem in the nest which lead to some early nutritional deficiency, absolute disaster of a thing to happen. You can't really see it in the pic but her top beak tucks into her lower beak. She should be fine, can eat fine etc, but she's gonna tag along to the avian vet next week anyway just for a check, along with her siblings.

She's a dominant pie with not much obvious pied markings, I call this the half-arsed pied.

Apologies if this sort of question has been asked often before. I have here one of my Australian bush budgies who unfortunately died unexpectedly and was thinking of preserving her skeleton. I've previously only dabbled in taxidermy; this will be my first time preserving a skeleton.

I've had a look at the guides in the sticky and they say that maceration is not a good method for small animals like this and unless I completely missed it I couldn't see anything pertaining to small birds. Yet if I google around, maceration is recommended. So I'm a bit lost and would love to hear from someone who has actually worked with small birds before.

Thanks

Queenie the Bush Budgie back when she was in quarantine when I first got her and I was going around shining a UV light on all my birds to see which ones glowed the most (blue series glow the least)

She was just looking at me like "wtf kinda home have I come to now...."

Youngest of the clutch, just left the nest this morning at 5 and a half weeks old, his brothers and sisters have all been out for more than a week.

When he was about 12 - 16 hours old I had to handfeed him, sometimes the youngest can miss a feed because the older siblings push in so I always monitor for that, but then we had a mite problem in the nest when he was hatched. I was able to identify the problem and solve the issue so after that everything went fine, but when this guy was 6 days old, he looked like a 3 day old. I was about 95% sure he wasn't gonna make it.

He never got banded because I was too busy worrying about him, banding was the last thing on my mind.

Anyway.

He's now the biggest one of the lot, beautiful violet colour, happy and healthy, loves his scritchies.

Name ideas welcome.

Well done, Lucy!

(I got it off, don't worry)

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Tigerlily is one of my recent babies and without a doubt the best bird I've ever bred in terms of temperament. So sweet and gentle. But um.... I'd like my hand back, Tigerlily!

(no more budgies from me today, I promise!)

Had to make a trip into Toowoomba yesterday, as I was leaving I thought I'd just swing by the pet shop because I needed some more pellets and lo and behold, they had this one young Australian Heritage Clearwing lady. The staff were able to tell me her exact age and a bit about where she came from (you don't usually see these in pet shops, unfortunately the breeder had to quickly shut shop due to some serious life circumstances). By far the cheapest I ever paid for one of these too! What a find!!

Haven't named her yet, she's hanging out in quarantine for the next 30 days and then she'll be introduced to my small but growing collection of Heritage Clearwings.

I see them just about every time I step outside at night, but only just recently managed to spot them in daylight for the first time ever

One of my recent babies. Is a cinnamon! Took me by surprise. Mum is one of my own bred violet pieds, dad is a grey pied not bred by me - never would've guessed dad was split for the cinnamon colour. What a happy finding, as I was actively looking to pair her with a cinnamon man but couldn't find one available (or so I thought....) Photo doesn't do good justice but with cinnamon budgie mutation, the stripes and wing markings will be brown instead of black.

I'll post more photos of this stunning young lady as her feathers continue developing.

Keep seeing these bean shaped seed things appear in my yard, they are hard and shiny like rocks. They appear underneath my Bottle Tree but are not Bottle Tree seeds. The only other nearby trees are mulberries and crepe myrtle. Approx 1cm - 1.5cm length.

Western Downs region QLD

This dashing little man was kind enough to pose for u/Adventurous_One_4240 and looking very splendid indeed in his flashy blue togs.

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