We Have Babies Again!

We woke up this morning to a beautiful sight ... some more finchy babies! Well I will admit they're not beautiful to look at now, but see how Bafin's turned out!

Here is a glimpse of some of our new babies. We have four of them today ( Ricky and Rachel have two, Ross and Monica have one, and Chandler and Becks have one ).

These are Ricky and Rachel's two babies. You can see both of them on either side of the yet to be hatched eggs.

Poor Joey

Poor Joey is all miserable and seems to be looking desperately for Phoebe. He was ok until midday today and then he started looking out for her, didn't go into his nest and abandoned his usual search for stuff to take and put into the nest. It's like he keeps sitting on the branch and hopping around and looking and calling for her.

Bafin seems a little lost too as Phoebe used to chase him away from her nest, so he's probably wondering where she's gone.

Phoebe Is Gone

Today was a sad start to our day and weekend. Phoebe who was the littlest of all our finchies flew out of her cage today. It happened in the blink of an eye, and we couldn't see where she went. We waited in hope for a few hours, hoping that she would come back to her eggs and Joey but no such luck.

Joey appears to be ok for now, but we'll see.

More Of Bafin!

Like I said Bafin's colors are changing daily, and if you mistake him for Ricky in these photographs, I wouldn't blame you!

There are also some more photographs of our finchie's eggs!

We Have Eggs Again!

We'd taken out all the nests from the cages to give our birdies a rest from the whole parenting scene, as too much of it tends to make them weak ( Not that taking out the nests stopped them! Every couple of days we would find an egg laid on the floor of the cage! ).

After giving them enough of a rest we put the nests back in, and over the course of the last few days, we now have 20 eggs in total! We're hoping to get at least a few more baby finches from this round after which we're stopping or else we'll need a whole new bigger apartment to house us all!

Don't miss the flower in one of the nests ( Joey and Phoebe )! Joey picks up everything and anything he gets and puts it in his nest. Besides the flower you can also see some green stuff which are some of the boiled peas we give them to eat!

Our Non Confirmist Budgies!

When we bought our budgies, we bought two different colored pairs, hoping that they would mate together and we would have beautiful baby budgies! Unfortunately they don't seem to want to mate with the other of the same color ... well they do say variety is the spice of life!

Bafin's Growing Up!

Bafin's colors are changing almost daily and he's starting to look more and more like a grown up finch. From the looks of it he's going to turn out looking like Ricky ( the ex-Rachel for those who know the whole story! ).

Have a look at the all new Bafin!

Look how orange his beak's turned! You can also see the clearly defined orange cheeks and speckled chest which are the marks of a male finch.



With Daddy Joey ...



... and here he is with both parents busy eating ( he's one hyper and hungry finch! )



Bafin says "I know it's only bird seed but I'm loving it!"

More On Our New Budgies!

Our new budgies seem to have settled down well. Here are a few photographs of one of the green ones ( yes, we've not named them yet! )

Our New Birdies!

Our finchies got some new friends today ... four lovely budgerigars!!

We went to Galiff Street this morning to buy nests for our finches, and in the bargain ended up buying four beautiful budgies. One's a blue pair, and the other is yellow and green.

Have a look!

Our Birdies With A Visitor!

Our finchies get visitors everyday ... inquisitive little sparrows! Or rather hungry sparrows because they come to get whatever bird seed they can from outside the cage.

Here's a photograph ( not a very clear one though ) of today's visitor ( bottom left hand side ). They come and sit on the little openings in the balcony wall.