Bird's You Have Seen To- Day (2)

LOL @ Dave!

Yes, I noticed the robins over there are very friendly, James.  They have a distinctive song too.

A Gila woodpecker seems to have taken over the yard today.

They're beautiful, James.  Did you breed them for yourself or for the pet trade?

i bought a breeding pair off a breeder a few years ago,there were about 6 of us locally who bred birds for pleasure so any young ones we had spare we would swop for other species.

i rarely sold to pet-shops simply because they make a lot of money on them and dont treat them correct.-i got rid about 7 yrs ago after having birds  for 35 yrs and boy do i miss them.i had canaries,siskins and splendids.

You had peach-faced lovebirds too, right?

I had a couple of parakeets once that I killed by accident.  It was a Saturday afternoon and the husband and son were out and about and I was home alone doing laundry.  At lunch time, I put on a pot of water to boil for grits or noodles or something and went into the bedroom to fold the clean laundry, promptly forgetting about the water on the stove (cooker).  Well, it was a teflon pan, and I let it boil dry.  The birds cage was in the kitchen and the fumes from the teflon killed them so fast it wasn't funny.  (Canary in the coalmine?)  They just made this horrible little shriek and keeled over.  It was horrible!  I was so distraught, I dumped all my jewelry out of my jewelry box to make them a little coffin. 

It still makes me sad when I think about it.

i had peach faced lovebirds as well -but in a seperate quarter they were nic e but very loud and very vicious with other birds especially if allowed to mix.

i always kept them caged --also had kakarikis,turquisines,rosa bourkes,all gone now.