Friday, September 30, 2011
A New Page! :-)
I've added a brand new page titled "Meet My Birds", where you can see photos and descriptions of all the birds I have. :-) Check it out! The link is over on the right, near the top of the page.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Some New Pics :-)
Above: Whisper and Ghost's babies, Bagel and Biscuit. Both are males. Biscuit has the black band, and Bagel has the orange band. Whisper (mom) has the yellow band.
Above: Frostie's biological babies, Jelly Bean and Peanut. Muffin (Whisper and Ghost's baby that Frostie fostered) has the pink band. Jelly Bean has a purple band, and Peanut has a green band. All are weaned and will be up for adoption shortly (I'll be keeping any black-cheeks, if that's how they turn out).
Above: Frostie (white) and her babies, Jelly Bean and Peanut. Muffin (Whisper and Ghost's baby that Frostie fostered) has the pink band. Jelly Bean has a purple band, and Peanut has a green band. All are weaned and will be up for adoption shortly (I'll be keeping any black-cheeks, if that's how they turn out).
Above: Smoky, Tangerine and Echo's baby. He's fully weaned now and is up for adoption. :-) Unfortunately their single hatchling from a few weeks ago didn't make it. She fed it, but it just didn't seem to thrive.
Above: Bambi's eyes are looking MUCH better! :-)
Above: Baby dove, pretty much weaned at this point. :-) It'll be up for adoption in about 2 weeks. Momma and daddy dove are on eggs again. I see a cage divider happening after this clutch! :-/
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Baby Dove :-)
Mr. and Mrs. Hootie have a new youngster! It hatched about 2-1/2 weeks ago (approximately August 24), and has already fledged. Talk about a cutie patootie! :-)
Long Time No See! :-)
It's been a few days since I've posted! One of the delays was caused from being drenched with 9-10" of water in one day, which over-saturated our dry ground. August was the driest month on record, according to the news, and then the remnants of Hurricane Lee came along and flooded us. Trees were down everywhere, including some at the beginning of our subdivision. Check this tree out, laying across the power lines. The police closed the road with a barricade, but can you believe people were driving around the barricade and underneath the tree? Talk about stupid! :-(
We live on a hill and didn't have any "direct" problem with flooding, but our power was out for 25 hours, and our roof leaked, messing up our living room ceiling. Robert's put the repair on his "to do" list.
And on top of all that, we have a sick or injured zebra finch. :-( I found her in terrible shape one evening when I got up, and immediately moved her to a quarantine cage. I have no idea what happened to her, but both of her eyes were gummed and matted/crusted up, the right side being worse than the left. I'm friends with several experts, and they feel she may have gotten her head stuck in the cage somehow, and the struggle to free herself may have caused the injuries. The only other possibility is that her cage mate (another hen) may have attacked her, but usually if there's a fight, any injuries are on one side only. I guess we'll never know for sure. Either way, the poor little girl looked absolutely HORRIBLE. I'll go ahead and post photos, but STOP READING HERE if you're eating or tend to get queasy!
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I've been putting Neosporin on her face to ward off any infection, and have some avian antibiotics ordered. Now (two days later), she's looking considerably better. I was worried that her eyes were injured or gone, but I know for sure that her left eye is intact and functional, and she just opened her right eye a peek. It had been crusted/matted over, but the Neosporin softened it up. Her right eye appears to be intact as well, but I can't be 100% sure at this point. Here are some pics from this morning. The wet-look is from the Neosporin, and the hole is her ear (looks huge, doesn't it??).
I'm now optimistic that she'll make a complete recovery, but at first, I thought for sure she was a goner. She's a tough little thing, that's for sure! She's been eating and drinking normally the whole time, and is as feisty as ever, which amazes me, considering how terrible she looked/looks! :-)
Edited an hour later to add: Her other eye is fully open now, is intact, and appears to be fine! Woo hoo! :-)
We live on a hill and didn't have any "direct" problem with flooding, but our power was out for 25 hours, and our roof leaked, messing up our living room ceiling. Robert's put the repair on his "to do" list.
And on top of all that, we have a sick or injured zebra finch. :-( I found her in terrible shape one evening when I got up, and immediately moved her to a quarantine cage. I have no idea what happened to her, but both of her eyes were gummed and matted/crusted up, the right side being worse than the left. I'm friends with several experts, and they feel she may have gotten her head stuck in the cage somehow, and the struggle to free herself may have caused the injuries. The only other possibility is that her cage mate (another hen) may have attacked her, but usually if there's a fight, any injuries are on one side only. I guess we'll never know for sure. Either way, the poor little girl looked absolutely HORRIBLE. I'll go ahead and post photos, but STOP READING HERE if you're eating or tend to get queasy!
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I've been putting Neosporin on her face to ward off any infection, and have some avian antibiotics ordered. Now (two days later), she's looking considerably better. I was worried that her eyes were injured or gone, but I know for sure that her left eye is intact and functional, and she just opened her right eye a peek. It had been crusted/matted over, but the Neosporin softened it up. Her right eye appears to be intact as well, but I can't be 100% sure at this point. Here are some pics from this morning. The wet-look is from the Neosporin, and the hole is her ear (looks huge, doesn't it??).
I'm now optimistic that she'll make a complete recovery, but at first, I thought for sure she was a goner. She's a tough little thing, that's for sure! She's been eating and drinking normally the whole time, and is as feisty as ever, which amazes me, considering how terrible she looked/looks! :-)
Edited an hour later to add: Her other eye is fully open now, is intact, and appears to be fine! Woo hoo! :-)
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Chaos In The Bird Room! :-/
What a "fun" morning. NOT! :-/ Today is cleaning day in the bird room, and I saw that Frostie's nest box with the three youngsters needed to be cleaned badly. Icky!!! So I carefully removed the nest box from the cage, with the not-yet-fledged babies inside, thinking I'd move them out of the box just long enough to wash it, then put them back in with new, clean nesting materials.
They had other plans.
No sooner did I get the babies moved out of the box, they all decided THAT would be a good time to try out their wings. Away they all flew! :-O My bird room is small, only 9'x9', so we managed to find two of the three babies fairly quickly. We put them right back in the cage with their mom. The last baby DISAPPEARED. We tore the room apart trying to find it, but it was just GONE. An hour and many gray hairs later, I finally spied it hiding behind a seed tray in the cage on the shelf below its mom's cage. It's gray, so it blended right in with the black cage and tray. Robert managed to catch it, and took it back home to its mom. Whew.
Here are some new pics, taken this morning. ;-)
Above: Frostie's two biological babies, Peanut and Jelly Bean, and foster baby Muffin (Whisper and Ghost's "runt"). This was before I cleaned their nest box. Eeeew. As I mentioned previously, I don't generally clean nest boxes until after the babies have fledged except in extreme cases, and this one definitely qualified as "extreme". LOL!
Above: Frostie afterwards, looking not-too-thrilled at me! :-(
Above: The three "surprise!!!" fledglings.
Above: Whisper and two of her three babies, Bagel and Biscuit. They're learning how to eat on their own now. :-) Muffin is Whisper's other baby (the one that Frostie is fostering).
Above: Tangerine and Echo's baby. They had two originally, but she tossed one of them. :-(
They had other plans.
No sooner did I get the babies moved out of the box, they all decided THAT would be a good time to try out their wings. Away they all flew! :-O My bird room is small, only 9'x9', so we managed to find two of the three babies fairly quickly. We put them right back in the cage with their mom. The last baby DISAPPEARED. We tore the room apart trying to find it, but it was just GONE. An hour and many gray hairs later, I finally spied it hiding behind a seed tray in the cage on the shelf below its mom's cage. It's gray, so it blended right in with the black cage and tray. Robert managed to catch it, and took it back home to its mom. Whew.
Here are some new pics, taken this morning. ;-)
Above: Frostie's two biological babies, Peanut and Jelly Bean, and foster baby Muffin (Whisper and Ghost's "runt"). This was before I cleaned their nest box. Eeeew. As I mentioned previously, I don't generally clean nest boxes until after the babies have fledged except in extreme cases, and this one definitely qualified as "extreme". LOL!
Above: Frostie afterwards, looking not-too-thrilled at me! :-(
Above: The three "surprise!!!" fledglings.
Above: Whisper and two of her three babies, Bagel and Biscuit. They're learning how to eat on their own now. :-) Muffin is Whisper's other baby (the one that Frostie is fostering).
Above: Tangerine and Echo's baby. They had two originally, but she tossed one of them. :-(
Thursday, September 1, 2011
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