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Sunday, September 30, 2012

Northwest Bird Rescue Sites

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I've written about rescuing an injured hummingbird and feeding it for several weeks until it recovered. Rehabilitating a wild bird is ve...
Friday, September 28, 2012

Nests for Hand Fed Birds

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Hand feeding young Bourke parakeets. Each time they are fed I change their diapers, moving them from a dirty box to a clean one. In the ph...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Baby Lady Gouldian Finches

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Lady Gouldian finches at 16 days of age. These two Lady Gouldian finch babies hatched from eggs on Friday, September 7. They were hatch...
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Bourke Parakeet Baby Updates

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  Sweetheart is a pink-eyed, opaline fallow Rosy Bourke parakeet hand fed last year. The pale pink and white bird behind him is being ...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Tuesday update on Bourkes and Gouldians

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Rosie and Pretty Boy's fourth egg hatched this morning. I got a quick look when she left the box, but she's very protective, and I ...
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Monday, September 17, 2012

Hand Feeding Baby Birds Update

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These two are easy to feed because they are  young. They're from different clutches. Feeding our two smallest Rosy Bourkes this mor...
Thursday, September 13, 2012

Lady Gouldian Finches, Banding Babies 6 Days Old

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Bands on their tiny feet. Longest toe doesn't show up. It is under them and what holds the bands on their leg. Put bands on the two...
Friday, September 7, 2012

Lady Gouldian Finch Babies, Two Hatched!

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About eight hours after the first Lady Gouldian finch egg hatched in our homemade incubator, the second one did too. Exciting!   Sec...
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Artificial Incubation A Success - Handfeeding Lady Gouldian Finch Baby

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First feeding for baby Lady Gouldian finch. This bird was hatched in a homemade incubator from day one.   Hurray! Here is our first ...
Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Artificial Incubation of Eggs in a Homemade Incubator

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I've hesitated to post about this, waiting to see how successful it would be. But, I've decided to go ahead. We have two eggs that ...
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Sunday, September 2, 2012

Feeding Flame for his Five

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 This was saved as a draft and never posted. These photos are from last summer, 2011, so I thought I'd go ahead and put them up. Peac...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Bourke Breeding Update

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  Sold seven Rosy Bourkes over the weekend, five 2012 babies and two from last year with pink eyes and beautiful. I'd planned to kee...