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One little baby Sun Conure

Written by George Wednesday, 02 June 2010 13:37

We have one cute little Sun conure baby right now being hand-fed. This little one was all bald when we pulled him for hand feeding last week. Ususally they are covered in little fuzzies, but this little one decided that 'Bald is Beautiful!'. He is growing his pin feathers now and in another couple of weeks you will not even know that he used to look like this...

Other news from the Aviary - the Severe macaws are still sitting tight on their 3 eggs, and the Militaries are keeping watch over their 2 eggies. We have to pull them in the next week or so to incubate and hatch the babies. These are the two pairs that we have a good chance of getting babies this time around. The Amazons went back to nest, but we are not so sure if it is any good. One of these days, we are going to be surprised and have some Yellow Nape babies.

Introducing Kira and Gorman

Written by George Saturday, 29 May 2010 22:03

This is Gorman and Kira - a pair of turquoise green cheeks. We got them home today from the breeder in PA (Thanks, Carol!). They are young and just weaned and they are going to be the base breeding stock for our Turquoise mutation green cheeks. The female (Kira) is yellowsided turquoise, as you can see from the light colored beak and chest areas. The male (Gorman) is a normal Turquoise split to yellowsided. So we can expect a variety of turquoise combinations from this pair. Here you can see them enjoying their soft foods - today it is brown rice, corn and green beans

Being an young pair, it's going to be a while before we get any babies, but we are excited to add another color mutation to our breeding stock of green cheeks.

Spring is here and our babies are here

Written by George Sunday, 16 May 2010 12:14

Spring is here - outside looks absolutely beautiful. The sun is out, the flowers are blooming and our bird feeders are mobbed with wild birds. It sure is the time of beauty. Last year we had a pair of chickadees nest in our spring wreath next to the front door. We had to wait for them to finish 2 clutches of babies before we could remove the wreath well into the summer. After we removed it, they nested in the hanging basket in the front porch. So to avoid all that, we hung a nice nest box upfront for them. But old habits die hard, they already made a nest and had some eggs before we knew it on the new spring wreath, that Jodie paid a lot of money for. So that is the news from our chickadees. We also have 2 pairs of geese in the pond across the road, with 6 and 5 babies each to go with a pair of mallard ducks with 10 babies.

Talking of all the babies, we do have our first baby of the season from Sunshine and Bubba. We were expecting the baby last weekend, so maybe not all the eggs were good from them this clutch. We broke the news about the new baby on our latest tweet. That is right, we are not on twitter and you can also follow us on twitter - @cnyaviary. Ray and Rita are also sitting on 4 eggs, with babies due in another couple of weeks. We do have couple of eggs from the new Severe Macaw pair. We were a lot worried about this pair, but 'cross your fingers' - they are sitting tight for now. The amazons, after a clutch of clear eggs, are going back for the next clutch. The double clutch is first for them, so lets hope they get it right this time around. Penny (the alexandrines) seems to be getting ready to go to nest and so does the Military Macaws. So all in all, we are excited about this season. We are hoping for lots and lots of babies.

That is the news from here at the Aviary - we will try to update you all with news every week and twitter updates more often than that. Take care and enjoy the great weather.

Happy Easter

Written by George Sunday, 04 April 2010 10:24

Happy Easter to all from all of us here are CNY Aviary.

First of all the news from the nursery - the last baby from 2009 is going on soon. 'Holly' the wonderful baby Sun Conure is going home soon with Paula and family from Connecticut. With that we have start concentrating on the spring season - our birdies this year is getting a slow start to things and only a few pairs on right now. More of them are showing the inclination to be aggressive and that means only one thing - that they are getting ready to do something. Both our Blue Crown pairs are taking it easy it seems and the only thing they have done so far is chew a nice hole at the bottom of their nest box. Talking about holes, Sunshine and Bubbay chew up 2 nest boxes in 2 days and the third one seems to be holding up good for them.

The quaker colony has been a mystery for us - they do not seem to be doing anything as of now. The greencheeks are working their boxes. We have the amazons on eggs. Due to their nature of being super aggressive while on eggs, we do not bother to candle the eggs and leave them alone, so it is going to be a surprise when and if they hatch the young one this year.

As usual in spring and summer we will have more news and we will update this site quite often, so keep this page tuned for more news and developments from us. Thank You.