Winter News from the Aviary

Written by George Tuesday, 09 February 2010 14:02

It is winter here and it is cold - I mean really cold. We have been kind of escaping big winter storms this year and all the storms seems to be keeping well south of us. We see the weather channel news about 30" storms in DC and Baltimore area and feel sorry for every one down that way, but honestly we are not complaining. Even if we are not getting any monster storms this way we are getting a steady dose of lake effect snow thanks to the great lakes and the cold artic north. About the birds - they are all resting for the winter, we had couple of pairs with eggs but we do not believe any are fertile.

We do have so new pairs for this year. We have a 'Peach Front' conure pair. They are smaller that Blue Crowns and has a nice patch of orange (or you can say peach color) on their heads. They are often confused with the 'Half Moon' Conure or sometimes refered as 'Orange Fronted' conure. But the difference lies in the size of the birds and also the color of the beak. Peach fronts have a dark beak where as their bigger cousins have light colored beaks. The 'Peach Front' pair we have, we just call both of the 'Pumpkin' - the male talks a little and always asks us 'What you doing?' when we are near their cage to change water or other things. We have also paired up the female Yellow Sided conure to a really beautiful Pineapple male - he is just stunning with all the red in his belly - we will post a picture of the pair soon. We are still searching for a suitable name for this pair.

So that is the update from the aviary - we hope to update you all with some news about eggs and babies soon. Till then stay warm!