Peep & Cheep Aviary

08/13/2024

10/11/2023

Sorry it’s been a pretty quite summer!!! With the two evacuations and losing some birds and fertile eggs during the evacuation and the stress of it all I have been mostly trying to leave the birds alone. I will try on days off next week to get some pictures of some new birds outside in the Aviary (yup the weather has been so nice they are still outside loving life!!) This is our only survivor of our baby Gouldians and he’s getting close to being done his first molt. But I thought I would share his colouring. I will share more when he is fully molted. He loves to sing and sit at the front of the cage and watch your every move quizzically. 😂

06/10/2023

Well once again we are evacuated!! It’s not looking good for our house. It’s about 2km away from my house heading straight for it. Please rain!!! We have all the birds and the turtle but the Europeans and zebras have abandoned their eggs they were sitting on so that really sucks!!! (We brought the nests and everything) But at least I still have them and hopefully we will have a home we can go back to so they can hopefully successfully hatch some and raise them!

06/05/2023

Ohhhhh fingers crossed!!! Last year my European green finches didn’t give me any babies. Here’s to hoping this year is better!!!

06/03/2023

Well Wednesday was a very sad day in our house. We came home from gymnastics to find one baby bird had died. Then we came back later in the day from mama and papas house and found another baby bird had died. Not sure what happened to them?? So far the last baby is doing awesome though. It even made it up onto a perch today!!!

05/30/2023

Awww they are starting to try to fly. So cute!!! My toddler got in the video so had to cut it short then they stopped so just a small clip sorry!

Before people jump on me… no there is no birds up in the top cage. They are in the outside aviary!! Once the babies are independent I will open up the whole cage for them to use. But right now I’m trying to not disturb them to much so mom don’t abandon them.

05/25/2023

And they are all out of the nest!! Woohoo!! Don’t mind the messy cage trying to disturb them as least as possible after all the evacuation moves. One definitely is lighter then the other two so fingers crossed one is a yellow 🤞Come on first molt!!

05/21/2023

One baby Gouldian has flew out of the nest today. The other two I am sure are not far behind!! One is looking a lot lighter then the other two. When I had 4 babies the Facebook groups suggested I had three green backs and one yellow but I thought the one they said was yellow was the one that died. It was hard to tell in the nest without disturbing them to much. Guess I am just gonna have to wait and see after they have their first molt. The waiting game is so hard lol

05/11/2023

Unfortunately we lost one baby in the recent wildfire evacuation, but we still have three!!! I wasn’t sure how we would end up after taking the nest and birds and moving it all to another portable cage. The other mom abandoned the eggs she was sitting on to so lost those as well (there was one developing egg) but I am very grateful to still have the three as I was thinking I would lose them all.

04/28/2023

Came home from night shift to such a beautiful sound!!! Looks like 4 baby gouldians have hatched!!! My first ever time having gouldian baby’s!!! Was never successful with these breeding in the past!!! Pretty excited right now!!

And the second mom has been sitting on some eggs the last few days. Not all are good but I didn’t want to pull them out and disturb the mom sitting on the other eggs in the other nest beside it.

04/07/2023

The Fawn black breasted zebra finches and the European green finches made it outside to their summer home today. Still have some work to do on their home once it warms up a bit and can hook the garden hose up (hose and scrub it down) and new branches once we can get into the bush and get some new ones. But they are sure loving it and singing away!!

03/26/2023

So yesterday we added some new feather friends to our flock! Woohoo new bird day!! We got two female gouldians and as I was picking the one up from a lady I happened to see she had a pair of cordon blue finches. Cordon blue and Strawberry finches have been on my wish list for three years!!! I got pretty excited and asked her if she ever has babies with them? And she asked well do you want that pair? So needless to say they came home with me!!! Woohoo down to one bird on my wishlist now.

03/22/2023

These are located at the Hinton & District SPCA if anyone is interested

02/10/2023

Rio and Sully are on a breeding holiday at our friend Mads house having the time of their lives I am sure!! But we are sure missing them at our house!!!
(We clearly have to find new names for them cause we are finding out they are not both males like we were told)

11/01/2022

Last weekend we brought our birds in from their outside aviary. Our house is once again full of birds lol.
I do have 5 females and 1 male of the Fawn breasted birds (the brown colour ones) from this spring/summer hatch looking for a new family if anyone is interested in add to their family.

07/14/2022

My gouldian cage is all set up in the house. Decided this year I am gonna try keeping them in the house and see if I have better luck breeding them. One female is already checking out her nest.