Willow Fence Aviary & Invertebrates

07/11/2024

First baby Peach Front Conure has hatched.

07/09/2024

07/09/2024

The Dilute male and Normal female Rockpebblers have produced a clutch. Unfortunately she doesn't like nestboxes, and has decided to nest on the ground. 3 eggs are developing so far, hopefully the other 2 are fertile as well.

06/14/2024

Haven't posted in a while, but quite a bit happening in the aviary right now. This picture is simple, but it speaks volumes. Finally got an egg from the pair of Peach-front conures. This year I have alao got all 3 pairs of Rockpebblers on eggs. Took 4 seasons for them to finally settle in and get comfortable enough. The one pair produces reliably each yeqr, but other 2 pairs couldn't settle in. But it appears all is good with them now.

03/30/2024

First Formica podzolica queen has her first 2 nanitic workers now.

03/04/2024

Not the greatest picture, but this is a Formica podzolica queen collected last fall. She now has 3 pupae and a half dozen larvae. In a week or 2 she will have her first nanitic workers. These workers will go out and collect food. At that point, the colony will really grow. Currently the queen is living on reserves and feeding the first young from these reserves.

05/24/2023

First 2 eggs from the Abyssinian lovebirds, hopefully they are fertile.

04/24/2023

Received 3 Red Turtle Doves a few weeks ago, 2 males, 1 female. Just put them outside today, hopefully they will produce a few young this year. Males were busy cooing, so that's always a good sign.

04/23/2023

Staining crew is hard at it getting boards prepped to make frames for the new flights.

04/22/2023

And we're off, first Senegal dove egg of the season.

04/09/2023

Not the greatest picture, but I picked up this pair of Australian Crested Doves today from the POAA spring auction.

04/02/2023

New aviaries arrived, a bit of assembly required........

02/19/2023

Started up the incubator today, 300 plus chicken eggs to start off.

12/24/2022

Just picked up a silver golden pheasant male. A bit of a different mutation from the more common yellow mutation.

11/01/2022

Flights are filling up. Still have a few lovebirds, budgies and doves to come in.

10/28/2022

Putting the flights together in the shop, so we can start moving birds inside for the winter.

10/09/2022

Picked up a group of Mountain Quail today, hoping to produce a few young next spring. They are in the middle of a molt, so they look a little rough.

09/21/2022

This pair of Peach Fronted Conures as well as a pair of Green Cheek Conures (who didn't want their pictures taken) arrived last night from BC.