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Holiday boarding for all indoor avian species. I also do rescue work for any birds in need. 💜

05/11/2024

Discussing perch politics before bedtime. 🥰

31/10/2024

It seems that this Halloween, Ted and Nancy are up to nesting tricks, while the rest of the Finch Flock wants treats. 🤣🤷🏼‍♀️

Happy Halloween everyone! 🎃🧙🏼

25/10/2024

Very important info from Fab Finches as usual. I have a zeb hen (Nancy) who is prone to binding and a slight prolapse even though she gets all her nutritional requirements met, and isn’t overweight. 🥺

Regardless of bird, if they are female you *should* know the signs and symptoms of egg binding and know what to do when it happens.

24/10/2024

Just two female lemon engineers (aka Nellie and Sunny) enjoying their afternoon sun break, after a hard morning consulting over the design of a new play perch for them. 🥰💜

They have been paid for their project contributions and squeaky opinions in millet, sweetcorn and broccoli which they accepted as graciously as always. 🥰🌾🌽🥦

20/10/2024

Shadow has clearly exhausted himself with all day zoomies and a full crop before bed, while Kelly looks rather full tonight too. 🥺😍

Nellie below looks like she’s plotting something (a fridge raid for broccoli tomorrow knowing Our Nell) and Nancy is looking rather fluffy and ready for bed tonight too. 🥰

Rusty clearly also just wanted to show his beautiful tail tonight and not his face, as he’s still mad at me from his nail trim yesterday. 🤷🏼‍♀️

This is a standard day at Tweet Retreats aka sleepy bedtime birdies after lots of exercise, baths, fresh veggies and some seeds. 😋
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So book in now before you go away to do your Christmas* shopping in the next two months knowing full well your bird is going to be spoilt, happy and loved while they stay with me. 🥰

*I will be blocking certain dates over Christmas and New Years out as I will be spending it with the beepers, my family and loved ones too. I will make a separate post about what days/weeks are available for boarding this week.

17/10/2024

The struggle is daily and real! 🤣🙈

* Roma, Bonnie, Chipette, Sunny, Shadow, Ted, Tear, Rusty and Drew mainly. 🤣🙈

15/10/2024

Hey ,

Just a quick note to apologise for the lack of updates the past 10 days, and any slow replies to any DMs. I’m currently unwell with a stinking cold which has set my surgery recovery back a little as coughing hurts my abdomen - a lot. 😔

Please bear with me, I will hopefully be back to full health soon. 🙏🏻 The flock are doing well though and causing lots of mischief with their antics, and giving my boyfriend, their Dadther, a few grey hairs for a change! 🤣

I’m resting a lot and eating my body weight in chicken noodle soup (and pigs in blankets) to help me feel better. 😅

Thanks for your patience and understanding while I am still recovering from my surgery and now this lurgy. ❤️💜

PS: it was Roma’s 1 year gotcha day on Saturday from when she came into the finch sanctuary with her group of friends. 🥺 She spent the day zooming, cuddling with Ozbob and her other finch family and of course destroying a rather large chunk of millet as a treat. 🥰

05/10/2024

Ever get the feeling that you’re being watched? 👀

Nellie was perched on the window sill in the conservatory Thursday afternoon, part snoozing in the sun and part keeping an eye on me for me preparing her* broccoli. 🥦

*The canaries all think they own the broccoli and all fall out over it, even though they get three chunks to stop squabbles. 🙄😅 Only when broccoli isn’t involved they are the sweetest to each other. 🥺🥰

I love how cozy Nellie looks here. She, like the others love coming to their Dadther’s house as all day conservatory zoomies are the best and most tiring it seems. 🥰💜

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Hopefully another week or so of healing (I’m already to start to feel much better thankfully), then I’ll look at taking on some boarders again. I’m still not allowed to heavy lift or drive just yet. 😔

30/09/2024

The face of zero regrets from Ozzie when he was finally captured after outsmarting me for 2 hours. 🤣🙈🤬

Today Old Man Ozbob decided to stretch his arthritic wings and come out of the cage in the conservatory. The only issue is, he can’t get the lift to get back up into the cage, so I have to catch him in a net and place him back in the cage. 🥺

Only, the little bugger has cottoned on to this, and now goes under the sofa whenever he sees said net or me step in to there. 🙄

I tried EVERYTHING to coax Ozzie out. Including a millet bribe. But as soon as he saw me, he shot off back under the sofa again. I think he knows I can’t currently lay down on the floor after my surgery to look under the sofa, or move as quickly as he can for an old man bird. 🤬

Fast forward 2 hours later (and a lot of curse words on my part), I finally caught him to him put him back in his cage. And 5 mins later my boyfriend comes casually strolling home from the dentist to see me stuck on the conservatory floor with a zebra finch in my hand questioning my life choices. 🙈

I swear this is the worse game of hide and seek I’ve ever played. That I lose EVERY GODDAMN TIME. 🤣🙈

Ozzie the zebra finch 1 - Mum 0

27/09/2024

Three cute, and very sleepy beepers. Aka L-R: Chipette, Ozzie and Roma. 🥰💜

I couldn’t resist snapping a photo of the two girls cuddling Ozzie before bed time as it’s clear they love him and each other dearly and look so comfy for bed time. 💜

And from the look on Ozzie’s face he absolutely loves Chipette and Roma cuddling him too. 🤣🥰

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I’m feeling in so much pain today and recovering from my surgery more slowly than I expected too, but seeing these three beepers all cubby, fluffy and cute is helping me manage it a lot.

As I have stated before, until I am fully healed I’m not taking any clients on. Again this is for insurance purposes and my own and client’s safety/wellbeing.

25/09/2024

The face Ted pulled when he heard from his Dadther that I was allowed home from hospital today! 🥳🥰🤣

Their Dadther has let them get away with so much more nonsense while I’ve been recovering in hospital after my surgery. But now I’m coming home they’ve promised to be on best behaviour for 0.000001 seconds before normal mischief is resumed! 🤣

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As stated on my previous post, I won’t be taking bookings for boarders for a few weeks until I’m fully healed and can resume my normal activities without assistance safely. That’s for my health and wellbeing but also clients safety and insurance purposes.

24/09/2024

Mumther is in hospital after having an operation yesterday and of course we’re missing and worrying about her like mad. 🥰🥺

Shadow and Kelly are letting us, Roo and Nell, snuggle them - that’s how much we’re on best behaviour for our Dadther while mum recovers in hospital.

The others are behaving too, except Bonnie as she refused to share millet this morning and made Ozzie and Sunny wait in a corner before Dadther made Bonnie share on the promise of confiscation if she didn’t. 🤣😡😤

Dadther has even said he’s cleaning our cage tomorrow and I’m sure he’ll clean it to the great standard our Mumther does too. 🥰🙏🏻

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Note from Mum: I feel rubbish and won’t be taking on boarders for a few weeks as I’m not even allowed to lift a half filled kettle until my abdomen is healed internally and all the bruising is gone. However once I am ok to resume normal activities I will be taking on clients again.👍🏻

21/09/2024

Moulting time is a hard time* for the little beeps especially Bonnie being her first full moult. 🥺

However Aunty Tear and Uncle Drew are there to literally hold Bonnie’s foot and guide her through it, under the watchful eye of the canaries, her mum Nancy, and Aunties Roma, Kelly and Chips who is pulling sassy a face in the background. 🤣🥰

*They’re getting extra supplements, veggies, egg food, splashy baths, and time with their full spectrum bulb to help make it as easy as possible for them. 🥰

18/09/2024

All behaving, sharing and cuddling before bedtime last night. Even Shadow shared “his perch” with two of the canaries (Nellie and Rusty) again. 💜🥰

The only time the flock is in their cage is to sleep, or get food/water. They have foraging stations and food/water dotted about their room that they zoom round, and play in all day. 🥰

Bonnie in the 2nd photo still loves to cuddle with Ted and Nancy (parents) but is restless currently as she’s going through her first full adult moult. 🥺

Sunny has found her spot in the big cage too and you can tell from the sass on her face, she loves it (and posing for the camera too)! 🤣🥰

12/09/2024

Rusty and Sunny chilling before bed last night. Nellie was too busy having a snack before bedtime to join in for a snoozie selfie! 🤣🥰

I’ve had Sunny just over a week but it feels like she’s been a flock member forever due to how quickly she has bonded with the flock. 🥰🥺

11/09/2024

Today is Wet Chicken Wednesday! 🤣

Kelly, Roma and Bonnie decided that bath time was more trying to drown themselves time, and got so soaked they couldn’t move/fly. 🙈🤣

All three, like the others, are currently moulting so bath time is even more important than usual. It helps loosen old feathers and get rid of any dirt/excess preening oil they might have on the new ones growing through as well. Which in Kelly’s case is helping lots as she’s FINALLY growing new wing feathers after her attack back in March! And in Bonnie’s case she’s going through her first moult - which is making her grumpier than usual. 🙈🥺

I think they enjoyed themselves today at bath time, don’t you?! 🥰

05/09/2024

Sunny is settling in well. She’s sassy, cheeky, mischievous, LOUD and really friendly - and a great addition to the flock as everyone loves her and has welcomed her so well already. 🥰🥳

Her cage has had a glow up (new cage, platforms, toys and perches) and even though she was a little anxious about it last night when she went in after zoomies as obviously it looked strange, she now seems to love it. 🥰

She’s also bonding well with the others, especially Nellie, Bonnie and Rusty and loves playing with her new toys from A Bird A Day - safe toys for birds. via Budgie Rescue - Wirral so much so she told some of the other beepers off for coming near them just now.. 🤣

Sunny is really not letting her disability bother her either which is so awesome to see. Disabled birds deserve just as much as a chance as non disabled ones in my eyes. 🥰

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Bath time at finch HQ staring Nancy, Ted and Rusty. 🛁🫧 As they have all started their moult, baths are especially important to keep their feathers in good condition, keep them from feeling itchy and scratchy as new pin feathers grow in and stop skin conditions from occurring. In the winter they get a luke warm bath but in the summer like now, when their room is super warm, it’s on the colder side to help keep them cool. Birds overheat quite easily in hot weather as unlike humans, they cannot regulate their body temperature. 🫠🥵 It’s also very fun to watch them bath as when birds bath it’s a case of 99% getting the water everywhere and 1% actually getting clean. 🤣🤷🏼‍♀️

Here’s the difference in my nesting male birds: Drew - tenderly preens Tear (his baby momma to be) while she’s snuggled in the nest, before taking over brooding duties and sits on the nest 95% of the day as Tear has been on them overnight. Also has a wander into the front room to stretch his wings and find a few feathers but soon comes back when requested. Ted - goes and finds as much random crap he can get his beak around to stuff the nest with, that Nancy his baby momma to be chucks out again. Then leaves her sitting on the eggs 95% of the day as he can’t sit still on them, for more than 0.5 seconds. Then goes to wind up Drew, or the others, attacks everything as it is either nesting material or he just enjoys being destructive just for the hell of it! Also likes attacking the hanging on their bedroom door as he knows the rattling winds me up. Gatecrashes zoom meetings and beeps loudly wanting to give whomever I’m speaking to his 5c. Gets “TED!” shouted a lot too - ignores me of course. I swear to god Ted is the most ADHD bird I’ve ever owned. It’s not even 10 am and I need rum! 🤣🙈

Shadow just watching the Great Tits and Blue Tits in the tree outside. 🥺🥰 Shads loves this spot and every morning will fly to it and sit there for ages just watching the wildies and the world go by! He also loves to sing his little song as seen in the video, to the wildies too. Yes, that is Rusty my male canary, singing LOUDLY in the background. 🤣🥰

Volume up! 🎶🎵 Rusty today is singing his little heart out. He’s one happy canary. 🥰🧡 He’s been feeding Nellie too which is a sign of bonding in canaries. He’s such a good husbird to her. 💛 Used an old video of Rusty singing as he’s a bit camera shy today. 🤣🤷🏼‍♀️