Rain Blossom Birds

09/09/2024

No matter how disheveled you are this Monday morning, you can accessorize with a few feathers and really lift the whole fit.

09/08/2024

This wonderful bird parent got one of my black cap babies, then added this little mooncheek boy as her companion this week. They are so cute I could cry.

“Hi, Brock,

I just had to say thank you so SO much for these 2 amazing babies. You've raised them so wonderfully and I feel so blessed to get to share my life with them.

Took a while to find the right name for little moon boy, but I finally found it to be Oberon🧚‍♂️ my little fairy king. He's such a graceful flyer!! Living with Emmy, I'd forgotten not every bird comes at you like a tiny torpedo lol. And I'm not worried about his appetite at all, he's CONSTANTLY eating! He's been just cool as a cucumber, super calm and sweet. Seemed to need no adjustment period whatsoever, just settled right in and acts like he owns the place now. He's also been doing a great job standing his ground when Emmy gets a bit pushy and I've only had to intervene a few times.

Photo update🤗 the plan was to do slow intros over several weeks but they would not stand for it! As you can see, they make excellent cuddle buddies. The combined mischief is harder to capture in photos, but rest assured, they're great partners in crime too.”

This is what makes this job (do I call it that? Doesn’t really feel like one) amazing 🤩

09/07/2024

A lone Elfy feather has appeared!

09/06/2024

Photographing babies: a story in three parts

09/05/2024

Ramen is a bit of a weird potato, but she’s our weird potato! 😆 We love her.

09/04/2024

My latest art piece: aratinga conures! All but the sulphur breasted conure, which sadly we don’t have (as far as I know) in US aviculture. But please enjoy this collection of screamy boys 😆

09/03/2024

Did you know that rose hips are a fantastic source of vitamin C for your birds? They’re low sugar and very similar in many ways to fruits they would forage in the wild. They’re also good for humans but most don’t find them as tasty.

If you’re foraging rose hips, be sure to only gather them from bushes you know don’t get sprayed with pesticide or exposed to large amounts of vehicle traffic, or might otherwise be growing somewhere contaminated.

09/02/2024

I have two beautiful sun conures available to reserve: one red factor and one wild type (normal). The red is $1250 and the wild type is $950. Subject to sales tax. Deposit is 50% to reserve, the rest due at pickup. Please reach out if you have any questions!

09/02/2024

The baby crimsons are stuffing their beaks with more and more solid food and less and less formula! It’ll be so sad when they’re all grown. They’re such precious babies, and so much fun. But it’s also a wonderful feeling to see them go to loving homes. 🥰

09/01/2024

Some nice time in the shad under an apple tree this afternoon 🥰

08/31/2024

UPDATE: new home found!
Courtesy post! Olympia, WA
One of my budgies from my last clutch is not settling in well in her new home and would like to find a new flock. She will come with a cage and some food to get her started. Please call or text Verna at (360) 704-9825 if you are interested. Rehoming fee does apply.

08/31/2024

I LOVE providing fresh forage and foliage for the birds. We did a fall cleanup last weekend and everyone got some engaging and all natural goodies to play with. Sinbad and Maya were particularly excited. Yum!

08/29/2024

Sound on for some Elfy cuteness 🥰

08/28/2024

I currently have three crimson bellied conures available for reservation. They are $950 each plus tax. A deposit of 50% reserves your baby for you. Please reach out if you’d like to reserve. Thank you 😊

08/28/2024

Bracelet day! I have decided to skip doing reservations for budgies until they are very close to weaned. Basically once they are eating on their own and I am monitoring them to make sure it stays that way, they will be available. I think this will be the best approach for my sanity, especially since these little ones mature so quickly 😆 Can’t wait to see what colors this clutch is. I only have one pair so there won’t be TOO many surprises!

08/27/2024

One of these things is not like the other… 😆 Three baby suns and a tiny crimson bellied baby, waiting patiently while I clean their house.

08/26/2024

Ramen snoozing on her back in my hand while the mooncheek brothers preen and keep watch. They love her so much. It’s adorable 🥰

08/25/2024

Baby mooncheek and baby crimson belly 🥹

08/24/2024

Big Mac is letting me know where I can go 😂 He and McCrispy might be contemplating yet another clutch! 😮

08/23/2024

The crimson babies are exploring their first cage. They still have Fort Conure to hide in when they feel the urge, but they are popping out, playing with food, checking out toys, and sipping water. The two oldest are perching as well. 🥰

08/22/2024

You versus the guy she told you not to worry about.

08/21/2024

I want to address something because it has come up a lot lately: if you have no experience hand raising baby birds and you have no one willing to mentor you CLOSELY AND IN PERSON, you do NOT need to be seeking an unweaned baby.

I get approached at least every couple of months by someone wanting to take a bird home before it is weaned. I’ve been given all kinds of reasons. There are breeders out there telling people they’ll have a more tame or more bonded bird. There are people who just don’t want to wait. There are people who want to use hand feeding to create a dependent relationship with the bird. There are people who just don’t want to pay for a weaned bird and expect to get an unweaned one for half the cost.

Hand feeding babies is an amazing experience. It’s fun and exciting to watch babies grow and develop. BUT things can go wrong, even if you do everything right. Babies can aspirate food, get infections, or even just have developmental hiccups. If you mess up temperature or thickness you can give a baby crop burn or sour crop, or just slowly starve the baby. As they start to wean, if you withdraw hand feeding too soon they’ll starve to death. And if you don’t have the experience you won’t even know there’s something wrong until it’s far too late to intervene.

And this doesn’t even include what is lost in social development in a baby that is raised by itself without learning to interact and play with other birds of its species.

Please, let breeders do our jobs. Let us raise your beautiful babies for you. And do not trust these people telling you to take a baby to hand feed if you don’t have all the experience (or support) needed, or if they’re not willing to sit with you and teach you how and supervise several feedings with you.

08/20/2024

Look at that face. If yall wanted a dusky this is the dusky to get. It’s familiar with babies and dogs and other birds. And my friend is amazing. Located in CA, shipping available.

This sweet boy is available and ready to go home, if interested DM me 💚

08/20/2024

Having deep conversations with the baby suns. 🥰

08/19/2024

Ferdinand the goblin man, supervising (interrupting) while I get computer work done.

08/19/2024

Little Ramen met and approved these two mooncheeks today. She’s so sweet 🥰

08/17/2024

I love how satisfied the one in the back always looks after being fed. I am waiting on DNA results which should come on Monday. Then I will be contacting my waitlist folks!

08/16/2024

This cheeky cutie is Augusta. He is a young peach fronted conure! We expect to have a lovely mate for him next year. Yet another species I have wanted to work with for several years. Welcome sweet boy!

08/15/2024

Happy National Relaxation Day! Remember to take a few deep breaths, have your favorite beverage, eat a few safflower seeds, chew on some sea grass mats, turn into a feathery loaf and stare into the void! 🥰

08/15/2024

Please welcome Rugosa and Xanthina! These two came all the way from Tennessee. Looking forward to working with this beautiful and dainty species of the Pyrrhura genus, the roseifrons conure.