Our birds

I've blogged a bit about our birds lately, and thought it must be time I posted some photos. None of finches because we don't have them anymore. But above are our quails -- you can see three adults (two grey and one brown) and three babies (both grey) if you look carefully. The brown male got away while I was at Philip Island -- that was the Gadget Man's fault -- actually most of our escapees are due to the Gadget Man! The quails are quite amazing because they emerge from their eggs with feathers and running around, though with the awkwardness at first of new foals, but quite unlike canaries, which are featherless, have their eyes closed and just sit there and cheep for food.

And seeing as I had my head in the aviary and the zoom on to get close to the birds, below is one of our canaries too! None of the birds are particularly tame, so they don't let anyone too close. This year we've only had one baby canary survive. Their were plenty of eggs, but the finches kept rolling them out of the nests.

Forgot to take a photo of the pigeon -- it must've been in hiding in the foliage -- but it's only a temporary resident while its wing heals.