Cute coop!

Smart start.  Finally, a fam-friendly house for your little feathered friends.  Now those in urban settings can enjoy fresh eggs, too. 

Birds of a feather

Embedding of the video is disabled so click on the link to enjoy.  Such a sweet story.  Thank you, Connie!  

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Amazing hummingbird footage

"This is actually a pretty amazing story about a baby hummingbird found on a sidewalk. He couldn't fly, so I took him under my wing. At night, he would come home to our house for safety. During the day, he was in the backyard of the house near where I found him. About 4 days after I found him, I was holding him in my cupped hands when his mama came by to feed him. She had seen me around, I guess, because she just flew over, perched on my hand and then fed him. This happened a number of times, so I called a friend who is good with a video camera, and he came over to film some of the amazing goings on that I told him about."
 

Birds of a feather

We are a family of bird lovers.  We've raised many varieties in small indoor aviaries.  Until recently.  When our cute little zebra finches went into an all out mating frenzy.  The result was not pretty.  

Note the white sediment at the edge of the adorable little nesting basket.  Guano.  The more birds you have, the more of this stuff accumulates. 

After the baby making frenzy, we had a lot of what is known to cover entire islands in the Pacific.  We began to wonder if this, too, could happen to us.  It's great for the garden but not for interior spaces.

So, other than Oscar, our lisping parrot, who will undoubtedly outlive us/sorry kids, we are feeling mighty fine about enjoying finches in the Great Outdoors.  What WAS I thinking?  The benefits of attracting feathered friends to your garden far outweighs the up-close-and-personal pleasure of having them as pets inside your home.  Trust me.  I know and appreciate the difference.

Fly free from dawn to dusk, wonderfully colorful, fun feathered friends.