My Red Avadavat preparind the nest

[Myzomela]

Congratulations Ivo.
Love the photos.
It always amazes me how you Europeans manage to not only inspect the nests, but leg ring them and photograph them without suffering nest desertions.
Here in Australia this is a topic of hot debate. Perhaps our strains of finches just have not become accustomed to it yet- probably a cage-breeding vs aviary breeding issue.

By the way, your hen in the first photos appears to have a particular dark and bolder eyestripe. Has anyone else noticed this or do I just need to look at our hen red avadavats/strawberries more closely?

[Ivo]

Congratulations Ivo.
Love the photos.
It always amazes me how you Europeans manage to not only inspect the nests, but leg ring them and photograph them without suffering nest desertions.
Here in Australia this is a topic of hot debate. Perhaps our strains of finches just have not become accustomed to it yet- probably a cage-breeding vs aviary breeding issue.

By the way, your hen in the first photos appears to have a particular dark and bolder eyestripe. Has anyone else noticed this or do I just need to look at our hen red avadavats/strawberries more closely?

Thank you for the comment. Here in Europe many of the birds that we have created are in captivity, while there they live directly in their habitats and many must be captured which makes it difficult. Here the St Helena waxbill and difficult of ringing common and reject the children because parents are caught in nature, all the other birds are not native species as soon as they are in captivity and more docile. Not noticed in eyestripe, wants to say anything, this difference in eye'?

[finchbreeder]

So pleased for you that you have 5 young. Hope that everything continues to go well.
LML

[finches247]

Congrats

[mattymeischke]

Beautiful birds, well done.
Thanks for the photos.

[Canary]

More great photos.

Good job with the chicks, and they are all well fed by the look of their crops.

[Ivo]

the first off nest...

http://i837.photobucket.com/albums/zz29 ... 14/100.jpg

[finches247]

Good Work.Congratulations

[Finch_Breeder]

Congrats