Well I am writing this heartbroken . We were at Central coast Saturday night babysitting Sunday morning my neighbors rang to say there are little finches flying around everywhere. We live Sutherland shire and there was terrible winds my aviary is 30 ft long and has been there for 15 yrs the wind shifted it off the foundations and out of 62 finches 45 got out. Neighbors were wonderful trying to get them but as we live across the road from bush most of them flew there where the bigger birds chased them . I managed to get 2 male Orange Breasted back and 1 Red Parrot finch. There were 5 baby Red Parrots in nest have dad but mum got out.
I lost all my Red Browed most of my Orange Breasted, Ruddies, Double Bar ,Stars ,Red Parrot finches . Was upsets me the most is I never split up my pairs done of them have been together for 7 years.
These birds gave me so much pleasure watching them built their nest raise their babies. As other bird lovers you can imagine how I feel.
