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Jayburd
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awesome pics spanna 
Julian
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Birdwatcher and finch-keeper.
Feel free to check out my photos here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lewinsrail/
And my birding antics here: http://worthtwointhebushbirding.blogspot.com.au/
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Myzomela
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It's got a leg ring Tiaris so I'm guessing captive. Agreed- the best coloured chat I've seen in a long time!Tiaris wrote:Is the Chat an aviary bird? & if so what's fed to him maintain the brilliant colour?
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spanna
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Yeah the chat is one of poitta's. From memory it was on some canary red factor... but I may be wrong so you'll need to wait for poitta to confirm.
The wren is a wild one though. Was so friendly I had to take a step back to get my camera to focus on it!
The wren is a wild one though. Was so friendly I had to take a step back to get my camera to focus on it!
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Pete Sara
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Well do I give away my secrets. A can of pillar box red from mitre 10 does the trick....
...the chats get a few drops of canary red factor mix in the nectur every second day in a shot glass, but I also have in the aviary a small ruby salt bush or two in the cage , its hard to stop the other birds from eating its succulent leaves so its caged off. I pick the fruit and place them in a dish for them to eat when ripe, also I have about 5 eromphila plants in there two of which are red flowering so if that has any thing to do with it
last but not least the soft food I place in is wombaroo insectavore mix with danny fav spiralina added, I am not to sure how much they eat of it, but he is rather bright, she has some colour as well, my success hasn't been great this ( my first with them ) yet as everytime I thought they had a nest I found either plumheads , masked or painted finches on the nest they had built, so I removed all but the painteds the other week as they had babbies in a nest and fingers crossed as they are building a new one in some dried brush, I put my money on the blue bush in there for a nest but not yet,( yet another plant diamond firetails love to eat) maybe next season.....pete
...the chats get a few drops of canary red factor mix in the nectur every second day in a shot glass, but I also have in the aviary a small ruby salt bush or two in the cage , its hard to stop the other birds from eating its succulent leaves so its caged off. I pick the fruit and place them in a dish for them to eat when ripe, also I have about 5 eromphila plants in there two of which are red flowering so if that has any thing to do with it
last but not least the soft food I place in is wombaroo insectavore mix with danny fav spiralina added, I am not to sure how much they eat of it, but he is rather bright, she has some colour as well, my success hasn't been great this ( my first with them ) yet as everytime I thought they had a nest I found either plumheads , masked or painted finches on the nest they had built, so I removed all but the painteds the other week as they had babbies in a nest and fingers crossed as they are building a new one in some dried brush, I put my money on the blue bush in there for a nest but not yet,( yet another plant diamond firetails love to eat) maybe next season.....pete
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finchbreeder
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With this wet spring you never know Pete. Luck may be with you. Those of you guessing names have forgotten Redwing.
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Diane
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At last! I posted earlier about the lady in the blue floral top. Got them all now!finchbreeder wrote:Those of you guessing names have forgotten Redwing.
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Take a bow Deb and Di. Your guessing skills are pretty good. 
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