A nice start to the new year
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 9:37 pm
Yesterday while outside doing the rounds of my aviary birds, I noticed there was no sign of my breeding pair of Rainbow Lorikeets. I started to look around in a panic, seeing if the hole digging dog had done more of her handy work, when the lories came out of the nestbox.
Relieved that all birds accounted for, I took a peek inside the nest and saw 2 lori eggs! That little surprise came as a total shock to me as I had not seen the lories displaying any behaviour or interest in the nest, nor had I noticed them 'missing' until yesterday.
Normally when I am outside the conures make such a fuss that the lories are there to greet me as I walk by. So it is a bit hard to catch them in the box. I usually see the male wooing his girl but not this time.
I think they used the cover of the drizzley weather we had of late, to do the 'mango tango'. ;)
I thought she may have had a break as she had 3 clutches in fairly quick succession last year. I have her 2 chicks from the last clutch inside ready for sale now.
I left these 2 in the nest until they were fully feathered, then removed them for the last 2 weeks of hand rearing and taming, thinking that the hen would have a break. I did handle the chicks while in the nest so they didn't take much to quieten down at all.
Looks like more little flitter flutter sounds of little wings again soon.
Relieved that all birds accounted for, I took a peek inside the nest and saw 2 lori eggs! That little surprise came as a total shock to me as I had not seen the lories displaying any behaviour or interest in the nest, nor had I noticed them 'missing' until yesterday.
Normally when I am outside the conures make such a fuss that the lories are there to greet me as I walk by. So it is a bit hard to catch them in the box. I usually see the male wooing his girl but not this time.
I think they used the cover of the drizzley weather we had of late, to do the 'mango tango'. ;)
I thought she may have had a break as she had 3 clutches in fairly quick succession last year. I have her 2 chicks from the last clutch inside ready for sale now.
I left these 2 in the nest until they were fully feathered, then removed them for the last 2 weeks of hand rearing and taming, thinking that the hen would have a break. I did handle the chicks while in the nest so they didn't take much to quieten down at all.
Looks like more little flitter flutter sounds of little wings again soon.