Venus and Jupiter

 Venus above the Moon with Jupiter below

 Venus and the Moon

 Pleiades star cluster above the moon and Venus

Pleiades star cluster

(pity about light pollution preventing a longer exposure)

Spring is the air

Daffodils at Furness Abbey

And the parakeets are getting ready....



Golden yellow

It's looking very colourful in the green aviary with my pair of golden yellow turks (yellow opalines). The mate I got for Scar has an impressive amount of red feathers.

Hopefully Scar (below) will have better luck this year with this hen.

To add to the colour in the green aviary, I have a newly formed pair of bourkes.  The rosa / lutino cock I bred last year and my new lutino hen.

Cock Rosa

Lutino Hen

Also in the aviary are the bengalese fiches

The male, I think.





www.grassparakeet.co.uk

My website now has the domain name www.grassparakeet.co.uk

Nest box live

My nest box cam can now be accessed direct from this blog by clicking the link above

Bengalese

Some pictures of me new bengalese finches.

I don't know much about these finches apart from that they are captive hybrids (they don't occur in the wild) and are fairly easy to keep and most importantly are reasonably quiet.  I don't even know what colours these are.....fawn & white, fawn ?? Or if I have a cock and hen.  I think that I have heard one singing (the cock) which I believe is the only way to sex them.