baby orange breasts

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baby orange breasts

Post by mickp » Fri May 02, 2008 3:39 am

until today I had managed to stay well away from the nest of one of my pairs of orange breasted waxbills.
it got the better of me today though and I just had to peek.
was certain that there were young in there from the amount of livefood the parents had been eating.
so I was very happy to find what looked like 3 or 4 little ones all covered in down staring back at me :D :D
got away from the nest real fast then (didnt want to though lol)
am going to wait at least 7 days before going back may even try to go longer if I can
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Post by Kiko » Fri May 02, 2008 6:45 am

That is Sooooo exciting, congratulations, please please post pics if you can later on. OBWB are one of my favs!
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Post by L in Ontario » Fri May 02, 2008 7:54 am

Ooooh how wonderful for you - congratulations!
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Post by dfcauley » Fri May 02, 2008 1:55 pm

My pair built a nest in the top of a silk tree. They didn't accept any nest box I gave them. I was so afraid it wasn't secure enough that I went and bought a canary nest to support it and put under the one they built.
I looked into their nest almost every day. (I am so bad) They successfully raised all three even with my interference.

Good luck and keep us posted!
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Post by Sally » Sat May 03, 2008 12:51 am

That's great news, mickp! It's so hard not to peek!
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Post by Aussiefinchfanatic » Mon May 05, 2008 2:39 am

congrats mickp good news how are they coming along ?
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