Well the Finchme editor seems to be having problems so I’ll keep this short. Nothing much has been happening in my aviaries over the last month as most species are molting. The cut-throats of course never seem to stop breeding, which is good because my male owl died and has to be replaced so I only got two young out of him. I think there is also a pair of baby shaft-tails too but I’m a little reluctant to investigate after stumbing across them a couple of days ago.

I went to Cartimar yesterday (May 12) and was almost tempted by a “proven pair” of diamond firetails at stall #4. At P7500 it was a bit expensive and for me the fact that the hen was a yellow mutation turned me off.

Goldwing owner Dwight told me that he would be importing canaries, gold-finches and red-faced parrotfinches. His order should come in by June which means I’ll miss out because I’m on home leave back to Australia.

While home I’ll be gathering information for an upcoming BIRDS forum to be held on August 16 at 1:00PM at the Chow King at Liana’s at Passig. The plan is that I’ll be talking about Finches, Danny Ang on African love birds and Milet Escalona will tlak about Budgies. I’ve got some great pric for my PowerPointpresentation so lets hope i can get some equally impressive content by the time I’m on.

If this editor starts working again I’ll elaborate more but until then Cheers.

Greg