any problems


and did not appear to worry about the low temperatures that they experienced even the low night temperatures that we experienced in the month of May. Their aviary is 10 feet long and protected on three sides with sheeting, ¾ of the roof is covered in glass fibre sheeting which allows light through, the remaining ¼ has only Twilweld and this overhangs the last 2’ 6” of the aviary giving access both to rain and natural daylight. I hung their nest box up on 1st February


22 BIRD SCENE


2015 but as the weather was still cold there was no interest shown at this time. My Indian Ringnecks who are fairly early breeders were in and out of their boxes but I was not too concerned with the lack of breeding interest from the Pennant’s as it was still early for them, I tend to find that Pennant’s are far from the earliest breeders in my collection. It was not until early June 2015 that I noticed the hen was in and out of the nest box and I left them alone with no nest inspection. Soon the hen was rarely seen although from the demeanour of the cock I was


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