eagerly eaten and fed to the babies. The wild Budgerigar is green which gives it good camouflage and some protection from the native hawks that predate the flocks, some of which are large if the rains have been plentiful. It is the availability of the rains that stimulate the birds into breeding condition, whereas our wild birds in the UK are generally stimulated by increased daylight which indicates the weather will warm and then there will be an increase in insects and other food to help our birds raise healthy youngsters.


08 BIRD SCENE


During the summer of 2016 I decided to


dedicate one of my twelve foot long outside aviaries to a colony of Budgerigars and once I saw the excellent stock owned by my good friend Gerald Massey I knew where my new birds were going to come from! At our summer show at Stafford I booked four pairs of 2016 bred youngsters for delivery at The National Exhibition in October. When the day of delivery arrived I was very excited and really looking forward to seeing the birds that Gerald had selected for me, I was not disappointed because they were


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