up signs with the female Bronze wing so I had to with a heavy heart… (Not!) find a female Blue head to make up the correct pairings after splitting them up. I took a risk when I found 2 Blue heads that were around 1.5 years old and were no longer wanted, they were fed mostly on seed, overweight and a little neglected. I had no idea on their sex and knew they were siblings but took the risk, bought them and sent off feathers for DNA, luckily I had a female and male. I took the birds to my local zoo trained veterinary surgeons in Kent and ‘Mark’ the owner again luckily said he would love a Blue head Pionus as the perfect pet parrot for his kids so the spare male went off to live in the best possible place a specialist zoo trained vet’s house and gets spoilt and loved rotten! The three of them lived together for a


short while and Ozzy tried his luck pairing with both females, the other Blue head female which I had kept and was still quite overweight with bad looking feathers for some time I named ‘Mrs.O’ settled in well and was the best Pionus in temperament ever, this must be down to the very good habits of the Nola breeders in the New Forest where she came from. As quickly as the new male Bronze wing was ready for me I collected ‘Sixx’ and now I had my perfect foursome, split into 2 cages which was not so harmonious at first with Ozzy calling to Von D and Von D ignoring Sixx, I knew it would be difficult to do it this way but also realised it was just a matter of time before the right bonds were made to the right birds of the right species, luckily I was correct. Unluckily for me my bond with my girlfriend broke down leaving me with a


10 BIRD SCENE


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