Les Rance, Editor, The Parrot Society UK | www.theparrotsocietyuk.org


t the time of writing this introduction on 1st July it is a particularly hot day I am just pleased that I am in a cool office and suspect that many who have ventured to Wimbledon to view the tennis wish they were with me! Before leaving for the office I took the precautionary move of taking the lids off the nest boxes where there were broods of well feathered youngsters just to make sure they do not suffer from sun stroke as the heat rises in their boxes, the tops will go back on around 8.00 pm this evening. Generally bird keeping is a relaxing past time, however, for hobbyist breeders that keep their birds in aviaries through the breeding season heat weather can also be a worrying time. Those who keep their stock in breeding rooms where they can easily cool the building are in a far more satisfactory position. In this edition of Bird Scene I have both Birds of Paradise and the popular Budgerigar, I hope you enjoy reading both these articles. This is now the twenty forth edition of Bird Scene, how quickly four years can pass when you are working on project – the first FREE on-line bird


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magazine produced in the UK. At 48 pages this is quite a big read! Every time we post the Parrot Society magazine I cringe at the cost. Postal costs appear to have increased far faster than inflation and if The Royal Mail are not careful they will find that their income will reduce even further as people and businesses send less and less by conventional means. These costs obviously affect bird clubs when the show schedules have to be posted to potential exhibitors and equally it affects the exhibitors when they return their entries. In addition how much longer will bird clubs be able to afford to post magazines to their members? This must be a great worry to many club officials. Fortunately with an e-magazine we do not have this problem, or for that matter the cost of colour printing. As a result of increases to the costs of both postage and printing I am really pleased that we decided to produce Bird Scene as a FREE e-magazine. We have learnt a great deal over the past four years about this way of communicating with bird enthusiasts and I am sure that this knowledge will become more and more


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