Good morning Golly

Bombur the pint sized bantam taking on Rouko. Don’t think you’ll win this one Bombur.. 

Reeves pheasant chicks in a tree 

Golly in a bucket 

Babbus! They are like fuzzy bumblebees

Tilly was humping Cleetus today, it was too funny. I’ve seen her riding around on the quails’ backs before but didn’t realise she was trying to get it on.

I’m going past the petshop tomorrow, I might get her a boyfriend…

By the way I know I got her to tame her but I felt such a monster keeping her in a small cage indoors all the time that I just let her live in the aviary. She speaks fluent quail, partridge and sparrow now but seems to struggle with chicken and starling. She rolls the eggs that the quail lay, she sits in the rabbit hutch with Alors, she climbs in the blackcurrent bush, she flies about. It makes my heart a lot happier seeing her outdoors enjoying herself (and trying to mate quail…?) than being cooped up with me in the studio.

Alors turns into a literal fluff ball when she naps, it’s too cute.
I freaking wish she’d sit in her eggs! in saying that I have ten of them incubating due to hatch in a week or so…
Stop looking out of the window maddy, get back to work… Varnishing acetate… Fumey!

Here’s a video of Zoot having a dustbath and the quails doing what quails do best - mating. Constantly. They are the RANDIEST little birds I have ever come across.

Hahaha haaa haaaaaa!! My goose egg definitely 100% has a chick developing inside it!! I’m going to have a baby goooooooooose

Also 13 of the pheasant eggs are developing along with all nine of the partridge eggs. Only three of the quail eggs are developing though.

It was so hot and sunny I took the little bantam chick outside to teach it to scratch. It had a blast and ate many bugs including a may bug and some woodlice. Rob planted some radishes a while ago and they needed to be thinned, so while it was doodling around adventuring I picked some little radishes!