April Meeting Presentation

At our next monthly meeting on Wednesday 23 April 2014, Mick Grixti will be presenting a slideshow on South African wildlife.

This is a presentation of his recent trip to South Africa with some excellent photos of weavers, whydahs and other finches, some of which most bird lovers have never seen before.

There is also some excellent shots of other birds, and also some of big game. This presentation should not be missed, so please bring along some friends as all visitors are welcome.

Neville Simmons

March 2014 Finch Bizz

Editorial

I hope you are all well and surviving this roller-coaster ride we are having with the weather. One minute excessively hot, next moment pouring rain. I stand still for more than two minutes in my backyard; the grass almost grows over my head. I seem to be standing behind the mower continually at the moment. A concrete backyard is looking good at the moment.

How’s your breeding season been, as I said last month, local breeders are reporting mixed results. Some of our local Gouldian breeders reported very good results. Longtails, Nuns, Stars are some of the species that I have been offered in numbers, however foreign waxbill species have been far and few between.

Orange bird sale has come and gone, unfortunately due to ill heath I didn’t go this year which I was disappointed about as I look forward to Orange each year. Reports from others were a reasonable selection of finches there and they cleared well.

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