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Picking Pairs On A Snowy Sunday
Cage & Aviary Birds
|February 28, 2018
DONALD SKINNER-REID puts his spare time to good use deciding on his Scots, Belgian and Giboso breeding tactics.
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CANARIES
EDINBURGH lies on the River Forth (which looks like the sea) in the south-east of Scotland and is sheltered from a lot of winter weather. This year, however, we did have snow and enough of it to make a trip out on foot not possible. So, how better to employ my time on a snowy Sunday than by playing with the birds?
I enjoy the time I spend with my canaries. My stepson asked if I knew them all (52 currently) and I said from the ring numbers I could picture each bird, although, admittedly, I might sometimes struggle with their parentage, save for my good records. I note each nest as the eggs are laid (I don’t remove and set the eggs) and I mark in my wee book each hatching date and the ring number for each individual in each nest. Hatching dates are stuck on the cages.
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