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So we hope you all had a Happy Christmas and Santa came to you's.  Sorry Jo's not been up to snuff keeping you informed, but claims she had been trying to get the Healthy Bird Site updated.  

As you can see Jessica and Lucas were up for Christmas. Sure enough they are over here quick as lightening wanting to see the babies.  Jessica with her big smile. And Lucas well that is one precious boy.  He is (they both are!) so careful with the babies.  He looks up at me as he's holding one, and says "JoJo these are precious babies ...right....we have to be real careful with them."  Every Mom's who's a petlovers dream.  To have children that gentle with birds.  Jo has watched him just stand at the door of their home and watch and talk to them for an hour.  One nibbles him and he says, That's O.K. they are just babies.  

Lutino baby linnie - 5 weeks old and just one going concern.  These two babies are wonderful..already have their step ups mastered to a T.  Down side of that is the little green girl has already started the nibblie stage as well.  Way ahead of time, Jo finds they only usually start this stage, if they even go thru it, around 6 1/2 -7 weeks.  But she is also very quickly learning what AhAhAh means!  Lutino there, just a doll.  She is already taking her face and butting it into Jo and rubbing.  Jo calls this a nice sign of affection.  Then she takes and plays and gets mad at Jo's hair.  They are really taking flight now and gaining good mobility.  Another week and Jo will clip them, (not a short clip as she wants them to still glide thru the air, not go boom to the floor!).  Then when they are clipped she will allow them to sit out and laze around for hours on their drawbridge.   Jo came in and found the little green lady, laying on her back, feet straight up, playing with her toes!!!  This is not the first time she has found the babies doing this and it is just too cute!  Someday she's hoping to capture a picture of this for you all to enjoy.

Then we should tell you, we also have four more baby linnies two weeks old in the brooder and more to come.  Knows for sure two of them will be sky blues and the others will either be cobalts or slates.  

So we've squaked enough about them for now, our turn.  Me and my buddies here.  You know, the five sitting on Jo's shoulder.  I'm the fourth one down, the little pied seagreen of Pig Pen and Seawilly.  Well get this, me and  one of the boys next door (a little double factor violet, looks just like the one sitting next to m , then one of the cinnamon girls on the December Journal with Santa, and the picture right below the lutino linnie of the silver pied violet whiteface are all going to live way out in Brighton, Ontario to live.  Yessire, another week and we are history.  Our new Mom is just so excited and getting things all ready for us.  That's of course providing this cold snap of weather leaves.  Too dang cold out there right now to be shipping us around.  

The dude sitting on Jo's finger, posing no less.  Jo sent the DNA away and is just praying comes back a boy.  (that is Jo's prediction - lets just see if she is right) If a boy, he goes to live with Raine, the lady that left last month to live across town.  Jo finds the pied swirls on this baby just awesome.  

Oh, I think we told you that Jo had the Telegraph Journal call and come do a story on us for the newspaper.  Was published November 27, 2003.  Jo wants to try and get a copy to post on our site.  Anyways, the French newspaper called last week and came this past Monday night and did another story on us.  Isn't that wonderful!  That story will be published this coming Saturday.  (January 10, 2004). Course Jo won't be able to read it, but that's O.K., Lou will read it to her! 

Please excuse the button right next door here for now, some work, some don't.  Jo's been designing a new page for 2004 and still does not have it the way she wants it.  

Sorry folks but Jo says we have to go to bed as she has more work to do on the Healthy Bird site.  We heard that she is now also going to be a distributor for the Sandy Perch products and has to get a page up to feature them and provide pricing.  They are WONDERFUL and SO GREAT for us.  If you'd like one, please let us know.  She also ships them all over Canada, same as Healthy Bird products.  Matter of fact the new Mom that I am going to live with has ordered all Healthy Bird products for us and sandy perches to boot.  

See the handsome dude next door here.  Me, the one posing for you from all side, right, left, front.  Pretty handsome guy don't you think.  Jo got the DNA back on me same day as she took these pictures.  Remember Raine from last month's Journal.  You guessed it, gots me another one of those "pre-arranged" marriages coming, I can just tell!  That's O.K. from what Jo tells me she is pretty loveable.  Guess my new Mom emails Jo at least couple times a week.  Get this, she (Raine that is) is so spoiled with attention and love, my new Mom already her her saying two words and working on the next two!  Jo near fell off her chair when she read that today.  Who says we can't talk~!  Then you got those other spoiled brats here.  Yesterday she's trying to feed the linnie babies with those six out.  Three d/f violets, one slate, one silver and one cinnamon.  You want trouble let all them out,   ..at once!  Here they are, Jo sitting trying to feed the babies, (hope your good at visualizing) she has the cinnamon hanging from her glasses with his "bum" in her (Jo's) nose, she has a d/f violet trying to scoff the formula off the end of the spoon, she has on a shirt with a chest pocket......here the silver is IN her pocket, slates trying to go in behind her, another d/f violet is trying to preen the baby, Jo's had enough prys them off one by one and puts them over on the drawbridge, HA HA HA, they are all back in position quicker than she can get them all off!  That's it, she's had enough, you want to see six birds pout ............they all get sent back home!!  

Did you clue in to the word spoon?  Gotta tell you, Jo changed her method of handfeeding this week and is just amazed.  She used to enjoy handfeeding before, now she just LOVESSSS it!  She does not use the shringe anymore, she bought the proper Stainless steel handfeeding spoon.  Those babies lap that food back like no buddies business!  So much more natural she says.  The babies are working for their grub now, besides the fact Jo says it is so much more natural than "plunging" the food into them.  They take it at their own pace and just lap it back.  Even a linnie Jo has that is 6 weeks old, Jo tried her with the spoon to see what she would do and she took to that spoon like that was the only way she ever knew to get food.  

Speaking of babies .......back in a flash, ...  Jo gotta give the five linnies babies their snack. .................

Now speaking on those five babies, Jo is really stumped on the oldest one.  Should by all standards and laws be a colbalt (maybe a slate), but THAT'S IT.  Jo's seeing today those tail feathers and wings are not coming in cobalt!  Stumped on this one, I hope to kiss a duck.  The next two days till they come out more are going to be torture!  Puzzled is putting it mildly!  Now the second baby is just baring starting to feather, but Jo can already tell this baby is going to be a cobalt.  There really is a great big difference in these two babies!  

And the verdict is a sky blue, a cobalt and a slate.  Yep, that's what dear Opal and Archie have given us this time.

BUT the news of the week is . Tula and Grady.  Excited is not the word.  Jo is just on pins and needles for the next week and she feels they are in the clear.  Remember Tula her first clutch was one lousy Mom, did not feed her babies, it was just terrible.  Well the second clutch she got a bit better and was feeding and caring for them, but still far from the idea Mom.  Well she got FIRST PLACE in this Aviary now!  Laid a whooping SEVEN eggs and HATCHED every single one of them.  So far all babies are doing well, but it's only been three days since the last hatched.  Twice now Jo has found the last little one at the end of the nest box, cold and has had to put it back in the pile.  Jo has pulled four so far for handfeeding to give Tula some breathing room!  She is being the idea little Mom and stuffing them babes full.   They must be all out there trying to break records now as Rosey, who by the way is a GREAT Mom, is sitting on SEVEN eggs as well!  Jo wishes she could get a picture of this nest, but does not dare.  Rosey may be a wonderful Mom, but is also a tempermental one and has been known to completely abandon a test of eggs if you upset her.  If one does not hatch Jo will take a picture of it and post for you.  This lady lays boulders, not eggs!  They are HUGE.  The pile is SO big that it takes both Mom and Dad to sit on them and keep them warm.  Hence Jo is really nervous they might not all hatch.  This couple also produces creamino's so you wanta bet Jo's fingers are crossed.

So all told Jo has got herself 15 linnie babies.  That will pretty much clear up her waiting list and time to start a new one!

BisKit, the lutino linnie, went to her new home yesterday.  It's cute as her Mom has called her BisKit and her roomie is called Tea.  We'll post some pictures of the couple soon as they send us some.  That's her new Mom next door here feeding Zeus.  He is one handsome dude and is also going to go live with BisKit, Tea and the rest of the gang at their house.    Miss Attitude Plus, the little green lady, is still here and will be leaving to go to her new home soon.

Ya see Jo has finally posted some pictures of us here.  Yes US, Sophie and Soloman eating our chili peppers, our most favoriate treat in the whole wide world!  Pass us one of them and the manners go out the window, we grabs them fast as we can and chow down! Sophie is just starting her first molt now and you can just see a glimmer of the yellow coming on her forehead.  Me, I got a ways to go yet.  Remember she is older than me, not by much though.  As you can see by the purple hand Jo was hard at work dying us some more blocks.  You'd never believe she actually has a big box of gloves to wear for times like this!   Sophie is finally really coming around and where ever Jo takes me now, she had best bring Sophie as well, if not, Sophie is gonna follow on her own.  She has almost mastered how to give kisses (heck I've been giving kisses for months!).  What a slowpoke!  

Later today we have to get some pictures of the beauty lovebirds we have up there for you's to enjoy.  Some of  our fan club have been complaining, No new pictures lately!  Imagine.