Well I finally 
got around to getting some pic's of my bird avairy, most people who see it say it's huge but sometimes I look at it and think, gee really could have gone another 2m in depth and another 1m in height. Orginailly my husband had suggested we put a huge tall pole in the middle of the yard and just net the entire lot making one huge walk in aviary (our entire yard size is 897square metres, so not a tiny yard), I kid you not! 
And he wonders 
why I keep getting more pets, with suggestions like that. 
Hope you enjoy 
The dogs in the front are Leah (the mostly white one) and Thor the Staffy.
I'll be even happier with the aviary when the orchids on the old clothesline beside it are all in the bush house currently being constructed down the side of our house.
The cockatiels that do a fair impression of being rabbits and even nest on the ground, as I wont give them nest boxes as I don't need or want any more and they are getting hard to sell locally. On the far left are my Rosa Bourkes, Burke the male at the top and Rose the female on the lower branch.
Two female Ruddies (mother and daughter don't ask me which is which), 1 male cordon bleu, 1 male red faced gouldian and a black faced hen with hre back to me.
Male and female Ruddies love seeing the boy in the sun, so red and vibrant!
Not very good I know but on the right is a male black faced gouldian, in the middle a male strawberry finch, female black faced gouldian and on the wire the female jaracini, I couldn't get the male to stay still in the sun, he is STUNNING 
. And just in the bottom right hand corner a part of a female red cheeked cordon bleu
Male Cuban, who was chattering at me the entire time I was in the aviary.
Male and female cuban finches
A male strawberry finch, such a pretty little boy.
got around to getting some pic's of my bird avairy, most people who see it say it's huge but sometimes I look at it and think, gee really could have gone another 2m in depth and another 1m in height. Orginailly my husband had suggested we put a huge tall pole in the middle of the yard and just net the entire lot making one huge walk in aviary (our entire yard size is 897square metres, so not a tiny yard), I kid you not! And he wonders why I keep getting more pets, with suggestions like that. Hope you enjoy The dogs in the front are Leah (the mostly white one) and Thor the Staffy.
I'll be even happier with the aviary when the orchids on the old clothesline beside it are all in the bush house currently being constructed down the side of our house.
The cockatiels that do a fair impression of being rabbits and even nest on the ground, as I wont give them nest boxes as I don't need or want any more and they are getting hard to sell locally. On the far left are my Rosa Bourkes, Burke the male at the top and Rose the female on the lower branch.
Two female Ruddies (mother and daughter don't ask me which is which), 1 male cordon bleu, 1 male red faced gouldian and a black faced hen with hre back to me.
Male and female Ruddies love seeing the boy in the sun, so red and vibrant!
Not very good I know but on the right is a male black faced gouldian, in the middle a male strawberry finch, female black faced gouldian and on the wire the female jaracini, I couldn't get the male to stay still in the sun, he is STUNNING
. And just in the bottom right hand corner a part of a female red cheeked cordon bleu
Male Cuban, who was chattering at me the entire time I was in the aviary.
Male and female cuban finches
A male strawberry finch, such a pretty little boy.
. But on the up side my King quail have yet more chicks, the Red stars have just had 2 more chicks fledge and the cubans have a fledgling chick. Somewhere In the mass of various nesting material I have heard some more chicks peeping, but because I have no idea who's they are or where excatly they are in the clump of grass etc that the nest is in I haven't dared explore incase I cause the parents to desert the chicks. I doubt it is any gouldian chicks as they nest in logs or boxes, with the jaracini's gone that leaves them out, so I am HOPING that its the red cheeked cordon bleus. Hubby will be pleased if his (that's how I got them by letting him choose a finch species for the aviary) Red cheeked Cordon Bleus have raised a little family, then he shouldn't moan so much when I tell him we need to go on another termite nest hunt. Oh forgot it could be the St Helena's with chicks, 
If a farmer calls a cockatoo (any type red- tailed black, sulpher crested, galah, long or short billed corella) then they can get a permit to shoot them sometimes by the hundreds, but let somebody who is going to give the bird a wonderful (although no longer free/wild) life and they will come down on you like a tonne of bricks 
. In QLd even a native bird or animal that can not be released back into the wild for any reason must be killed, unless you can obtain special permits to keep it for life. Other states in Aust aren't quite a backward and will allow you to keep all sorts of native animals, provided you have a permit/ licence. Qld only just removed some of our native finches off the must have a licence to keep list, so I will probably get a few more types down the track I just can't be bothered going through all the licensing garbage again to just keep and sell the odd offspring.
) I would go for a pair of normals (either red faced, black faced or yellow/ orange faced) and try to get them from a breeder that has allowed the parents to raise their own chicks. They will not make their own nest so you need to provide them with a nest box or log and they will fill that up with grass. A little tip I got told to ensure that Gouldians would nest was to make sure their nest opening faced due east for the rising sun, don't know why but it works. And then give the Gouldians a good selection of finch seed, as well as plenty of ripe seed heads along with thistles (sow or milk not scotch or mexican), egg and bisuit is a popular with them as well.
