#ring neck doves and zebra finches

[beloved-child-of-the-house]

i went to the flower fields with gg today, and there were so many women in their little outfits there and i just love women so much

[metricskilop]

Finch rescue birds 80247

Finch rescue birds 80247 license#

Finches, Canaries, and their close cousins the Estrilids (Waxbills) aren't able to mimic human speech or household sounds as they lack the chords around the voice box the Parrots have that is so similar to our own. Zebra Finches are also very popular as they are beautiful, common and inexpensive. These birds have an unrivaled ability to control the syrinx muscles in the throat and produce elaborate and melodic songs. The Finches are members of the order Passeriformes, which contains the perching birds. Reptile & Amphibian Light Bulbs & Fixtures.A memorial service will be held at 1:30 p.m. Quebec Way, Denver CO 80231.Ĭlaire Martin: 30, or /byclairemartinĬatherine “Birdie” Hurlbutt, whose wild bird rescue work made her a Colorado institution, died Dec. Survivors suggest donations to the W.I.L.D. “She would say, ‘The only thing better than one bird is two birds,’ ” Eide said.Ī memorial service is planned for 1:30 p.m. Bird center rescued nearly 3,500 birds last year.ĭespite advanced dementia, she maintained her interest in birds till she died, calling “Tweedle-dup, tweedle-dup” as her caregiver and friend, Cindy Eide, pushed Hurlbutt’s wheelchair down the sidewalk. She handed over her rehabilitation work to Deborah Strimple, whose W.I.L.D. By then, she had reclaimed the bedroom where Edgar once lived. Hurlbutt remained in her home until she was 97. Daisy was calmer than the quail she took to a Bird Anatomy for Artists class, where students gawped as Hurlbutt chased the fleeing bird, yelling, “Look at how his legs move! Look at them go!” The duck, Daisy, liked to perch on Hurlbutt’s head and was popular among schoolchildren when Hurlbutt visited classrooms. At one point, she had a robin, a raven, a starling, a goose, a duck, a bobwhite, two golden pheasants, two ring-necked doves, four crows, five house finches, nine sparrows and 27 pigeons dispersed among cages in the house and yard. None of his friends’ aunts had 20 to 30 birds living with them. “After we visited her, we liked to see her every time we came to Colorado because she was so much fun,” Youll said. In her family, Hurlbutt “was considered the odd duck,” said her nephew, Brian Youll, who met Hurlbutt when he was 10. In 1988, she was mugged by two men after being called to help a pigeon but remained undaunted. She responded to every report of an injured bird, from Canada geese and baby robins to endangered species.

Finch rescue birds 80247 license#

Her white 1975 Checker, with “Bird Taxi” hand-lettered on one side and “Bird Ambulance” on the other, bore a prominent phone number, images of 49 state birds and the license plate “C BIRDS.” Yes, Edgar learned to croak “Nevermore,” as well as “You’re a bad boy, Edgar,” a phrase that was not deliberately taught but hinted at his moody personality and penchant for destruction. Nearly anyone who knew Hurlbutt also knew Edgar, the irascible raven she rescued as a hatchling and which imprinted on her so thoroughly that he could never be released.Įdgar lived in her home, in a bare, battered bedroom furnished with sturdy wood perches and platforms He lived to be more than 26 years old. It took more than six months to get him to say his name, fulfilling Hurlbutt’s ambition to realize a line from Shakespeare’s “Henry IV,” in which Hotspur says “I’ll have a starling taught to say ‘Mortimer.’ She also taught Mortimer to say, “I’ll be right back.” In retirement, she devoted herself to bird rehabilitation and to researching and recording her efforts to teach birds to speak.Īmong Hurlbutt’s successes were Mortimer, a long-lived starling that she rescued from a cat. Bureau of Reclamation, where she kept a bird feeder near her office until she retired in 1978 after 41 years. She worked as a stenographer for the U.S. She raised her first bird, a chicken named Penny Precious, there. She spent most of her childhood on a Shaffers Crossing homestead acquired and then lost during the Great Depression by her father, a music professor with more ambition than business acumen. Hurlbutt, who never married and shared her modest south Denver ranch house with dozens of recuperating birds, was licensed to care for wild birds by the federal and state divisions of wildlife. Tall and lanky, with outsized spectacles and a broad, toothy smile, she devoted her life to rescuing and rehabilitating wild birds. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menuįor decades, Catherine “Birdie” Hurlbutt was a familiar sight, steering her converted Checker Cab as she drove through Denver to rescue injured birds.

[jaybug-jabbers]

Goodbye, old friend

(AKA, me getting overly-sentimental over nonsentient objects)

So, my mother sold the aviary she had been storing for me. I just learned this. I’m really bummed out about it, honestly. Admittedly, there is no way I will be able to use an aviary in the near future (lack the space for it), but it still would have been nice to have been given the option first. (she meant no malice, she did not realize I still wanted it)

I … always assumed one day I would go back to the bird breeding/keeping hobby of mine. Heck, I purchased that aviary when I was 14 or something, custom-sized from a vendor at a bird show. I bought it with grant money. I had applied to a special grant held for young women embarking on educational projects and was one of the three winners (I think it was three). I went on to assemble the aviary at a local educational community center, care for the animals I purchased and placed there, and ran some classes with the help of my friends and parents about birds.

(warning: ancient photos of 14-year-old me and my terrible pink leggings, fanny pack and Ugg Boots. also a bug-themed t-shirt but this should surprise no one.)

(button quail, ring-necked dove. the dove was a rescue bird from a local animal shelter I volunteered at.)

Good times. I was pretty deeply invested in that hobby. Part of the grant agreement was that I provided the company’s website with written updates and photos of what I did with the grant money, so that others could learn and see the cool stuff. It was a lot of fun. The aviary was only half of the project, too!

The other half had been constructing an entire bird room in my garage, filling it with breeder cages for the Zebra, Society and other finches I bred.

It was such a huge part of my life for many years. I wrote endless pages of notes about my birdkeeping, devoted myself to ensuring they lived rich, healthy lives, ensured I could meet any medical needs that may crop up for my birds, spent many hours on daily bird breeding/keeping e-mailing lists (which were all filled with adult hobbyists, but I was an articulate kiddo), visiting bird shows, selling birds to pet shops, and kind of just live and breathing it.

Anyway. Can’t help but reflect on it today. Maybe one day I will return to it.

This is a repost on a new blog. The original post was on May 2, 2017.

[beyondthetemples]

Tag a mun !

NAME/ALIAS: Zira, RHS, RWT, Blue

BIRTHDAY:  March 30th

GENDER:  mostly agender, sometimes a little demi-flux. I present way feminine because I love the Elegant Flowing Aesthetic.

RELATIONSHIP STATUS:  taken~

ZODIAC SIGN:  - Greek: Aries sun, Cancer moon, Scorpio rising  - Chinese: Water Rooster.

SIBLINGS: It’s fucking wild. Grew up oldest of 4, with one full-blood sister, one half-sister, and a stepbrother, but I’ve known them all since birth so they’re Basically Mine. Technically I also have two half brothers, one older and one younger.

PETS:  ALSO WILD. Right now I have two chinchillas (a white mosaic named Dusty, and a touch-of-velvet ebony named Sisu!), four diamond doves (white-rump named Blue, red named Soda, and two of Blue’s progeny, Silver and Ametrine, who take quite after their mother who was named White for her very white coloring), and also a very talkative zebra finch named Danny (after the New Teen Titans character who also never stopped talking). Used to be more, with different counts peaking at 5 doves, 3 chinchillas, 2 finches, and 5 bettas. At one point I actually had 6 ring-neck doves too (They were my only pets at the time), but my parents decided I couldn’t keep them anymore. (Is my bias towards birds showing? what do you MEAN that was already obvious???)

I’m also the Favorite Person of the family’s gray tabby cat (Belle), she comes to greet me whenever I get off work or come home from errands or org stuff, or even if I’m just in my room for too long she’ll sit at my door and meow.

Here are some pictures! 

Chins: [x] 

Soda: [x]

Danny: [x]

Belle for good measure: [x]

TIME:  12:45pm

TYPE OF PHONE:  Alcatel “Raven” model (yes really, I thought that was hilarious. it’s an obamaphone so it’s not like i intentionally picked it out, they just mailed it to me!)

LOVE OR LUST:  Love, I’m 99.99999999% asexual guys.

LEMONADE OR ICED TEA:  iced tea if it’s herbal or green. But lemonade if it’s that watermelon mint kind!~

CATS OR DOGS:  cats?

COKE OR PEPSI:  i can’t have either, actually.

DAY OR NIGHT:  night over day, far and away~

MAKEUP OR AU NATURAL:  usually natural, though i’m learning to love makeup when i’m in a situation with the org or the family where I know I don’t be judged for “doing it wrong”. (i’m a goth chick, guys. did you know they make blue eyeliner?! and kajal is so SILKY and SOFT!)

MET A CELEBRITY:  does Marv Wolfman count? He created Raven who saved my life, so I’m gonna count him. He complimented the gloves on my Raven cosplay.

CHAPSTICK OR LIPSTICK:  you know, until i discovered This Certain Brand, I never wore either. but then i discovered lipstick actually doesn’t have to be sticky?? lately i’m using that brand’s chapstick daily because my lips bleed otherwise, but i like the look of sheer lipstick.

LAST SONG YOU LISTENED TO:  Shining Through (Steven Universe song)

tagged by:  @dixerolled​ tagging:  Anyone who reads this far!