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hi Merrilyn
we had a giant hopper in the aviary while we were gone, no gouldian babies at the moment, but we have two birds sitting. Also just before we went away we were lucky enough to see a...

this is only part of our trip, mind you, we spent most of our time in peru up in the andes mountains crawling all over ancient inca ruins and stuff ...
I just thought the jungle stuff would be most...

there were butterflies, too, giant ones ... brilliant blue hues .... the little bastards wouldn't stand still for a photo, and when we were lucky enough to find one, it had its wings folded up .......

dawn choruses of monkey were our alarm clocks at some stupid time in the morning ... we didn't have a watch so we never knew the time, but we knew it was stupid because it involved monkeys!

and here's some more of the critters from around the lake

a good part of our time on the lake was spent looking out for the giant otters! there's a small family of 7 living in the lake and they've just had a pup, so they were super shy and antsy. They would...

lots of stuff to see in the jungle .... some of the plants are nuts!

hiyas,
it definitely was a great trip, and one of the best I've done so far! we had no concrete plans and did everything off the bat ... I love not being attached to a travel group!
here's a few...

nearby in a bunch of water-plants were what I took to be festivums, Sandoval lake is strange though, so it could have been .... the arapaimas are introduced here, too. anyway, here's a couple more...

more fishing successes

I caught some with my amazing trap ... a sawn-off water bottle!

apistogramma and geophagine species hung about at the shore but I wasn't expert enough to identify them correctly

fish in the water at night are easy to find .... but if you keep the light on too long, the flying insects swamp you like nothing I've ever experienced before. If we had a 10 second window of...

more critters you can poke a stick at ... I don't have any pics of it, but seeing an arapaima surface is an awesome experience. everytime one did, the camera took too long to focus. their scales are...

more jungle fun

the surrounds of the lake teemed with wildlife, all of it attractive in its own way

the jungle was so humid and stinking hot the day we got there .... completely different from the dry mountain air which cracked our lips within no time at all.

hiyas :)
it's been a long time since I posted here, but we've been soooo busy with work, it's stupid. After all that hustle of activity, we took a month off and went to Peru for a well earned rest...

oh, I thought that was info about the baby ....

so stop teasing us and post pictures!!!

2 x pair A. melgar spawned

are those the original ones or did you get some others?

as requested, here's a little update :P
all 6 are out and flying now, and perching all together. I gotta try get some pics when I'm home during the day on a weekend, but for cuteness factor I don't...

didn't think I'd post so soon, did ya?
here they are 5 minutes later! :P

little update, 5 of the 6 little ones are flying, the smallest one's still in the nest. here they are on their sleeping branch, where all (except 1 for some reason) the unoccupied gouldians roost for...

I think the breeding season is from about jan/feb till around september. our aviary is closed on 3 sides and half to 3/4 up the fourth side, we'll be putting up perspex for winter. these little gems...