Christmas Came Early!

[willowsmum]

I'm still shockingly behind with everyone else's news but I couldn't wait to introduce our new arrival!

















This little beauty was a stray, found by a man outside a supermarket in Aberdeen a month ago (hardy doesn't begin to cover how lucky they are to have survived Aberdeen weather in November!), transported down south, fostered out to one of the SSPCA staff and finally put up for rehoming on Monday. We braved the snow and -14 deg temps and collected them the next day (nothing else would have got me to leave the house in those temps). So they are home safe and have settled in well, quarantine has begun and the noise levels are high! There is a lot of contact calling. Bramble especially is going nuts! 

So now I need help from all of you clever lot. Gender, type, name suggestions - any advice welcome thanks. As they're a stray there's no more history but I don't see any iris rings and I would describe the cere as pink/lilac with a slight pale blue tinge around the nares - hopefully you can see it clearly in the pics. They are desperately trying to escape from the cage and force themselves into every tiny space (I can see how they might have ended up as a stray) which is very unlike Willow and Bramble - possibly henny behaviour? Absolutely clueless about mutations but I don't think it's as straightforward as Brambles 'normal green' which clearly threw me last year! We've held back on names until I have your gender advice but keeping with the current plant/tree theme might be nice.

Thanks all and apologies again for the long silence. Hope you and your flocks are all well and happy birthday to all those I've missed. At a glance it looks like there's a lot of forum members with birthdays around now.

[Loz]

Pretty!

Lovely looking budgie! I'm always wrong but I think a young boy. Type 1 yellowface is as far as I got on the mutation.

Random name suggestion - Cedar?

[blueelephant]

Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous!!!

I would also go with boy, and the beautiful mutation 'ever so, ever so handsome'.

Name suggestion, Rowan.

[ffiscool]

Wow what a lucky bud, to have been saved and homes now by you.

Gorgeous. I think boy

[ffiscool]

A weird name suggestion as in it’s not a name name. Aqua

[Marianne Marlow]

What a gorgeous budgie. No ideas on mutation.
Gender, I think male.
Name? Thistle

[willowsmum]

Thanks guys. I'm loving the name suggestions. New bud was 'advertised' as a male but I think the staff were a bit unsure to be honest. Something tells me that a third boy might be an easier addition but I've had a very feminine feeling about 'her' all day. As I put Willow and Bramble to bed tonight (Willow hops onto my hand and is transferred into sleep cage, Bramble hops onto a specific swing before I transfer him to cage roof and he climbs in himself (always has done his own thing that one) all of which took less than a minute) I told them that these days were numbered and that bedtimes may not always be so stress-free

[tweetiepiesmom]

What gorgeous coloring!!! Since he's an early Christmas gift, I would have suggested 'mistletoe' but I think thats too long, so how about 'spruce' which would fit either boy or girl.

[Ira]

I'm guessing male, single factor type 1 yellowface sky blue opaline. I think it may technically be what people classify as a 'rainbow'.

[criswell]

What a beautiful budgie, and so lucky to have managed the outside world. They are going to love living with you.

[willowsmum]

Thanks all. We are so thrilled to have them and can't wait for them to join the boys. Just in case it helps any I've posted a pic of when they were first found in November, it's not very clear though and the male opinions seem unanimous!

Wow Ira that's a lot going on. Is the opaline responsible for the very pale flight feathers can I ask? I'm googling rainbow budgies now to try to get my head around it a bit. Thanks!

[willowsmum]

Ira I found this bit about spangle rainbow budgies as opposed to clearwing rainbow which also seems to fit I think (but I have no clue really!)

[jellybean]

A little beauty, his colours are stunning.

I'm also saying BOY.

Well done for rescuing him.

Willow & Bramble....The fun is about to begin 😂😂

[tweetiepiesmom]

I can't get over how pretty he is! You are both very lucky to have found each other.

[Ira]

willowsmum No, just contributes to the lack of/very fine head bars and the combination of yellow and blue in the wings in his case.
Tempted to add single factor spangle into the mix... That combined with the opaline is what essentially removes the black markings and replaces it with body colour. (Super simplified version, i.e. that's what it looks like but genetics are crazy)