Cage & Aviary Birds

Moving home and starting again

I HAVE written before advising other people about moving home. Should they give up birdkeeping or carry on in their new home, perhaps cut down on the number? It was easy to write about the options when it was not me involved. Now I find myself in that position and things do not seem so straightforward after all.

Two budgerigar conversations from the past have always stuck in my mind. Tom North, my mentor, would say: “You can always rely on numbers to pull you through.” In a similar vein,

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