Further adventures of the diamonds. When they are locked up, they like to subtly hint that they would much prefer it to be roaming free - by sitting in the front corner of the cage, pressed right up against the net. In the bottom picture, they are vacuuming my plate after I’ve eaten a bun. 

Eggsies! The first pair of eggs, but they abandoned them immediately so I’m hoping for another clutch in summer. He hasn’t started wooing her yet, so these random eggs were much too early lain, I think. But my god are they gorgeous!

Diamond dove feathers, from two blues and one silver/white. 

The top are the prettiest feathers, bottom left are red ones from the wing that are quite disheveled but that I felt sorry for, bottom right is the feathers’ crib. :) 

Annnd, here they are together in their sleeping corner - he likes to sleep all fluffed up in a ball while she mostly just fluffs out the feathers on her belly, while her wings her stuck on him. Before this, for six months, she has refused to sit close to him, always insisting on at least 5-10 cm of space between them, but then two weeks ago I came home to them sleeping like this and I thought I would die of the sweetness. 

This is Drypteis (in my bed, of course), the female little diamond. She is quite flighty since she lived in a different environment before I got her as a companion for Achilles, and about 2 years old. She also has a very explosive way of flying, which makes her husband’s delicate fluttering seem very unimpressive. She also flew into a window when her previous owner tried to catch her with a net, and although her injury closed up immediately, she has a little bald patch right over her beak. She isn’t really much frightened any more (it has been little over six months since I got her), but sadly you can’t touch her. 

She is a very sweet girl, and not at all impressed with Achilles’ rather awkward attempts to woo her, but recently they have become glued to each others’ sides, so I take that as a good sign. 

there’s a bird in the bed

Baby Achilles is a vital part of the table. 

Kaolittle. He doesn’t live here anymore but he has a lot of new friends now! 

favourite place to sit. 

My baby Achilles is getting a girlfriend today! ö 3 ö