Our Fly Babies Story
Fly Babies Aviary began with an unanticipated series of events. There was an ornamental bird cage in our entry, never meant for birds. However, when our housekeeper saw it empty, she felt it needed a feather-baby, so she gifted us a zebra finch. She then came to the opinion that the finch needed company, so we bought a female companion. The little girl laid eggs in the gold-leafed seed cup. Watching the petite pea-sized babies hatch was incredibly fascinating. When the little ones fledged they were so small that they slipped through the cage bars. Suddenly, our home was filled with chirping finches darting about. We fell in love with the vibrant life process. We started breeding Lady Gouldian finches, not knowing at the time that they were one of the most difficult species to breed. Our business started with researching and breeding Gouldian Finches, which are known to be difficult to breed as they can be very poor parents in need of society finch surrogates. The timing of transferring the eggs had to be perfect. One day in a pet shop we saw a man with something cupped in his hands. It was a little blue bird, a one-ounce wonder called a parrotlet. So we started breeding those. We soon had an aviary.
Many might wonder why we didn’t stop once we found homes for our finches. The answer is the incredible array of colors and differential personalities in species that delighted us and brought joy. We were captivated from the start, and then addicted.
As we have aged over the 20+ years we’ve been in the bird business, our focus now is on cobalt blue, cobalt turquoise, and the occasion snowy albino parrotlet hatchlings that we hand feed and hand train. We have developed special relationships with our breeders in Florida known for the most beautiful birds of each species. If we do not have it, we are successful in finding the type of bird you want.
We enjoy and respect our customers as much as our birds.
So, here we are – Fly Babies Aviary.
Why Fly Babies Aviary?
Fly Babies has years of experience in breeding, raising, handfeeding and taming Gouldian Finches, Parrotlets and Canaries, which are the types birds we sell. We impart these qualities to our birds, and they develop them in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, dedication, and self-control. Our customers are thrilled about their birds. They say Fly Babies’ birds are some of the very best quality and most beautiful they have ever experienced. Fly Babies LOVES getting letters and pictures from our happy customers.
Pocket parrots (parrotlets) are given affectionate hand feeding and are trained to be loving and gentle. Those of us here at Fly Babies have become known as the “Bird Whisperers.” We are excited about the care of our birds and we encourage each Fly Babies owner to also become a bird whisperer.
Our customers are joyful about their singing canaries and many write about the vibrant beauty and strength of their new rainbow finches (Gouldians).
Fly Babies’ customers are customers for life because once they experience the level of care with which we nurture our birds from us to you, they don’t want to go anywhere else. We are extremely happy that our customers recommend their friends to us upon seeing these birds. We do much of our business through referrals and word of mouth. Once you see these birds, you will feel you must have your own so you can experience the same joy.