G’Day Birdie Sanctuary

31/07/2025

Canary logic: it turns out if you stand on top of your food, nobody else in the flock can steal it 😂💛

30/07/2025

How cute is Bindi 🥹

Contact Newcastle and Hunter Valley Bird Rescue if you can offer her a home 🧡

(If you’re in Victoria, Lazzi's Legacy Bird Rescue & Sanctuary and Kiwi's New Life Bird Rescue also both have canaries for adoption)

**ADOPTION SPOTLIGHT**
If you know anyone who adores and spoils their canaries, please spread the word!

Little Bindi is a sweet character with a bright eye and chirpy nature. She deserves all the good things.

She's looking for a place to land where she can stretch her wings and frolic with other canaries in a lovely, spacious environment.

Diet
She enjoys seed and powdered canary mix, but gets extra excited when you bring her a fresh little boquet of common grass seed.

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HOW TO ADOPT BINDI

If you have a place in your heart and home for this sweet girl, please send the team A DIRECT MESSAGE.

28/07/2025

And another one to support 🧡

Boobook Wildlife Shelter are one of the main wildlife shelters in Melbourne. If you find an injured or unwell bird, there’s a decent chance it will end up in their amazing care

Look at all of these gorgeous little ones who’ve been given a second chance 😍

28/07/2025

Look at these cuties! 😍

If you are looking to adopt a bird, the pigeons at Freckle’s Fellowship Pigeon Rescue are so amazingly well cared for, despite their often tragic backstories.

Pigeons make fantastic pets - they have all the fun and sass of a parrot, but less of the destructive tendencies (we’re pretty sure they won’t chew any holes in your walls… though no guarantees 😂)

And even if you’re not looking for another feathered friend right now, please give them a like/follow as they do fabulous work 🧡

28/07/2025

The Monday budgie fluffiness continues… we feel you Mikey 😴💤

28/07/2025

Monday fluffy cheeks from Lia 💛

Lia has been a sanctuary resident since 2022, and is always so full of personality 💚

27/07/2025

I am a starling, hear me roar! 🦖

(Nobody tell him that he mostly says “I love you” and “what’re you doing?” 😂)

27/07/2025

We are tree planting in Drouin!

Come down to Thomas Maddock Reserve anytime until 1pm and help create some extra habitat for birds and other wildlife 🧡

26/07/2025

And of course it wouldn’t be the weekend without some lovely budgie spam, so M2 (Myrtle 2) is here to wish you all a splendid Saturday 💙

We have two budgies both named Myrtle, and this little one was the second one to join the sanctuary, hence her nickname.

After a few years of being shy, M2 has recently decided to become a tame birdie, presumably because she’s becoming broody (look at that brown cere). She doesn’t quite know how to contain her new-found excitement around humans though, and so currently her favourite thing to do is bite our skin so hard that she draws blood 😅

They make be cute, but budgies are still parrots and the hens will definitely remind you of this fact!

26/07/2025

After feeding all the sanctuary birds this morning, we popped over to Drouin library for a lovely presentation on “little brown jobs” aka thornbills - one of Australia’s smallest types of birds.

We are lucky enough to get wild brown thornbills here on the sanctuary property, as they love feeding on the bugs in our trees (especially the native lilly pillies). But it was fantastic to learn about the other species of thornbills, as well as other small native birds.

Thanks to myli_library and Friends of Drouin's Trees for a great event!

(We make good use of their resource guides which only cost a few dollars - highly recommend them if you want to learn more about our local flora and fauna 🧡)

25/07/2025

One year ago today, we loaded all the birds into a van and moved them out to Warragul.

Relocating an entire bird sanctuary was as exhausting and stressful as it sounds, but it was so incredibly worth it. Moving here allowed us to expand the work that we do, and we now play a pivotal role in helping Gippsland’s birds, as well as still assisting into Melbourne when we can.

Chaos Gremlin the starling is just one of the local birds we‘ve been able to take in. He came from a nearby vet after having fledged (left the nest) too early, and was found wandering the streets of Warragul without his parents, confused and alone. He wasn’t even born when we moved here, but he insists on being the face of the celebration today 😂

To the wonderful people of Baw Baw who have embraced us with open arms, thank you. Here’s to many more years of being part of this lovely community! 🧡

24/07/2025

If anyone’s looking for something local to do this weekend, come plant some trees! 🌲🧡

🌳🚲Save the date! PEDALand Plant in Drouin Sunday July 27 for National Tree Day.

Sorry about the typo (this poster is clearly a draft) but we wanted to let you know so you can come along and plant a tree in Drouin next Sunday. The goal is 🌳1200🌳 trees planted at the corner of Manikato Drv and Hopetoun Rd.