Winddys Wings Avian Sanctuary

02/16/2025

01/29/2025

All 3 of them together! That’s rare. 🤣 Twister and Idgy are turning 19 this year and Wobbie will be 20

01/27/2025

My precious Twister man. Singing. He will soon be 19 years old !! 💕 💗

01/27/2025

01/01/2025

Idgy and Wobbie

12/25/2024

Go Twister!! So I wanted to share. It’s been awhile since he sang like this. Turn it up if you have birds!!

12/03/2024

My birds are all retired now. I do not have birds available. If you’re looking for Linnies please contact the Lineolated Parakeet Society.
Or go to their FB page called Living with Linnies! Join and inquire. Lots of good people there

09/11/2024

Do you like My special Broach? That’s my Wobbie. 19 yrs old. Love this boy to pieces!

04/18/2024

Twister and Idgy. 17-1/2 yrs old.

04/07/2024

They’re just so beautiful. Must video. Can’t help it.

03/10/2024

I thought y’all might find this interesting. My Flicker (Lineolated Parakeet) was given to me when he was around 6 months old. The principal at a parochial school about 2 hours north of me contacted me about two Linnie’s they had in a classroom. He said they were just too loud for the school. I drove up there and picked the two up; cage, food, toys and all. The principal was so happy to see me. 😉 I felt very honored that they chose me! The school was located in a rural area. Lots of woods, greenery, trees. Well after bringing them here I found out that all the “noise” that Blue Bird (as the class had named him) was sounding out was indeed extremely loud. 😱 Louder than any Linnie I had ever heard. I knew the sound was a bird, but I couldn’t quite figure it out. Until I found the Northern Flicker woodpecker!! (Please listen to the Attached sound). He heard the woodpeckers outside and he was mimicking them very well.
So I named him Flicker. It probably took about a year or so; maybe 2 before he stopped! He was hand raised originally by Cindy Norman from one of the pairs she had purchased from me previously. However, he was no longer hand tamed. Definitely bit hard a few times to protect his mate. That’s ok. Oh well.
Well now 14 years later he no longer makes the sound of a Flicker woodpecker.
He never bites.
He has slowly become a wonderful smart little Velcro Linnie that Alice Russin, Bob and I love dearly. I’m so glad that he ended up with us. I can so understand how someone in an apartment or the school itself couldn’t continuously listen to this noise. “Noisy” they called him. I love him to pieces. Does your Linnie have an interesting story?? Please share!!! If you’d rather not click the link look up allaboutbirds .org. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northern_Flicker/sounds Northern Flicker —

Northern Flickers are large, brown woodpeckers with a gentle expression and handsome black-scalloped plumage. On walks, don’t be surprised if you scare one up from the ground. It’s not where you’d expect to find a woodpecker, but flickers eat mainly ants and beetles, digging for them with thei...

02/29/2024

Twister. Wobbie and Idgy. 17 and 18 years old

02/29/2024

02/29/2024

Lots of storms last night 11 tornados reported. In February! 1 Beagle and four birds in the basement. Flicker didn’t care. today he’s such a little happy camper!! It didn’t phase him a bit.