The aviary was designed so that the footprint sat squarely atop the sleepers and was fixed down with treated pine coach screws. Lots of them to make it secure in case of high winds.
The aviary has a central divider, hinged horizontally across the middle, which allows the top half to fold down. This way we can divide the aviary into two sides to segregate birds or folded down to allow full flight access along the entire length.
One door on either side of the divider to allow access to both halves when the central divider is up. In the top of each door is a smaller door which folds down horizontally. This allows what's called "soft releases" where we open the top of the door and allow the rehabilitated birds a way out of the aviary without us stressing them by having to chase them out.
This high door also allows the birds a safe, predator free, way to return to the sanctuary of the aviary during the transition time moving out and finding their own places I the wide wide world to live. Sometimes this takes several days for the little tikes.
The aviary sits outside my bedroom window. This is the view I get when I look out. Lots of beautiful birdies accompanied by their happy trilling and warbling and jostling for position
Looking down on the middle of the aviary from our verandah. We've put some native flowering plants inside for the Australian native birds to learn to feed from prior to release. Lorikeets are primarily nectivores so they will need to recognise native nectar bearing flowers when we are no longer supplying them all their food like hungry human teenagers.
