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00:00Today, we're visiting Marianne Kjog, a passionate and experienced breeder of softbills and finches.

00:06Her garden holds for beautifully integrated outdoor aviaries. Marianne puts great care

00:12into limiting the number of birds per aviary, focusing on quality and natural behavior.

00:17Her biggest success this year is a stunning result with the rare and demanding azure tit.

00:23Let's take a first look inside Aviary 3. Notice the lush greenery, the running water,

00:28and how each space feels like a small piece of wild nature. It's a setup any birdkeeper would admire.

00:35In this aviary, Marianne has bred the silver-eared mesia. One large juvenile shares the space with

00:41its parents, who are already on a new clutch of eggs. Although several chicks have hatched

00:46successfully, some have sadly died after leaving the nest, a sensitive period for them. These birds

00:52require a constant supply of live insects, which Marianne collects herself and provides in a

00:58escape-proof feeding containers. Also in Aviary 3 are bearded reedlings. Several chicks have fledged

01:04this season. These charming birds, with their acrobatic flying style and expressive faces,

01:10are a joy to observe and breed. We now move to Aviary 1, where Marianne has had great success

01:17breeding king quails and Cuban finches. Again, everything is planted and arranged to encourage

01:24natural nesting and behavior. And here it is, Aviary 4, home to this year's highlight,

01:33a truly impressive breeding result with the azure tit. This species is rarely seen in captivity

01:39and almost never bred. But here, Marianne has raised a large, healthy clutch, at least nine fledglings,

01:47plus the parent birds. There was also a pair of long-tailed tits, but only one remains now,

01:52making the azure tits the dominant species in this aviary. I've personally bred azure tits before,

01:59and I'm genuinely impressed by Marianne's achievement. When I bred them, I struggled to

02:03supply enough live food. So I isolated the nest in a sub-aviary, then opened it to the garden,

02:09allowing the parents to fly freely and collect natural insects. I'll link a video about that

02:15experiment in the video description. One amazing trait of the azure tit is how quickly it bonds with

02:20its keeper. Marianne is able to hand-feed them daily with fresh-caught insects like mosquitoes,

02:26moths, and other night-flying bugs, all food they would naturally eat in the wild. Along with large

02:32amounts of small crickets, these insects were key to the success of this rare breeding.

02:38Now we're looking into Aviary 2. This aviary is also supplied with live insects plus, as all,

02:45seeds universal softbill food and fresh fruit. A pair of robins live here.

02:49And here are more juvenile, bearded reedlings. In their young plumage, with that dark eye stripe,

02:56they almost look like little masked bandits. They're a funny and sociable species I've kept

03:01and bred many times myself. Thank you for watching, and don't forget to like,

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