Faculty and Staff:

Peachy, a peach faced lovebird, is the founder of Peachy Garden College. She escaped from a home where things were well... just not bird friendly. She flew around the area for a while and came across an exceptionally wonderful place to settle that had a lovely garden and lots of delicious food and a friendly environment.. She liked it so much that she flew into the house of the beautiful yard and the owner of the house agreed to take her in and treat her like the queen that of course she knew she was. Peachy got to look out in the yard all the time and talk to all the birds and she went out into the yard and enjoyed the lovely space. She thought it was all so lovely.  So much more lovely than any yard she had ever seen in her travels and she wanted to try to make this kind of yard available to all birds. So, she discussed it with the owner of the house and they agreed to create a college where people could learn how to create bird friendly environments.

Finchy, a male house finch, is a bird that was brought to the bird rescue center as a baby nestling. He was fed birdy formula every 30 minutes from a syringe by the volunteers at the center until he could eat regular food. Every hour he was alternately fed birdy formula and regular food. After he could eat on his own, he was graduated to larger cages and eventually released with his clutch mates into a person's yard to join other members of his species. He found that the garden where he was released was very special and had all the things that birds would like. It had a bird bath, a feeder of delicious seeds, flowers that were especially likeable to finches and it was free of preditors like cats. Finchy was so impresed with the environment in which he was relased that when he heard about the Peachy Garden College, he wanted to join it and help the world create more bird friendly gardens like the one where he so fortunately was relased..

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Goldy, a male goldfinch, is a rebel. Goldy didnt want to eat mother's regurgitation, he didnt like to be in the Sebastopol area where his family was even though it was cooler there than in hot Santa Rosa. He was a "hot" bird and wanted to be where the action was. He just didnt like all that "natural" stuff that they tried to put out as food. Goldy wanted real seeds and real flowers and a real world. So, Goldy took off, said goodby to mom and dad and the siblings and took off for more interesting environments. Goldy took one look at the Liblane farm and said "this is the panacia I had imagined." There were even some very attractive female goldys that were what he considered to be real "hotties." After spending a few weeks at the farm, he loved the other goldys and finchys and mourning doves and even the occasional house sparrow immigrant. He had conversations with the birds in the yard in which he told them how much he loved the place and how much he appreciated that such a place existed. They told him that the Peachy Garden College was looking for a goldy with his enthusiasm to join their faculty and that maybe he should go talk to them. He did and it was a perfect match.

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