Nora Update

Nora has started eating some millet seeds and occasionally does these small flying jumps so I've moved him into a temporary cage.  I say temporary because this is Henry's travel cage and until I make a flight cage it will have to do.  Since Nora is still very young I've left the heat lamp close to the cage but farther from his "nest" than it was before.  As I write this Sweetheart is watching over the finch.  I don't know what I'd do without her.  Lucy would have had him for a snack day one.  However, if you are taking care of a baby bird I do not recommend having a cat guardian unless you are absolutely positive it will not eat the chick.  Nora is a lucky bird to have such a companion.

Baby Finches!!

Zeus and Hera had a baby!  Well, technically they had several but only one is still alive.  I'm freaking out!  After so many failures it is truly uplifting to see him/her in the nest.  This time I took of the bottom part of their cage off and laid down a soft towel with some newspaper on top so the baby would survive if they end up kicking it out (as they have done in the past).  I also made sure they had fresh millet and apple slices (I'm boiling them an egg too).  If it ends up abandoned I do have baby bird food.  I'm not looking forward to feeding it every two hours, but I will if it comes down to it.

At this point, the only thing I'm worried about is the wheezing-half-whistle type of noise I occasionally here coming from the nest.  I'm hoping it's just the baby asking for food.  Though it occurs to me that it could just be the parents regurgitating food.

Here's a pic of an unhatched egg for size comparison