One of my Society finches died on the weekend while I was away. She was nearly 7 years old (in finch years, that's venerable) and had been sick since a week before, and didn't improve too much even with the prescription antibiotics the vet gave me to put in her food. Fortunately I had someone coming in to check on them everyday ( Read more... )

This report in Science Daily is interesting. It appears that humans and birds, despite being very different, share the same genes for voice and speech development ( Read more... )

On Saturday I bought a new Society Finch as company to my two surviving ones ( Read more... )

Another one of my finches, Pagerbird, died tonight. She had been fine this morning but when I got home she had all the symptoms of egg-binding. It's a condition common to older female birds where an egg forms but can't be laid, and the stress tends to kill them very quickly. It's like a woman dying in childbirth ( Read more... )

One of my birds died while I was away. She had been weak for a long time and so I was expecting it, and in fact a few days ago I had to put her in a separate cage because she couldn't fly well enough to get to her food.

She was a wonderful tame, funny bird and is survived by my 5 other finches, canary, the hamster, and me.


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Last evening I was napping in my bedroom. I was half asleep and then I heard chirping. I sat up and looked and one of my finches was in my room, on the floor, looking up at my bed. I had left the cage door open so I guess they had got out ( Read more... )

I finished up my workday, and the 2006 work year, said goodbye to my boss and a few students who were around, and walked home.

I took a leisurely pace getting my stuff packed and having lunch. I let the birds out for some flying while I replensihed their food and water. My birds, fish and plants will be in the capable paws of cdn_cub while I'm gone. The ( Read more... )

i) Waking up to a loud, massive thunderstorm at 5:50 AM. I drifted back into a doze while listening to the heavy rain and thuder until my radio came on at 6:20. Felt more refreshed than in a long time ( Read more... )