Finches

[sillygoosegirl]

I haven't seen hide nor hair of Mr. or Mrs. House Finch since we've been back from vacation. I fear that they've either abandoned the nest, or been eatten. No more of the eggs have hatched, but the one out there looks... smaller and scronnier than he did yesterday morning. Furthermore, my experience with baby birds is that, if they see/hear someone coming, they will open up to recieve their food. He did that when I saw him for the first time yesterday morning, but he isn't doing it now. We've been staying off the balcony most of the time (I still want to tend my plants), but I'm afraid perhaps Mrs. Finch had already had too much of us by the time we went on vacation. Additionally... I worry about only one of the eggs hatching so far... I wouldn't expect more than 1 day between hatchings, certainly not the almost 2 days that it's been. I wonder if she's been gone for days (she was no longer sitting on them consistantly by the time we went on vacation), but maybe this first egg was far enough along on the incubation to hatch anyway. I feel really bad that we might have scared the mommy away... not that it's my fault she thought it was a good idea to build her home so close to big scary human beings she evidently doesn't want to be around.

I think maybe I should do some research as to what you can feed a starving finch baby... cause I think that's what we've got on our hands.