A New BIG Home

The babies moved into an aviary today ... lots more space for learning to fly and stretching their wings.  They look like canaries now - not much smaller than their parents.  The only difference I see are their tail feathers (the babies' are much shorter) and their skinny legs.

Louie is enjoying his new home...

Moving Out

Had to move Lucy out of the cage today.  She has laid two eggs and although she feeds the babies, Lucy seems more interested in building a new nest.  Problem is ... she is using her babies' feathers to line her new nest! Ouch.  Saw all three birds eating on their own so all should be good.

Batman

Louie was such a good father ... feeding his babies and Lucy.  We didn't like removing him from the family cage but he was bothering Lucy too much - so much that we thought they both may get hurt.  Days have gone by and Louie has calmed down quite a bit, so we put him back in.  That lasted maybe two minutes.  He spread his wings like Batman and tried to run down Lucky, one of the babies.  Don't know what that was all about but we removed him immediately.  All is well again.