Sad News

It was a sad day for us today as our smallest baby finch died. He's the one in some of the older posts and the one that we held in our hand in some of the photographs. He was always the smallest of all the babies, and I think he followed his older brothers and sisters out of the nest and came out earlier than he should have. Also, he was always a quiet baby, far more interested in sleeping than yelling for food, and then being fed by his parents. As a result he got far less food than the others, but he seemed to be surviving. This morning however we found that his parents refused to feed him and just stopped altogether. We moved him and his Dad into a separate cage hoping that it would help, and the father would start feeding him - unfortunately he didn't, and the baby got weaker and weaker. We even tried hand feeding him, but he refused to open his mouth and it just didn't work. He ultimately succumbed today.

In remembrance.