Today four Senegal Fire finch babies left the nest! I could see into the nest and knew there were two, hopefully three, but today it's official--four. They are already banded, but when I went to take pics, my battteries had run down. I will let them calm down now and get pics later. These were the most squirmy babies to band--I wasn't dropping bands, but these guys were flinging the bands off before I could get them over the back toe. And they never made a sound in the nest, but didn't shut up while I was handling them.
They are in the same breeding cage with my wild-caught pair of Goldbreasts, who have just settled down to incubate, so this may mess up the GBs. Hopefully not.
Here are the photos:
This is one of the babies sitting in front of the Goldbreast nest.
This is the family, plus the male Goldbreast, who tried to get in all the photos. Daddy Fire is on the perch, with Mama Fire on top of the nest, far right.
This is the Fire Finch family, Daddy Fire in center, Mama fire top right, four babies.
