As of yesterday, Lemon Pepper is officially a month old!
She's still very tame which is nice, but she's also in full flight mode! I came home on Saturday and went to the cage I have to feed her, and she immediately flew at me scaring the crap out of me and perched on my shoulder. When I started to feed her she couldn't sit still. She flew to my shoulder, my head, the table, my wrist, everywhere! Was quite the circus act to try and feed her.
Now she spends her time flying around my office all day harassing my finches and her parents and on the occasion, me. And speaking of the devil, I swear this is some kind of magical power I have, as I was typing this up she decided to start harassing me and is nibbling on my monitor.
But whenever she gets hungry she likes to land of my hand and nip at my fingers, and if I ignore her because I'm in the middle of working, she'll hop around my keyboard preventing me from typing. She's a bit of a brat.
Glad she made it to a month old since I feel if a bird makes it to a month, they should survive well into adulthood. She feeds herself a lot now, but I still feed her a couple of times a day. Hoping she'll be fully independent by the end of the weekend, but I kinda doubt it. Which is fine since I'll miss those bonding moments.
Also caught a family photo of all the finches yesterday.
Oreo likes to mount his children, which is a bit unfortunate, but they're all hoping and flying around on their own at this point as well. I found them a couple of times eating and drinking on their own, and the 3 parent finches are teaching them how to take baths as well. It's hilarious to watch them flap around in an attempt to dry themselves off while sitting on a perch and constantly fumbling around.
Also, I noticed Smores and Double Stuffed puffing up, dancing, and "singing" like male finches. I assume this is wayyy too early for it to be an actual singing session, but is it possible for finches to start doing a mating ritual at 28 days old..? They're very clumsy and unrefined, but I swear it looks a lot like the male dance. I tried to get a video of it, but of course every time I start recording they stop.