I am in heaven with these new musical collaborators. You can also hear some Zebra Finch singing too but for the most part Caruso and perhaps Mario a bit too, are prominent with their trills and chirps. Below is the Serenata Andaluza in its entirety along with noisy page turning as the binding on these volumes is very tight, and a segment of the Ritual Fire Dance which Caruso seems to enjoy immensely. A few weeks ago I decided to learn some Manuel de Falla piano music after hearing some on the radio, so I bought a couple volumes and have started to work on a few pieces. I have a couple hastily-made recordings from the one day it was cool enough to turn off the fans in the house for a while so they wouldn’t interfere with the music. I suspect I may have deprived him of that night-shift pleasure by purchasing these two. I was also surprised when he said this, because none of my male Societies had ever sung like this before. Suffice it to say that there were a few canaries a couple small cages away, but when I got to the counter to complete my purchase, the young man at the register said he loved it when he worked on the night shift because the Society Finches were the best singers. The bird I immediately named Caruso is a fantastic singer, and his brother, Mario, is no slouch either. I guess the guy who caught them wanted to make sure I got the right one by retrieving them both. The males might even be brothers – they have nearly identical breast colorations that look like brown bibs. So I told the young man who came to retrieve three birds from the cage for me that I definitely wanted the male.Īs it turned out, I got two males and one female – that is, she is not singing. I was able to identify one singing immediately, even though I could barely hear it, I could tell he was singing and that’s the only way to distinguish males from females. And like everything else, they were twice as expensive as the last ones I adopted years ago.Įven more expensive were the ones I found on Thursday, but there were many more to choose from, and they were mostly chocolate brown and white in color which was what I desired to complement Penny and make her more accepting of the newcomers. The birds were pale and small, they didn’t look anything like Penny and there weren’t many to choose from. So after my house guest’s departure, I started visiting pet stores. At least she would feel not so quite alone. But I thought just having a new little Society Finch coalition of three might afford one out of the three that Penelope could take a liking to. Especially because of the age difference, I imagined it might be difficult. You can’t expect them to bond with the one you have. I started wondering if it was worth trying to find a few Society Finch housemates for her. When Priscilla finally died I felt sorry for Penny being the lone Society Finch in a sea of Zebra Finches. (Apologies for the bad photos in this post but it’s harder to take pictures inside.) To be honest, I always imagined she would be the one to get sick, but she endures. Penelope, or Penny for short, is distinguishable by her feather-picked neck. While the two may not have been the closest of friends, they were pretty inseparable after a third bird died sometime in 2021.īelow is a cell-phone shot of last three that were left – I had maybe eight or nine of them at one point, I can’t recall – I used to call my “guard birds” sitting on top of the security panel for the alarm system, likely looking through the openings in the blinds covering the window atop the front door.Īnd below is a photo of Penelope on the left and Priscilla on the right. A few weeks ago, the Society Finch I had named Priscilla – she, with Penelope, also named at the same time, were the only two left of the species in the house – died after a prolonged debilitating illness.
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