He's always wanted to keep birds, and so when he built me the coop for The Girls, he designed it like an aviary and used very fine mesh to enclose the whole thing. We can stand up inside, and there is plenty of room for my seven hens and his six finches.
Just like with the chickens, there is Drama. These guys are better than TV. Turns out, Owl Finches are known escape artists, and within a few days, the female went missing. While Ray spent time trying to find and repair any possible openings she could have used, the remaining male Owl began to set up housekeeping with the male Star. Leaving the poor female Star alone in the corner drinking cosmopolitans and reading magazines about How to Keep Your Man.
Once Ray was sure the enclosure was secure, he went back to the breeder and got another Owl female. She got used to the aviary right away, figured out who Her Man was, and went to work on wooing him. The male Star became jealous and worried he would lose his drinking buddy, so he started pulling out her tail feathers. He probably figured she wouldn't be attractive at last call if she had no tail feathers, and he could be assured of going home to the man cave with his buddy the male Owl.
Meanwhile, the male Star continues to be the most aggressive nest builder in the bunch, and his construction helper is the male Owl, not the female Star. This is definitely a Man Cave they are working on and not a Nursery.
So, we will probably have to capture the Star pair, and isolate them from the rest of the charm (yes, that IS what a group of finches is called, isn't that charming?) so that the Stars can spend some quality time alone together, and the two boys can forget all about their college dorm years, beer pong, and whatever else has been going on in that man cave.
1 comment:
LOVE THIS! Maybe your boys like boys? You know, in more than a "just friends" kind of way ;)
Love the variety. You guys sure have fun!
Michelle
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