Napping Spot Discovery

Here's Stevie making himself very comfortable AGAIN, this time on my daughter's shoulder.  He started out on her shoulder, but then crawled up towards her neck.  He finally could go any further, getting himself wedged in nice and snug behind her neck, against the back of the sofa, and stayed there happily for quite a while.

  

Head shot

Booty shot

3 weeks

It's amazing how he changes by the day.  He's about 14 days old here.  His eyes opened a bit, but the lids don't go down all the way.  And although they are cracked open a tiny bit, he doesn't really respond to movement around him.  But he's growing beautifully.  Feathers filling in, he is busy preening.  Still keeps cozy and sleeps a lot.

He's sort of taking peeks at me

But doesn't track movement...

The diva is tired of the photo shoot

Makes himself comfortable...

What's going on?

After we'd had him for a few days, I realized I never saw him with his eyes open.  They should have already been open around the time we got him, or shortly after.  So we took a video of him, to send to our finch raising friend.

Our daughter decided to name this little fellow, Soren (after a character in her current favorite book series, Guardians of Ga'Hoole).  I started calling him Stevie Wonder.  Steive, Soren.  Tomato to-mah-to.

Arrival

I have experience hand raising finches, so a friend who raises beautiful finches, gave us a hatchling of Java Sparrow a couple of weeks ago.  I love baby birds.  You think puppies are cute?  Look again my friends!!

 9/11/13 

He's probably about a week old here.  I had just brought him home as a surprise for the kids, and he hadn't been named yet.  Those yellow dots around his neck are seeds.  We'd just fed him some dinner, so he is full and content :)

Below is a video of him learning to eat.