Following our recovery from walking pneumonia, Marcus and I left the house yesterday in search of a fourth bird for our growing pet family. We tend to troll pet shops every month and look for birds. We generally are interested in unpaired or sick birds. We pick a name ahead of time, and head on out. Following the adoption of ‘Fluorine‘, a female blue-capped Cordon Bleu waxbill we have been searching for ‘Neon‘. There is a pattern as you may have guessed. We already have Dimanche (male mutant Bengalese Society Finch, Neptune (male white Zebra finch) and there were birds before them that have passed on over the years.
We adopted a Lady Gouldian (red head, white breasted normal). We can’t tell if it is a boy or a girl yet. The pet shop thinks it is a male, but thus far I was only able to make it sing a short call. Neon has a lot of wing damage, but we hope s/he will recover well and make good friends with the rest.
The next quest will be for ‘Enteka’ (#11 in Greek). Maybe we’ll have him or her by next year.
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3/28/07, Btw, it is a SHE and we love her.
