Prince Henry's absolute favorite website: xeno-canto. He just can't get enough of the bird songs. You can play several at once to get a jungle-full of birds going. Henry jumps back and forth in excitement around the speakers. He can't get enough.

All the bird songs are available as free mp3 downloads as well, and I've been busy downloading pages of them to put together a playlist for Henry.

Yesterday, Sir Dubbins and Prince Henry moved in together. Instead of moving one into the other's cage, purpleglitter and I decided to move them into a new cage together so that neither would be territorial. They both have been in their old cages for a while and neither were particularly thrilled about moving, but neither freaked out and the both seem to be adjusting well to the new arrangement.

Outside their cages lately, Sir Dubbins has been staring longingly at Prince Henry while Prince Henry stares longingly at Prince Henry in the mirror. They spend so much of their time together when they're outside their cages, why not let them be together inside too?

Prince Henry's test results came back yesterday, and he got a clean bill of health. He got to fly with everyone else for the first time. Sir Dubbins freaked out and had to go back to his cage, but the budgies didn't seem mind him much. None of the budgies approached him too closely, but it was evident Skye wanted to. We're not going to have Prince Henry and Sir Dubbins out at the same time until they get a little more used to the idea of each other.

I went to a equinox dinner yesterday at lady_babalon's and sophiaserpentia's. I must say that sophiaserpentia makes the most excellent apple crisps. I was happy to see that x_bluerose_x was there to. We sat around the table and discussed what we viewed as our "harvests" this year, however I'm more planning for the spring then harvesting now. Of course, there were other topics, but that was the planned topic. I wish I could have stayed longer, but I had fun while I was there.

After leaving the equinox dinner, I went over to merryperseis's place, where I ate again. I knew that we would be having roasted cauliflower, so I intentionally ate sparingly at the early dinner. I brought her my serpent staff. I've known that my bird staff is what I'm meant to use at this point, and merryperseis told me she needed something that symbolized a serpent: so the transfer seemed right. I wanted to do it on the equinox for balance. There wasn't really any ceremony about the transfer, it was just done.

Prince Henry woke purpleglitter and me up this morning with his best imitation of an alarm. The bedroom is the only room we have that is appropriate for quarantine, so I guess we have a new alarm clock. He's definitely louder than any of the other birds we've had, even Sir Dubbins.

He's gotten plenty of scritches so far today and while the cage he came in is far from toy deprived, we plan to give him a couple of the birdy booty toys from shadowrabbit. I'm sure he misses his old humans, but I think he'll come to like it here.

Prince Henry is in the bedroom after coming down with us from Salem, New Hampshire. purpleglitter found our new tiel friend on craigslist. He's such a cutie and was obviously loved by his humans. He loves scritches, and while he didn't like the ride down, he seemed to accept us rather quickly once in the house.