Today is a sad day, our favourite finch died this morning. For the last 4 days Celestine had been looking unwell and at first we thought it was minor. Originally we put her in the medical cage, given the heat lamp during the day and medicine in her drink.  She perked up soon into the first day while we were getting the aviary ready, and as she was to live in the aviary with the Bengalese as an honouree finch, we had transferred her back with her friends. But we had to take her back out after we noticed her health had deteriorated again. Yesterday she had perked up again and was eating fine, and at night she was sleeping soundly on a perch with her head tucked over to her back. This morning, we found her dead on her back, still worm, implying we had missed her by less than 30minutes.

 Celestine had always acted a bit funny ever since we got her mid April 2012, and seeing as she was picked on by other birds at the shop when we bought her, we now wonder if she had had an internal defect.

Celestine was a lovely Penguin Zebra finch. She was friendly and polite, letting over finches go first and coming over to us when we spoke to her. Celestine was very young when we got her, and was most likely only about 7 months old when

R.I.P Celestine

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Celestine. When we first got her, she had no tail, but it grew back into a beautiful tail
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Celestine was so cute
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celestine eating seed
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Celestine used to enjoy baths
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Celestine got on well with the Bengalese finches
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Celestine hanging out with her best friend, Aquila



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