Our canaries often 'enjoy' each other's company at least a couple of times per day.  Our cutie Bethesda has subsequently been ripping the cage lining to shreds trying to make a nest.  Unfortunately for her, she had no where to put these little strips of paper.  Well one day, I awoke to find an egg at the bottom of the cage - so tiny!  So tiny, in fact, that it fell through the grate on the bottom of the cage and was resting in the tray where the paper is.  Bandito was all fluffed on the ground trying to sit on it, so I knew I had to take it out so they wouldn't try to hatch it.  The poor little egg was cracked anyway.

Knowing that if you take their eggs away, birds will try to nest again, Matt and I picked up a nesting basket and nesting material on Saturday.  The canaries have been going to town! Their cage is a complete mess.  They LOVE the little string nesting material, but they don't seem to love it in the basket - so it is strewn all about the cage.  Sometimes Bethesda will put some back in the basket, but most of the time she carries it all around the cage and ends up dropping it on the ground.  I've since given up trying to put it back in the basket.  As I type this, Bethesda seems to be trying to weave a nest, so we'll see how it goes.  Bandito likes to sit in the basket with no strings in it - the little bugger.

Here are a couple pics of the nesting activities :)