Animal Cruelty?

I just moved to a new place, and my new housemates have a few family members (cats and birds) that have their quirks. The finches usually wake up around 6:30 and starts chirping. It works during the weekdays when I have to be up at that hour, but on the weekends like today, it's not the most convenient. This morning, they were chirping a little bit more than usual, so I got up to see what the ruckus was about. Here is what I witnessed.