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Welcome to the Medlin's Bird Webcam
Birds can be viewed during day-light hours. Keep reading for more
information on the birds. |
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The birds in our webcam are House Finches; the female is
pictured above on the left, and the male is pictured above on the right.
Even though the birds look very large in the webcam, the finch is a very small
bird - only about 5 to 5 3/4 inches long! When the babies are hatched they are
actually smaller than a dime.
This bird nest was built in a basket of ferns hanging on our front porch in
Cordova, a suburb of Memphis, TN. We discovered the nest on Friday April
20th. Eggs were laid around Wed April 25th. Research shows that these eggs
will hatch in approx 11-13 days so we expect baby birds around May 7-9th.
We expect that there will be thousands of viewers around the world this year
just as we had last year. An additional feature of the webcam is the
optional monitored, family chat room. After the birds hatch, viewers normally
start naming them and then refer to them each day by name.
The typical baby bird will stay in the nest for 12-14 days before leaving;
therefore, we could see the birds start leaving as early as May 23rd.
We hope you enjoy the birds as much as we have do. If you
have any questions or comments, please send your messages to us at
wa5kub@gmail.com. Thank you.
Tom and Kathy Medlin |
Information below is from last year's cam
This bird nest was built in a basket of ferns hanging on our front porch in
Cordova, a suburb of Memphis, TN. We discovered the nest on Friday May
19th (2006) when there were only 4 eggs in the nest. On Friday, May 26th
(2006) the first egg hatched, on Sunday the 28th the second egg hatched, on
Monday they 29th the third egg hatched, and on Tuesday the 30th the fourth egg
hatched.
Since we added the webcam to Tom's website on Saturday, May 27th (2006) there
have been a couple thousand people watching the birds. An additional
feature of the webcam is the optional monitored, family chat room. The
first bird was named Johan for a viewer in Belgium, the second bird was named
Elvis by the viewers, the third bird was named Bill by the viewers (it hatched
while our neighbor, Bill, was mowing his lawn and we could hear everything), and
we named the last bird Neely after our two granddaughters.
The typical baby bird will stay in the nest for 12-14 days before leaving;
therefore, we could see the birds start leaving as early as Wednesday, June 7 or
as late as Tuesday, June 13 (2006).
WMC TV Channel 5 in Memphis aired a great story about our webcam on Tuesday,
May 30 and they also have a link to our webcam on their website:
http://www.wmctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4965288&nav=menu59_2
We hope you enjoy the birds as much as we have enjoyed them.
If you have any questions or comments, please send your messages to us at
wa5kub@gmail.com. Thank you.
Tom and Kathy Medlin
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