Please leave a comment on your visit here, or you can email direct at vinman90501@yahoo.com . I appreciate all feedback! Thanks!
Here's what other visitors had to say:
Date: Saturday, August 21, 2004
Time: 04:57 PM
Hi! I'll make the first entry! Let me say it is a pleasure sharing with you all my love for animals and birds in particular! It's amazing what goes on in a finches nest while it breeding and rearing its young. I hope you enjoy your stay here! I appreciate any feedback you leave so don't forget to "sign" the guestbook!-Vinman
Date: Saturday, August 21, 2004
Time: 06:20 PM
Thankyou so much for the opportunity to see the hatchlings and see them grow!!:) Thanks Terra
Date: Sunday, August 22, 2004
Time: 04:33 PM
Hi im Denise is the baby in the nest by it's self?? i didnt see the parent's
Date: Sunday, August 22, 2004
Time: 05:39 PM
Yes Denise, unfortunatly there was only 1 hatchling out of 3 eggs. The parents do come in the nest to feed the chick and give it warmth. Although less frequently since it is about 14 days old. The parents have started to sleep outside the nest (expected) and so you will see them less frequently1
Date: Monday, August 23, 2004
Time: 01:00 AM
Hi Vinman i was looking at your society's my crested look's just like yours. is yours a female or male?? mine is a female.who just had 4 babies they started hatching in the 15th. Denise.. DEEBEBLONDE007@yahoo.com
Date: Tuesday, August 31, 2004
Time: 04:17 PM
You have a fantastic aviary! Perhaps I'll learn to build one someday after seeing yours! Rusty Coy z3rusty@yahoo.com (3 zebra finches)
Date: Tuesday, August 31, 2004
Time: 04:17 PM
You have a fantastic aviary! Perhaps I'll learn to build one someday after seeing yours! Rusty Coy z3rusty@yahoo.com (3 zebra finches)
Date: Tuesday, August 31, 2004
Time: 07:25 PM
you web site is awesome, I really enjoyed the little one. Teresa
Date: Wednesday, September 01, 2004
Time: 12:09 AM
Vin, I never did sign your guest book, even though I complimented you privately on the live cam. Joe P. in Dallas
Date: Wednesday, September 01, 2004
Time: 09:32 AM
Hi Vinman, I didnt see the baby last night or this morning. is it out of the nest now?? fledged?? Denise*** DEEBEBLONDE007@msn.com
Date: Wednesday, September 01, 2004
Time: 01:20 PM
Hey Denise, I really couldn't tell. I stepped out all day yesterday and returned to find the chick on the floor last night sleeping. So I don't know if it accidently fell or not. Anyway I place the chick on top of the soil in a potted plant in the aviary and it slept there all night. This morning it was still on the floor of the aviary somehere else but not perching on some wooden dowels I placed low on the cage. I guess it still hasn't learned to fly yet.
I then placed it back in the open canary nest and it perched right on the edge of the canary nest (which is good as that confirms feet okay and it has learned to perch) and saw DAD fly over and feed the chick (good Daddy).
So right now if you look at the cam , baby is in the canary nest perching.
Hopefully it will fledge the next couple of days!
Date: Wednesday, September 01, 2004
Time: 03:56 PM
Hi vinman, Im so excited for you. i cant wait till my society's fledge. i can see great. both of the parent's & baby. congrat's to you & them. DEEBEBLONDE007@msn.com
Date: Wednesday, September 01, 2004
Time: 11:11 PM
Thanks Denise, can't wait to see your new ones!
Date: Thursday, September 02, 2004
Time: 09:04 AM
Hi Vinman, WOW thoes are relly great pic's of the family. we'll have to wait to see if it's a male or female. very cute!!! cant wait to see it color up. DEEBEBLONDE007@msn.com aka Denise***
Date: Tuesday, September 07, 2004
Time: 02:34 AM
Thankyou so much for sharing all this with all of us!!!!It's wonderful!!!! Terra in Calgary, Canada
Date: Tuesday, September 07, 2004
Time: 02:46 AM
Thanks Terra for the compliments, also thank you also ROY!
Date: Tuesday, September 07, 2004
Time: 11:05 AM
Hi! I've been keeping an eye on this cam since its inception and I just love it. It has been so much fun watching the young one grow up. I have zebra finches and a lineolated parakeet, and I'd love to set up my own webcame sometime. The site has much improved since the beginning, too. Good work. :)
Erin
Date: Tuesday, September 07, 2004
Time: 12:19 PM
Thanks so much Erin. I appreciate your comments. It has been a eye opening experience as this is my first hatching (gouldians no less!) and just watching nature at work is incredible. Right now, the fledgling is trying to learn how to hull seeds and it is a joy watching it do it. I hope my zebras (which are too young right now) will have successfull hatching/rearing experience when the time comes and currently I am crossing my fingers that my cordon bleus will have a good hatching! They have been sitting on eggs for over a week now! Hope to get some pics up when that happens!
Date: Wednesday, September 08, 2004
Time: 09:56 AM
Hello Vinman Thankyou for this lovely camera view of your gouldians i enjoy it very much and check it every day i dont have great success with mine but get a baby now and again. Regards: Pat in Australia: sirrah@dodo.com.au
Date: Wednesday, September 08, 2004
Time: 12:26 PM
Thanks Pat, I appreciate your comments. I hope to have more successfull clutches in teh future!
Date: Friday, September 17, 2004
Time: 09:56 AM
Hi Vinman, My female creastd look's just like your's in the first pic of your crested They could be twins. lol Denise*** DEEBEBLONDE007@msn.com
Date: Friday, September 17, 2004
Time: 09:56 AM
Hi Vinman, My female creastd look's just like your's in the first pic of your crested They could be twins. lol Denise*** DEEBEBLONDE007@msn.com
Date: Friday, September 17, 2004
Time: 03:27 PM
I think it's great!!
Date: Sunday, September 26, 2004
Time: 02:11 PM
Hi Vinman I think it is very nice for you to go to all the trouble of putting up something that everybody can enjoy. It puts the human touch to be able to see it and just not read about it. very very nice Merle
Date: Sunday, September 26, 2004
Time: 02:55 PM
Thanks Merle, I appreciate it.
Date: Sunday, September 26, 2004
Time: 05:55 PM
I Vinman, I just viewed your cam. was that you out by the bird's? Denise*** DEEBEBLONDE007@msn.net
Date: Sunday, September 26, 2004
Time: 09:17 PM
Actually, that might have been my wife trimming the plants down next to the fountain behind the cage. Good eyes!
Date: Thursday, September 30, 2004
Time: 12:55 PM
Hi Vinman, I had to remove all 6 of my gouldian egg's from the pair. they were not sitting at all.I put them in the society nest. they have egg in there of their own Do you think she will continue to lay egg's? Denise DEEBEBLONDE007@msn.com
Date: Thursday, September 30, 2004
Time: 01:10 PM
Denise she will continue to lay eggs if the original eggs are gone. Although check her beak, it must be still dark for her to be in breeding mode. Just make sure she gets enough calcium (my primary source is freshly boiled egg shells). I have never had any of my finches not go right after eggs shells after i place them in . If she see that she is getting enough calcium she will starting laying again. Although fertilization is another question. The pair will have to start mating again for fresh sperm to be stored in the female while she develops the eggs. It might take some time. Do you have your pair seperated? I find it makes the pair concentrate better on the task at hand. I am lucky my pair are tight sitters. They have not let up since 11 days ago! My six eggs are bout to hatch anyday now as the male is also spending alot of nest time with the hen! I took up the challenge with my zebra chicks of handfeeding them. If you have a worst case scenario and the societies reject the g. chicks go to handfeeding. It's really not that bad once you gain experience. My one zebra chick died because the original zebra parents were not feeding them. I managed to save the remaining chick by emergency handfeeding and placing it back into the care of my societies!
Beware I have read that once societies start to rear their own or another species, they may lock in on the mouth pattern of what they are used to and reject the others so be watchful for when the g. chicks hatch that they are being fed also!
Date: Friday, October 01, 2004
Time: 12:40 PM
Hi there, I felt compelled to sign the book today as I am the 2000th visitor. Lucky me! I love the rotating cage cam, it's a neat idea.
Erin
Date: Friday, October 01, 2004
Time: 01:31 PM
Thanks Erin! 2000 visitors , wow I could not imagine that many since 2 months ago. Just proves that there are many finch lovers out there! I plan to make use of the rotating cam moving it once a week! My counter records different IP addresses so it kind of reflects how many have seen my site! Glad you are enjoying it!
Date: Sunday, October 03, 2004
Time: 06:05 PM
Hi Vinman, Nice!!! You can really see them Better this time. Denise*** DEEBEBLOND007@msn.com
Date: Monday, October 04, 2004
Time: 09:06 AM
GREAT SITE!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hi I'm from Guatemala Central America near Mexico and I been breeding Gouldians ans stars since 2000 and I had never seen them in the nest like that! Thanks for a wonderful moment!! Edelmira
Date: Monday, October 04, 2004
Time: 10:56 AM
Thanks Denise and Edelmira for the comments. A nestbox view is always a treat in my opinion! Glad you are enjoying it!
Date: Tuesday, October 05, 2004
Time: 01:32 PM
Your cage cam is awesome. How interesting to watch their behavior in the nest. Great job, thanks for sharing it with the world. Claudia
Date: Tuesday, October 05, 2004
Time: 05:06 PM
Thanks Claudie, I'm glad you were able to enjoy it! I love seeing the parents take such good care of the babies!
Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Time: 07:33 AM
Hi Vinman, Is something wrong with the gould's??? I havent seen the babies move!!! Denise*** DEEBEBLONDE007@msn.com
Date: Friday, October 22, 2004
Time: 01:03 AM
Yeah Denise, unfortunatly with the heavy rains we have had the last couple of the days, somehow it worked its way into the nest box and drowned both chicks! I was away and could not do anything about it! :(
Date: Saturday, November 06, 2004
Time: 05:18 PM
Hi Vinman, How's the gould fledgling doing? Is it a boy or girl? Denise*** DEEBEBLONDE007@msn.com
Date: Saturday, November 06, 2004
Time: 06:28 PM
Debbie, too early to tell. It's still olive green with outlines of where the other colors will be but can't tell yet!
Date: Friday, November 19, 2004
Time: 10:40 AM
Hi Vinman, I think your baby's are camera shy every once in a while i'll get to see them. My gouldian baby's have fledged. Im still feeding 1 from another clutch But is seem's like it is growing very slowly.not as big as the other 2 when they were that age. Do you have any idea's why?? Denise*** DEEBEBLONDE007@msn.com
Date: Saturday, December 25, 2004
Time: 02:32 PM
Date: Thursday, January 27, 2005
Time: 04:58 PM
This is really nice. Gorgeous. Terri
Date: Friday, February 18, 2005
Time: 07:15 PM
Date: Thursday, February 24, 2005
Time: 01:57 PM
Hi vinman, was excited to see your setup. How cold does it get outside and how warm do u keep it inside? Al in CA
Date: Thursday, February 24, 2005
Time: 11:08 PM
I have seen it go down to the 40s and the finches seem to keep it in stride. If they are incubating chicks then I will pull them indoors which is kept at about mid 70s at night to mid 80's daytime. Thanks for asking! I am currently hand feeding a single cordon bleu chick at the moment!
Date: Friday, March 18, 2005
Time: 11:56 AM
I am interested in some gouldian birds. Do you send them by mail? I live in Idaho. Please advise
Ross wells1644@msn.com
Date: Friday, March 18, 2005
Time: 04:19 PM
Thanks for sharing your birds with everyone. I've kept/raised Society and Zebra finches in the past, but am down to one Zebra pair at the moment. They are now raising their first clutch... so far, three of the four peeps are alive and doing well.
Will stop back in now and then to see what's new!
Thanks! Tammie
Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Time: 07:07 PM
YOU DO GREAT PONDS..... LOOKS GREAT. FROM THE SUPREME TEAM....
Date: Friday, May 13, 2005
Time: 01:55 PM
Wow! Cameras, monitors. You really have an eye on things. The videos are wonderful. Fascinating web site. Great job on the pond. Looks like something from HGTV.
Ron Rogers Tyler, TX
Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Time: 10:31 AM
Nice Site
Date: Friday, June 17, 2005
Time: 12:25 AM
Date: Saturday, June 18, 2005
Time: 04:40 PM
GREAT SITE YOU HAVE. I ALSO HAVE AN AVIARY (8'L X 6'H X 4'D. AND A FISH POND 8' X 9' X 2 I/2'. AND I PLAN ON EXPANDING BOTH. MIKE MORENO VALLEY, CALIF.
Date: Friday, June 24, 2005
Time: 03:05 PM
Cindy (cakinND) from Norh Dakota- cool site!
Date: Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Time: 03:50 PM
Hey Vin those are really nice pets you got. Nice pics and really interesting. Stephan (from cf :-D)
Date: Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Time: 03:00 AM
Eh,Vinman! What's up! Howzit! Aaaaaloohhhhaaa! Long time no get in touch with you, sorry! I was busy with school and the kids (still 2) it's been awhile since we traveled anywhere but when we can we'll meet up sometime, either here in Hawaii or where you are. I have your e-mail address but find it interesting to go this route, you put a lot of effort and it seems many people appreciate your bird cam. Anyway I'll get in touch with you later, say hi to everyone and hope everyone's doing great. Take care, Da Leongs in Honolulu
Date: Monday, November 14, 2005
Time: 02:27 PM
What music prefer?
Date: Saturday, November 26, 2005
Time: 06:31 AM
Hi! I can not load the image on server in any way.
Date: Sunday, November 27, 2005
Time: 11:32 AM
Hi Do not prompt how to adjust a font of the messages?
Date: Monday, November 28, 2005
Time: 01:21 PM
Hi! That means it is impossible to add?
Date: Monday, November 28, 2005
Time: 08:37 PM
Hi! How at you with weather? At us absolutely of gloom = (
Date: Monday, November 28, 2005
Time: 08:38 PM
Hi Good site. It would be desirable to return again and again!
Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Time: 04:25 AM
Good site. The guest book too good! Necessarily install to itself same.
Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Time: 04:39 AM
Good site. Why also is not present?! (
Date: Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Time: 04:44 PM
Hi As to me to create the same page?
Date: Saturday, December 24, 2005
Time: 04:12 PM
Good site. The answer