The weather there is still very dry and windy.
Rainfalls were everywhere around the area except 20 km around my BH, sigh!
Progress are very slow, only 6 more sweet spots increase from last visit.
The good news is they are quite evenly distributed between 3 floors, at 9, 5, 5 spots for 3rd, 2nd and 1st floor respectively.
Third floor.
Second floor
First floor
Rice tree in the paddy field nearby grew up fast. Within next two months will be harvest time.
It's the time that swiftlets love to fly above the freshly harvested field.
So I guess the prime time for swiftlet bird house in this area should be around May to Nov with two reasons,
a) Harvest time and b) Changing wind direction from North East monsoon season to South West milder wind.
Will have to wait and see whether my guess is right or wrong.
During this trip, also got an opportunity to visit a friend's bird house 45 km away from my bird house.
This BH is only 6 months old with 90 nests! It is stand alone in the palm plantation on the river bank.
This is my friend's second BH, the first one was built in the town center using the same consultant.
The first one is now one year old with only 60 nests.
So it is not necessary that town BH will be better than stand alone.
I asked them for the reason why the town center one was not as good, the answer was "too many BH in the area".
This house is big, 9x32 meter,3 floors, with only 2 amplifiers inside, poorly built, many problem to be rectified right now.
But yet, a lot of birds inside. I went inside the house at 5 pm, saw many big full size nests, saw many birds flying over my head with no fear.
This one is a real jackpot for the owner, she didn't know much about birds and now she is very happy with the outcome.
way to go, mom.
ReplyDeleteNice project tho:)
btw why ur blog doesnt have a share click to FB ?
Toon:)
Didn't know how to do it.
ReplyDeleteNo ventilation holes but with 90 nests?? Some part of our knowledge is till not quite right.
ReplyDeleteIt seems there is no ventilation holes! I guess your friend's BH is using fans as forced ventilation. If so, she might get headache when applying aroma for the BH.
ReplyDeleteIf there are 90 nests already in just 6 months, why rectify ?
ReplyDeleteShe should do nothing and wait until the number of birds stops growing.
By the way, what kind of humidifier they used?
It seemed like if the location is right, everything else doesn't matter much.
ReplyDeleteThe owner needs to rectify on some poor workmanships work on the building, ie, water leakage.