Friday, March 18, 2011

BH Visit

Just came back from my monthly bird house visit.
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.

3rd floor

Second floor

2nd floor

First floor

1st 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.

by the river1

by the river 2

6 comments:

  1. way to go, mom.
    Nice project tho:)

    btw why ur blog doesnt have a share click to FB ?

    Toon:)

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  2. No ventilation holes but with 90 nests?? Some part of our knowledge is till not quite right.

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  3. It 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.

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  4. If there are 90 nests already in just 6 months, why rectify ?
    She should do nothing and wait until the number of birds stops growing.
    By the way, what kind of humidifier they used?

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  5. It seemed like if the location is right, everything else doesn't matter much.

    The owner needs to rectify on some poor workmanships work on the building, ie, water leakage.

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