During last trip back to Sungai Patani, I live in Kuala Lumpur, Encik Frank Yap of Kulim came to visit my birdhouse.
Before I took him to my birdhouse, I scheduled viewing of other birdhouses in the Town of Sungai Patani and Merbok.
The 1st that I showed him was at Pekan Lama. There are at least 20 shophouses. The best is a two rows of shops that are three stories high. The ground floor were rented out while the 1st and 2nd floor belongs to Dato Beh. Total number of shophouses affected were at elast 18 units. Dato Beh is a famous elected representative to the Kedah state assymbly.
We took some pictures and look at the bird enterance holes at the back of the shop lots.
The next that I showed was a 7 stories building located just opposite the largest Indian Temple at Pekan Lama. This tall building is owned by my SiFu and there were lots of swiftlets circling the top of it.
After snapping a few photos we continued our journey to Pekan Baru , Bakar Arang.
The first for us to visit is the pekan baru industrial estates. There were six rows of double stories factory lots. Nearly 40% of the about 100 lots were converted to birdhouses. Lots of birds circling above and lots of birdcall music in one industrial estate.
We them proceed to anew shoplot just about 5 minutes from this Pekan Baru located just beside the Sungai Muda river.
This particular row of shop houses once belongs to Caymen Island Pt. They went broke during the 1997 recession and a classmate of mine bought the land and built two rows of birdhouses.
These units looks very new and well look after with a 24 hours security guards. The enterence doors are made of solid steel.
After viewing and snapping pictures we proceed to a remote piece of land in Merbok where I showed Mr Frank a single unit, three stories high dedicated birdhouse. The unit was build by a Soya Source factory owner.
It looks good. Good hight and well designed. The height of each floor is more then 12 feet. However the unit is yet to be compleated. No electricity meter being fixed and the sound system is yet to be installed.
Mr Frank was very excited and I told him if given the options this is the most ideal birdhouse concept. U built on an agricultural piece of land, away from housing estates and local council wrath.
After snapping more pictures, I took him to my own birdhouse at Laguna Merbok area. Showed him the construction of the ground foor and upper floor.
Showed him the nests and he was very excited on the number of nests available.
Encik Frank was a satisfied birdnest tourist and with all the pictures taken he will be happy to sent some to me to be loaded onto this blogg.
More to come ....
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