There are many hundred ways of increasing your birdhouse bird population.
Basically once your birdhouse is completed, operational and all the basic design features are in place you would think that you now can sit down and count the number of birds coming to stay in it.
That is what you might be thinking........
Hmm hmmmm... Well well well, I think you are right but ........
No, I think that should not be always the case.
I believed the fun have just begun ......
You are now given a task to make sure that the house will be tenanted by the wild birds and it must be as quickly as possible .......
You have to be ready with more knowledge on how to improve the house microhabitat and it surroundings.
You might need to open a log book to regularly record on what is happening from the day you open the bird entrance hole and played the birdcall music......
Every single event that happenned from that day must be properly recorded. Reason being, these informations will be very crutial in planning you next course of actions if the birds are still not coming in and stay .....
One important issue that I recommend you to look into, especially when the house is brand new, is to change the birdcall music on a regular basis (every three months).
You need to change both the internal and external in one go.
The main reason being, you want to attract as many new colonies of birds to your birdhouse every three months.
Those sound you blast into the air might means nothing or just a noise to your ears but to the birds they are a rhyzm of loves and excitements.
Those curious birds upon hearing these sound will immediately respond by searching where they come from and if you are lucky they will come into your house for inspection. If they feel good, little stress and safe to bring up their family they might eventually stays with you....
So try to change the sound at least once every three months.....
Remember this is only suitable for newbuilt birdhouses or those old houses facing bird population problem.....
If you already have a successful birdhouse, who cares and you don't need all these recomendations. You might not even need to read this stupid blog . He he he he ....
There is no full gurantee on the solution recommended but most people that have used this technique says that it helps .......
The sound selected must be proper and please make sure that your tweeters are those that do not breaks the sound into something else ......
3 comments:
Harry,
I have not changed my sound for 9 months now and have no intention of changing it in the near future.
My growth rates are still very good.
Since it ain't broken, don't fix it.
Would you agree or not?
Many thanks.
Waletandy,
You have your sound reasons for not wanting to change. As long as the bird population keep increasing at the targeted rate (minimum 0.83% a month) you can stick to your original sound. But if you do not see any growth, what are your options?
One of the recommende option is to change the sound.
What do you think will happenned when you change the birdcall sound?
Foremost they will attract those birds flying within your sound path. If your sound are not attractive enought these birds might not be bothered to come over.
If you should change to a new sound, there is a strong chance that these stubborn birds will come down.
Some people believed that swiftlets tends to live in colonies. One sound might be good for one colony but another sound might be to the other colony. So if you should rotate the sound, good sound please, you might be able to harvest all colonies that fly above your house every three months.
Hope my explaination make sense. If there are other explainations please add to this blog ....
Hi Harry,
Thanks for your explanation. It definitely make sense.
I am just wondering if the sound is right from the word go, then should we change it? Maybe it might bring negative results?
Of course if the call sounds are no good, by all means, try out new ones.
cheers.
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