Have you ever think who will eventually tenant your new birdhouse? I mean where do you think those birds are coming from?
If there are so many birdhouses around you plus the fact that there are also many natural Caves in your area, how come there will be birds coming to stay in your new birdhouse?
Oh ya lah, I never thought about that? Hmm hmmm ......... I really don't know.
Let us think for a second and find out where and what are the reasons why these birds wants to fly in and built their nests in a newly converted birdhouses:
1) Maybe there are so much food around your house and the nearest birdhouse or cave is perhaps 100 kilometers away ??? The birds, especially the young one, are lazy to fly so far to be back in where they were raised.
2) Maybe the houses around you do not have the right humidity or temperature in their house. Yours seem to be perfect. Nice temperature, humidity within range to make a good nest and the darkness is perfect. So they opt to stay in your house ..
3) What about your neighbor's birdhouse is full. There are no longer nesting planks to built their nest. So they need to find another house.
4) Then there are these houses where the owners are creating more stress to the birds. They harvest the nests not at the right timing, they spray wrong insecticides in the house, they harvest nests with young birds, they harvest nest with just one egg, they make so much noise while harvesting and so forth. So these tenant wanted to find a new house to stay.
5) What about if your neighbors birdhouse was recently harvested by a team of burgular? They take everynests that were on the wooden planks and kill all the babies? Their action upset and stress up the tenant and off they go to your birdhouse.
6) There are cases where the caves birdnests were being harvested indiscriminately by pochers. They are nothing more then a burgular. They never take into consideration of the nest generation thus leaving the bird no choice but to find a new place to stay.
7) The birdhouse, about a few kilometers away have to be taken down due to new building or torn down by the local council to make way for a new bridge or road. This will cause the birds to find a new house.
8) In cases where the surrounding are being badly affected by open burning will effect the birds population. Usually during this time of the year the birds will automatically migrate to a new area and of course to your birdhouse.
9) Migration of a colony of birds from a dry area to a wet area is another possible reason. Imagine when the dry season stretched too long, these birds have to feed their babies. No food means no nest to be build and not eggs to be laid. The best is to migrate to a wet areas.
10) Well how about your neighbor's birdhouse caught fire? Well since he used low quality electrical instruments they caught fire and the smoke smell and the trauma of affected by the fire will make them move to your house.
11) Prediators on the loose. If this should happen in any birdhouse and not being immediately tackled it will make the birds move to a safer house within the same feeding areas. If your house is in the vicinity there is a strong chances that they will pack their bags and move in with you.
12) The most important, is your birdcall sound are so soothing and enchanting that they cannot resit the temptation to drop by and make your house as their birdhouse. I wonder if their are any special sound that can make these birds let go their babies and eggs just because of the sound. Hmmmm......
I guess those are some good reasons how your new birdhouse will be populated. If U have more to add please put them in the comment coloumn......
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