What You Should Know About Using Fake Nests !!!

What do you think is so special about fake nests?

Is it so important to have them in your new house?

What is it for?

I know many who never bother to use them so why should I?

Hmm Hmm Hmmm .................

Very inteligent and provocating questions ....

I have lots of doubts that using fake nests. At one time I thought that these fake nests are redundant. I do not see it as a good contributor to my nest populations. Infact if they stays in these fake nests then the actual number of nests that I can harvest is low !!!



So Harry what is so special about having fake birdnest in your BH especially a new BH.?????

After studying in depth about the important of using Fake Nests, I am very convinced that they do play an important part in increasing a new BH birds population.

They might be useless to an old heavily populated BH but in a new BH fake nests to me is a must.

Why I believed so?

Frankly I installed myself in my BH and out of 10 four were tenanted within one short month. I was testing Pak Hen's advise. It works.



The issue here is why it works and if it works who cares what people want to say bad thing about it?

There are a few reasons why you must use these fake nests in a newly build BH.

1) Remember when you build a new BH, the main tenant will be those young birds who never have a nest built before. These young birds have yet to develop their saliva producing gland to the maximum. As such having fake nests in your new BH will in many ways helps and attract these young birds to start a family with what little that they have.

2) I observed that once a nests is occcupied and its young babies flew away, within less then 3 short weeks, there will be new eggs ready to be incubated. The mother of these new eggs can be that of the previous tenant or a new tenant (?). Having fake nests, especially laced with bird's aroma, is a sure way of attracting birds to occupy them.



3) Some of these new tenants are those that faced problem since their nests were harvested before they can lay their eggs (Nest Stealing Method). Since the female birds are already having eggs in their belly, the couple best option is to use any empty nests including the fake nest (ready made fake nest is suitable for this).

4) On many instances young birds have difficulties in finding the right spot to build their 1st nest. This might be because they are inexperience of the wood are just difficult to cling on. Fake nest provide an easy place to cling on and the petruded section of the fake nests make them easier to cling on while building their nest.

5) If you chooses the right location, where to place these fake nests, it will be surely tenanted at a much faster rate. The moment a young couple, birds, enter your new house, they will normally cling close to those tweeters. Just imagine if you place your fake nest somewhere close to these tweeters. The first thing the male will do is to investigate about who is at home in the fake nest. If the house is not habitat they will immediately make the nest as their new home.

6) Most new BH tends to have many nests build at nesting corners. This was said to be due to birds feeling more secured and less stressed. So if you place your fake nest closed to corners it make a very good sense to attract these young birds to tenant your fake nests.

7) Fake nest can be used to lure a colony to nest in a specific area of your new BH. Once the nests are occupied and those babies are gone, you can remove the fake nests and move them to a new part of your house. By doing this a new colony might move in to occupy the new area. If you keep doing this, your new BH will soon be filled with lots of birds/colonies.

8) Assuming that you plan to have another new BH, you can actually moved these used fake nests, full of those pungent aroma, to your new BH. What do you think will happen if you do so? I cannot answer you but just think ....

9) Well you might want to consider sealing these used fake nest into an air tight plastic and sell them to earn an extra income. You can easily sell them perhaps RM 100 per piece.....

There are many types of fake birdnests around. Some are made of paper, nasi lemak foam cover, styrofoam and latest are those synthetic fibre laced with aroma. Some used coconut shell to shape them. Some are made of wood.

I will go for the synthatic fibre laced with aroma as my choice. This is maily due to the fact that it can last longer and you can reused it again and again without demaging the surface area, like those of styrofoam.



They come is a pack of 10 and I fully recommend about two packs per floor.

You can put more if you wish to but you will miss the fund of moving them from one part to the other ....

PS: Just spoken to a new birdhouse owner from Johor. He was so happy to see two of this fake nests are occupied and 48 more waiting for new tenant. The fake nests were installed about two months ago and they are simply marvellous.